Professor Claims Marriage Is A Product Of White Supremacy

 


Bethany Letiecq, a professor at George Mason university wrote an article claiming marriage and the nuclear family (that is the traditional and biblical family structure) is a product of white supremacy, [1] which is absolutely preposterous because marriage is an institution that is universal among not just whites but people of all colors, nationalities, ethnicities, cultures, and civilizations and has served to provide stability and structure for all households and ultimately for society and goes as far back as the creation of man himself and yet she is now calling for a God-made institution upon which virtually all civilizations and cultures have rested to be abolished in the name of ending white supremacy as she would have us believe that marital commitments are not needed for stable households and society and argues that households that do not consist of a heterosexual union are not any less stable than those consisting of a strong, committed heterosexual union and while she herself may not feel that she is in need of a binding union between her and her present partner, most other people are in need of a marital relationship for stability and not just for financial and material stability, but more importantly, for emotional and psychological stability because no matter how financially independent and self-sufficient anyone might be, including, women, most cannot escape the need for a lasting intimate relationship with the opposite gender as is born out in a decades long study conducted by the Stigler Center in a paper written by George J. Stigler showing that married people are more content and happy than the unmarried. [2]
 
While granted that there are some people who are content being unmarried, those people are few and far in between.  Even Letiecq herself shows herself the need for a lasting intimate relationship with someone of the opposite gender because she claims to be currently cohabitating with a male partner and raising their children together, and while she claims that they are both in a committed relationship, [3] one or both of them still do not want to be in a binding marital relationship which means one or both of them would like to be able to escape the other if the relationship becomes too much of an inconvenience or when there is no longer anything to gain from that relationship and she is not the only one who feels that way.  Many others do as well, claiming that they are in no need of marriage but at the same time, they demonstrating that they are exactly in need of just that when they involve themselves in an intimate relationship yet at the same time, they don’t want the binding commitment that requires them to place the interests of their partner above their own and to remain committed to their partner, not just when it is convenient but even when it is inconvenient, and not just when that person with whom they have the relationship is everything they have hoped for, but even when that person falls short at times.
 
People like professor Letiecq are in need of and want a lasting intimate relationship with someone, but they don’t want to accept the consequences that come with that relationship but instead they pursue relationships with only hopes for the better but without the willingness to face any consequences that may also come with that relationship because they don’t want to take responsibility for the choices that they make, but expect to be delivered from the consequences that any poor decisions they might make may bring and if they are forced to face the consequences of a poor decision, they cry “oppression” and that is exactly how professor Letiecq deems marriage: an oppressive institution because she, like many others, do not really understand for what marriage was originally intended and therefore her perception of marriage is based, not on how God intended a marital relationship between a man and a woman to be, she, like most others, view marriage from the lens of tradition, society, and culture and not just society of today, but also society, culture, and tradition in the past and whenever we build our worldview as it pertains, not just to marriage, but to anything at all for that matter, from a worldly perspective (that is from the cultural, societal, and traditional setting in which we have been brought up) instead of a biblical one, then we are going to have a faulty and misleading perspective and understanding of the world around us, of everything in it, everything taking place within it, and even of one another, which means that we will also have a misguided understanding as to what the purpose of marriage is and what is supposed to sustain one.
 
The Bible says that the reason why marriage was created---the primary reason anyway---was to remedy loneliness because we are all in need of close lasting intimate relationships and that cannot be achieved through any other relationship than marriage.  Other relationships in life can come and go, but the one constant relationship that God intended for us was the marital relationship.  We read in Genesis 2:18 that when God created the first man Adam, He said that it was not good for the man to be alone; even the animals that God had created were not suitable enough for him which is why He created the woman and He intended for the man and the woman to cleave or cling to each other in the bond of marriage and it was a bond that was never to be broken under any given circumstances (Mt. 19:6) and yet far too often marriages do sadly fail because one or both spouses don’t know how to make a marriage work in the first place or why people get married to begin with and when two people do not understand what God intended marriage to be for, they get married for all the wrong reasons and then risk getting divorced for all the wrong reasons because they choose their prospective spouse for all the wrong reasons and because of the failure of so many marriages, some people choose to avoid a binding relationship even though they are in need of a lasting intimate relationship and in order to meet that need, they will either engage in promiscuity or simply cohabitate; anything that is not binding and from which they can make an easy escape if that relationship no longer meets their satisfaction or serves their interests because of their hardened and selfish hearts.  Marriage requires a selfless commitment from not just one spouse but both and when a man and a woman commit themselves to one another in that holy and sacred bond of marriage, it is a commitment that is to last until one or both spouses should pass from this world and there should be nothing, except for death itself, that should ever dissolve that union but that union that should never be dissolved by anything except for death itself is dissolved because one or both spouses are putting their own interests ahead of the interests of one another instead of putting each other’s interests before their own and it is also for the sake of self that a binding commitment is avoided by many, it is out of wickedness that marriage has been subjected to mockery and perversion, and now, there are calls for the institution of marriage to be done away with altogether out of a resentment of boundaries.
 
