What does it mean to "redefine" marriage?

About this sermon

http://www.catholic.com/ Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D. answers a caller who claims that allowing homosexuals to marry will not effect the overall institution of marriage. Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D. is the founder and president of the Ruth Institute, a project of the National Organization for Marriage to promote life-long married love to college students by creating an intellectual and social climate favorable to marriage. She is also the Senior Research Fellow in Economics at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty. She is the author of Smart Sex: Finding Life-long Love in a Hook-up World (2005), Love and Economics: Why the Laissez-Faire Family Doesn't Work (2001), recently reissued in paperback, and Love and Economics: It Takes a Family to Raise a Village. Dr. Morse served as a Research Fellow for Stanford University's Hoover Institution from 1997-2005. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Rochester in 1980 and spent a postdoctoral year at the University of Chicago during 1979-1980. She taught economics at Yale University and George Mason University for 15 years. She was John M. Olin visiting scholar at the Cornell Law School in fall 1993. She is a regular contributor to the National Review Online, National Catholic Register, Town Hall, MercatorNet and To the Source. Dr. Morse's scholarly articles have appeared in the Journal of Political Economy, Economic Inquiry, the Journal of Economic History, Publius: the Journal of Federalism, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Social Philosophy and Policy, The Independent Review, and The Notre Dame Journal of Law Ethics and Public Policy. In April 2008, Dr. Morse presented at the Harvard conference, "The Legacy and Future of Feminism." In July 2006, Dr. Morse was one of the few Americans who lectured at the Fifth Annual Meeting of Families in Valencia Spain, sponsored by the Pontifical Council on the Family. Dr. Morse lectured in Rome in April 1997 and in January 2006 at Acton Institute conferences celebrating the Papal encyclical, Centesimus Annus. Her public policy articles have appeared in Forbes, Policy Review, The American Enterprise, Fortune, Reason, the Wall Street Journal, Vital Speeches, and Religion and Liberty. She currently lives in San Diego, CA. She and her husband are the parents of a birth child and an adopted child. From March 2003 to August 2006, Dr. Morse and her husband were foster parents for San Diego County. During that time, they cared for a total of eight foster children.

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• Marriage