The professor claims White people receive 'benefits, rights and protections' from marriage 'fundamentalism.'
by JACKSON WALKER | The National DeskBethany Letiecq Letiecq’s paper claims Americans have become accustomed to marriage fundamentalism to allow White people “benefits, rights and protections.”
Letiecq begins the piece by noting “as a White, cisgender woman, I am currently living with my partner and co-raising our children in a committed heterosexual union outside the institution of marriage.” She continues, noting the origins of both White supremacy and marriage before explaining how each became favored by religious conservatives.
Marriage fundamentalism, the scholar claims, has roots in Manifest Destiny and colonialism, leading to the “delegitimization of diverse family and kinship structures.” Due to the amount of non-traditional living arrangements of LGBT families and “grandparents rearing their grandchildren,” the nuclear family is actually the least common living situation in the country, the scholar said.
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