Within marriage, there are boundaries set and certain principles that must be heeded in order for that marriage to be successful but man in the hardness of his heart and in his sinful nature resents boundaries and is by nature rebellious against them and in his wickedness, he calls for that which places boundaries on him to be done away with so that he can do whatever it is he please and on no other terms but his own and so that he can pursue any relationship that he chooses on his own terms as well and on no other terms and if he is not satisfied with just one partner to be intimate with, he wants to pursue multiple partners to be intimate with and all for his own pleasure and self-gratification.  The marital bond sets certain conditions and requires certain principles by which both spouses must abide in order for it to succeed, but there be those who do not wish to abide by those conditions nor by those principles and so, not only do they avoid it, but they now call for an end to it so that they can pursue their selfish, lust-filled, and wicked desires and they will use any excuse they can find to call for anything that sets limitations and boundaries to be done away with and in this particular case, racism is serving as a platform and an excuse for professor Letiecq to oppose and call for a dismantling of the institution of marriage and along with it, the family structure as we know it to be despite the fact that marriage has served well all who know how to make a marriage work regardless of the color of their skin.  The boundaries, laws, precepts, and laws that God has established for our governance are not to oppress us or make us miserable but to bring order to what would otherwise be unrestrained chaos and lawlessness, for our protection, and to restrain inwardly corrupt passions for if it were not for the inherent inward corruption which resides within man, we would not need to be governed by laws for we would by nature avoid those things that are evil and which bring needless suffering which brings me to another reason why God established marriage.  God established marriage not only as a remedy to loneliness and to supply the need for intimate companionship, but it was also established as a restraint against the sinful passions of our inwardly corrupt nature.  We were meant to be satisfied in one person for life and for all time and to not wonder from partner to partner but that is what those who take pleasure in the things of sin rather than righteousness want to do.  They want to experience intimacy in accordance to their own selfish and sinful desires instead of what God created them for and because they do not have the love and fear of God in them, they will go so far not only to avoid that which God has called good and has instituted for our benefit, but now, in the case of Letiecq, are calling for that which is good to be abolished, but it hasn’t been the first time that which was good has been called evil.  First they tried to eliminate the knowledge of our Creator from the public square and have attempted to eradicate His influence from our culture and after that, they have made permissible that which He is called evil and even demand that those things which He has called evil not only be tolerated but affirmed and celebrated and in doing so, have declared the moral standards of God to be evil and even call those who seek to abide in the moral standards of our Creator to be evil as well, and now in their disdain for the authority of their Creator, they are now beginning to call for the destruction of the sacred institution of marriage and with that the family structure as He designed it but as the prophet Isaiah warned, “Woe unto them who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!” (Is. 5:20) and the reason why that which is good is being called evil and that which is evil is being called good is because we have taken for truth that which is a lie and that which is truth for a lie and we have been taking lies for truth and truth for lies ever since the serpent deceived Eve, the first woman God had created, and then Adam, the first man whom God had also made, into eating a certain fruit that was forbidden them which resulted in a once good world in which there was no evil, no decay, no death, and no suffering, into this present world that we know today which is filled with evil, death, decay, and suffering and that same serpent who deceived our ancestors into eating that forbidden fruit is also that same spirit who is behind not only the perversion of that sacred institution of marriage but also now behind calls for it to be done away with altogether by those with hardened hearts and who in their selfishness seek out relations only if it is convenient to them, for material and financial gain, and to satisfy their sensual pleasures but without any desire for a binding commitment because they only want relationships that they can discard when it is no longer convenient for them to remain in those relationships, and when there is nothing to be gained, and perhaps even something to lose because they, in their selfishness and evil, do not know how to make a marriage work, or any lasting relationship work for that matter, but delve into it for all the wrong reasons and never weighing the cost before entering into that sacred covenant of marriage because they do not know, love or fear the God who is the forger of lasting relationships because if the fear and love of God had been in them, they would not see marriage as evil or oppressive but instead, they would see it as a sacred divine institution to be honored.  They would see it as a source of security and stability, a restrainer of inwardly corrupt passions, and a place of comfort, but only the father of lies (Jn. 8:44) would have us think otherwise for it is he who calls that which God calls good and permissible to be evil and that which God has declared to be sin and wicked to be good and therefore it should be no surprise that those who have not the love and fear of God in them should do the same and follow the ways of death and perversion and no matter how pleasurable and liberating those acts of sin and perversion may be to them, they will end in needless misery, destruction, and eternal damnation just as the disobedience of Adam and Eve, when they had eaten of that forbidden fruit had plunged the world into darkness, grief, pain, suffering, and hardship that was never needed and could have been avoided if they had only heed the waring of God to not eat that forbidden fruit.
 
