THE PILL MADE SAME-SEX NUPTIALS INEVITABLE

By Donald Sensing

Same-sex marriage is not the cause of marriage's decline—it's the result.

The real turning point came 40 years ago—with the birth control pill.

For the first time, sex could be fully delinked from procreation. Premarital chastity lost its biological imperative. Men no longer needed marriage for sex; women discovered sex didn't guarantee commitment.

Consequences:

• Marriage rate ↓ 43% since 1960

• Cohabitation ↑ 1,000%

• Over half of marriages now begin with cohabitation

Once society stopped regulating heterosexual conduct, the logic for barring homosexual unions collapsed.

"Weddings became symbolic—not substantive. They're now about property rights, not permission to procreate."

Sensing concludes (as a Christian traditionalist): "Same-sex marriage won't destroy marriage. It's the final symptom of its prior collapse."