Marriage Under Fire

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Marriage Under Fire: Why We Must Win This Battle is a book by Dr. James Dobson, published by Multnomah Publishers, Inc. (Sisters, Oregon) in July 2004.

Beginning with a vignette told of his early years married to Shirley, Marriage Under Fire informs readers of Dobson's views of traditional marriage. Dobson suggests that falling heterosexual marriage rates in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway are due to the recognition of same-sex relationships by political leaders in those countries in the 1990s (pp. 8-9), and claims that traditional marriage "is rapidly dying" in these countries as a result, with "most couples cohabiting or choosing to remain single" and illegitimacy rates rising in some areas of Norway up to 80%.

Of heterosexual marriage, Dobson has written that "every civilization in the world has been built upon it" (p. 7). He describes the instititution of marriage as "the bedrock of culture in Asia, Africa, Europe, North America, South America, Australia, and even Antarctica" (p. 8). Dobson argues that homosexuality is curable. Railing against "the realities of judicial tyranny," Dobson writes "[t]here is no issue today that is more significant to our culture than the defense of the family. Not even the war on terror eclipses it" (pp. 84-85).