When God first created this world, it was a world in which there was no evil, no death, no decay, no suffering, no hardship, and no pain, and no sorrow of any sort or degree but it was a place filled with peace, happiness, and contentment and in it existed a perfect and unhindered harmony between God, man, and nature but there was one thing that was withheld from Adam and his wife Eve from whom we all descend and that was the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which Adam and Eve were warned of God not to eat from lest they die (Gen. 2:16-17, 3:3)  but instead of heeding that warning, they instead listened to the voice of Satan who presented to them as a benefit that was being withheld from them and that if they ate of it, they would be granted enlightenment and raised to a status superior than the one in which they were created (Gen. 3:4-5) and when they believed the lie that led them to eat of that forbidden fruit, they were enlightened to nothing more than the shame of their nakedness and instead of attaining a superior status, they were reduced to a status inferior to the one in which they were made, and finally, the sentence of death was pronounced upon them as they were warned (Gen. 3:19) to which they eventually succumbed but the consequences of their disobedience did not stop with them but extended to the rest of mankind for the sin that entered into Adam and Eve and brought eventual death to them was then passed down from them to all of mankind and since we are all descended from Adam and Eve, we have also inherited from them that inwardly corrupt condition of our nature (Rom. 5:12) which the Bible calls sin and this inherited inwardly corrupt condition of our nature does not just affect our actions, behavior, or the words that we speak, but it darkens our hearts, perverts our thoughts, and corrupts our motives which is why it is written that we are defiled by the things from without, but that which is from within (Mt. 15:11, 17-20) and it is the defilement from within that brings death to us all which is why it is written that the wages of sin is death (Rom. 6:23) and not only are we subjected to death because of sin but the entire creation itself is also subject to a curse because of sin (Rom. 8:19-22) which is why we live in a world in which death, decay, pain, and suffering abound and it is all due to one act of disobedience committed by our first two ancestors but worse even still, that act of disobedience gave Satan justification to claim lordship over the nations, peoples, kingdoms, and empires of the earth (Mt. 4:8-9, Lk. 4:6-7) thereby diminishing the dominion over the earth that had once been given to Adam (Gen. 1:26) and worst of all, our sin causes estranges us from our Creator because that which is in sin cannot dwell in the direct presence of He who is without sin and is holy which is all who die in their sin cannot enter the Kingdom of God lest their sin should defile the Kingdom of God the way it has defiled the earth but because God is not willing that any should perish but that all would come to repentance (2 Pet. 3:9) God has provided redemption in one man in whom there is no sin (2 Cor. 5:21, Heb. 4:15) and who came to us as God in the flesh, being in the form of a man (John 1:14) to take away the sins of the world and the one who came into this world to purchase redemption on behalf of sinful man is none other than Jesus Christ our Lord, Savior, Maker, and King, who being without sin, was made eligible to be that perfect and unblemished sacrifice (Heb. 7:26-27) that was needed to take away our sins which was done through His death on the cross upon which He was crucified and after having purchased with His blood our redemption, was raised again from the dead for our justification (Rom. 4:25) so that any calling upon Him for the forgiveness of sins in sincere faith and repentance would be justified before God the Father by Him and in Him.
 
