What is the state interest in marriage? Why does the state even care about who marries whom? What is marriage? Why are so-called “nondiscrimination” bills a threat to first freedoms such as freedom of speech and religion? Sutherland Institute President Paul Mero answers these and other questions in his address at the First Freedoms Forum at Thanksgiving Point. [Note: After my separation from Sutherland Institute on August 15, 2014, all of my work posted online throughout my 14 years there was “bleached” without explanation from the Institute website. This was among them. This is my copy. I had to compress the size of the talk to upload it here. Thank you for your patience.]
