The Marriage Files.

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A new book, entitled “The Marriage Files”, argues that the introduction of same-sex 'marriage' is the culmination of a long political, economic and legal process in which marriage has been progressively diluted and dismantled.
 Author Patricia Morgan emphasises that for decades the "married family" has been under concerted attack with the result of “multiple and mounting disadvantages of marital decline and family fragmentation”. 
Marriage diluted
She describes how marriage has been “castigated by academics, mocked by media and targeted by demolitionists” leading to marriage being “legally diluted and penalised by fiscal and welfare policy”.
“With the political classes generally averse or hostile, it has deserved little or no support or protection. For Labour and Liberal Democrat it has been something to demolish. Tories have side-lined it out of embarrassment, generally discriminated against it and raided it to resource other priorities,” she says.
Fathers lost from homes
The author argues that while same-sex 'marriage' completely broke with age-old understandings of marriage, “marriage itself, parenthood and child-rearing were already being eased apart and fathers progressively lost from homes, as the self-sufficient or stand-alone mother largely became the focus of policies affecting families”.  She emphasises that “a fundamental task of marriage has always been to make a father” but if it is deemed that children do not ‘need’ one, “then marriage is superfluous to how children are born and raised”.
Patricia is highly critical of the political urgency to introduce same-sex 'marriage': “Proposals for same-sex marriage appeared in no party’s manifesto. It was not a response to the general will or popular demand, or a matter of general welfare or benefit.  There was no struggle, no mass protests. The passing of civil partnership legislation had been replete with emphatic announcements that this was not a gateway to SSM and had been passed on the understanding that marriage would be unaffected. All lies.”
"Homophobic"
In an interview with Christian Concern, Patricia Morgan stresses that those who raise legitimate concerns about the negative effects of homosexual lifestyles should not be labelled as “homophobic”. Christian Concern.