By a lie did sin come into the world and with it the death, decay, suffering, and pain that we both witness and experience but He who is the way, the truth, and the life (Jn. 14:6) has promised to liberate us from the death, decay, suffering, and pain that came into the world because of sin and that liberation has begun with the redemption of our souls for with the redemption of our souls comes a transformation (2 Cor. 5:17) that causes us to no longer desire to follow after selfish and worldly pursuits but after those things that pertain to the Kingdom of Heaven, (Mt. 6:33)
to no longer take pleasure in those things that are evil and displeasing in the sight of the Lord, but in that which is good, right, and pleasing in His sight,
to no longer desire to walk in the lies of this present world, but only in the truth that comes from Christ Almighty, (Jn. 14:6) no longer placing our hopes in the things of this present world, but looking forward to that new and better world to come, (Rev. 21-22)
to no longer rely on worldly resources, men, or even our own power, abilities, skills, and wisdom for our needs and provision but upon God who is able to meet all of our needs, (Mt. 6:25-33) recognizing that the resources of this world and even the people He brings into our lives are but instruments and vessels through which God meets our needs and that the skills, power, knowledge, and wisdom by which we might acquire our provision are provided and instilled in us by God,
to no longer fear what men can do to us, but rather fearing the God before whom we will have to one day give an account for how we lived our lives, (Mt. 10:28)
to no longer look to corruptible institutions within our society for direction and order in our lives but to God who, by His written Word has given us laws and precepts to be applied to our lives and which serve to produce and maintain an ordered life, and who, by His Holy Spirit which comes to dwell within us upon repentance, establishes in our lives a course and direction in our lives to pursue for His glory,
to no longer seek our own glory but the glory of God,
to no longer rally behind corruptible men, but instead behind the incorruptible God in Heaven bearing in mind that those men and women God raises up for our edification are but instruments and servants of His for that respective purpose to which He has called them,
to no longer seek to align ourselves with the things of darkness but only with the things of the light,
to no longer trust in the wisdom of the world but only on the wisdom and knowledge that comes from above, nor depend on corruptible earthly authorities to swiftly administer justice, but only in the power of God to deliver us from evil.
 
And we look forward to the day that, just as our souls have been redeemed and delivered from eternal damnation, when we shall also be delivered from bodily death when that which is sinful is made sinless and that which is corruptible is transformed into that which is incorruptible (1 Cor. 15:51-55, 1 Thess. 4:13-18) for wherein dwells no sin there is no death and finally, creation itself will also be liberated from the curse that has come upon it because of sin, when Satan who is the adversary of our souls and is that thief who comes to steal, kill, and destroy (Jn. 10:10) is given his final sentence and cast into eternal damnation along with all who have sided with him (Rev. 20:10-15) and after that, the creation will then be made anew, and it will be a creation in which there will dwell no death, no decay, no evil, no darkness, no grief, no sorrow, and no misery, and no hardship, but only light, life, happiness, peace, contentment, and joy before the Lord God Almighty for all eternity. (Rev. 21-22)
If you have not done so already and would like to be a part of world in which dwells no evil, no death, and no suffering of any sort but in which there is only life, light, peace, joy, love, happiness, harmony, and contentment then I urge you reader to call upon the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins and your place in that Kingdom will be assured.  It is but a prayer of sincere faith and repentance away:
 
 
 
"Lord Jesus I need you.
 
 
I realize that I am a sinner
who has fallen short of the glory of God
and that my goodness falls short
of your standard of Moral perfection.
 
Please forgive me of all of my sins.
Come into my heart and into my life
to be the Savior and Lord of my life.
Make me into the servant and follower
that you want me to be.
In your name Lord Jesus, I pray.
 
 
Amen."
 
 
Know that God is not concerned with the words that you use to call upon Him forgiveness, but with the attitude of your heart and if you have, with all sincerity, have asked Christ to forgive you of your sins, placing your trust in Him only for your salvation and in nothing else, then your sins are forgiven and your place in Heaven is certain.
 
 
 
 
End notes:
 
 
 
1.  Kendall Tietz, “Marriage promotes 'White supremacy,' according to White university professor,” Fox News, March 15, 2024
https://www.foxnews.com/media/marriage-promotes-white-supremacy-university-professor
 
2.  George J. Stigler, “The Socio Political Demography of Happiness,” Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, October 2, 2023
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4508123
 
3.  Bethany L. Letiecq, “Theorizing White heteropatriarchal supremacy, marriage fundamentalism, and the mechanisms that maintain family inequality,” Journal Of Marriage And Family, pg. 1185 Volume 86, Issue 5, January 11, 2024
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jomf.12971
 
 
 
Scripture references:
 
 
 
1.  Genesis 2:18
 
2.  Matthew 19:6
 
3.  Isaiah 5:20
 
4.  John 8:44
 
5.  Genesis 2:16-17, 3:3
 
6.  Genesis 3:4-5
 
7.  Genesis 3:19
 
8.  Romans 5:12
 
9.  Matthew 15:11, 17-20
 
10.  Romans 6:23
 
11.  Romans 8:19-22
 
12.  Matthew 4:8-9, Luke 4:6-7
 
13.  2 Peter 3:9
 
14.  John 1:14
 
15.  2 Corinthians 5:21, Hebrews 4:15
 
16.  Hebrews 7:26-27
 
17.  Romans 4:25
 
18.  Romans 10:13
 
19.  John 14:6
 
20.  2 Corinthians 5:17
 
21.  Matthew 6:33
 
22.  Revelation 21-22
 
23.  Matthew 6:25-33
 
24.  Matthew 10:28
 
25.  1 Corinthians 15:51-55, 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
 
26.  John 10:10
 
27.  Revelation 20:10-15