Dr Barend Vlaardingerbroek is Associate Professor of Education at the American University of Beirut. He has academic qualifications in education, science, arts/humanities and law.
The legal recognition of new gender identities will further distance marriage from the natural family unit.
Date posted: 2014-06-08
The claim that same-sex marriage is a basic human right finds no support in international human rights declarations.
Date posted: 2014-05-04
When marriage laws are amended to bring same-sex couples within their ambit, those couples become subject to the existing restrictions imposed by blood and family ties (consanguinity and affinity) which forbid people from marrying someone too close to them.
Date posted: 2013-12-04