Sherif Girgis Quotes

#1. As we deprive marriage policy of definite shape, we deprive it of public purpose.

Sherif Girgis

#2. ordinary friendships simply do not affect the common good in structured ways that could justify legal regulation.

Sherif Girgis

#3. Thus, again, marriage is comprehensive in some basic ways, not in every sense. But the same holds of most revisionists' master principle: a spouse cannot be your "number one partner" in every activity, or your "soul-mate" in every domain.

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#4. Finally, promoting conjugal marriage need not and should not involve prohibiting any consensual relationship. For all these reasons, libertarians should favor the regulation of marriage-which is, again, practically inevitable anyway.

Sherif Girgis

#5. As the family weakens, our welfare and correctional bureaucracies grow.

Sherif Girgis

#6. If marriage is centrally an emotional union, rather than one inherently ordered to family life, it becomes much harder to show why the state should concern itself with marriage any more than with friendship. Why involve the state in what amounts to the legal regulation of tenderness?

Sherif Girgis