Product Description

Why shouldn't the definition of family be broadened and modernized? What harm could be done by two consenting adults who love one another coming together to create a binding union? In this succinct analysis of the issue, Dr. James Dobson presents a compelling case against the legalization of "marriage" between homosexuals, and the dire ramifications our nation could face:

• Same-sex marriage will destroy the fundamental principles of marriage, parenthood, and gender.
• Families will be increasingly unstable as their definition expands to incorporate multiple "moms" or "dads."
• Legalization of gay marriages will lead to polygamy and other alternatives to one-man/one-woman unions.
• The divorce rate will be even higher, making our children less safe.

Marriage Under Fire provides the foundations of a battle plan for the preservation of traditional values in our nation. Our response could not be clearer. The well-being of the family, and thus our nation, hangs in the balance. Now is the time to speak out in defense of marriage and the family.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #650742 in Books
• Published on: 2007-04-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 128 pages

About the Author
James C. Dobson, Ph.D., is founder and chairman of Focus on the Family, a nonprofit organization that produces his internationally syndicated radio programs, heard by more than 200 million people every day. He is seen on 80 television stations daily in the U.S. A licensed psychologist and licensed marriage, family, and child counselor, he is a clinical member of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and is listed in Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare. Dr. Dobson is married to Shirley and is the father of two grown children, Danae and Ryan. He resides in Colorado.

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Customer Reviews

Christian Values under Fire?
I am in full agreement with the thesis of this book. Dr. Dobson's arguments that there is a certain segment of the American population hostile to the values taught in the Bible are accurate. This is preaching to the choir type book. Only individuals who have distaste for today's American culture will find themselves in agreement with arguments in this book. This book is a presentation moral attitudes of the persons occupying the United States are heading for the toilet. More important it is an argument that certain political forces are contributing to this countries moral decade. Forces in this country are colluding together to force social standards antichristian in nature down people's throats. Those who dissent to the ideas and values of James Dobson argue it is the Evangelical Christians doing this. This book is a call for political involvement and to be expressive to what offends in the public schools and government institutions.


I find Erin V. Lutzer book titled The Truth About Same-Sex Marriage a more rounded presentation of Christian opposition to same -Sex marriage, the Christian social life and loving the sinner not the sin.

A Heterosexist Political Manifesto
The book is a call to arms for those sympathetic to Evangelical Christian types of heterosexism - the view that heterosexuality is superior to all other sexual orientations - to pass the Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA), which would define marriage, constitutionally speaking, as a union between one woman and one man.

The book succeeds in presenting a worldview that is very internally consistent. Traditional marriage, Dobson alleges, is good for couples, their children, and society. Those on the Left have tried to change the institution of marriage by various measures such as no-fault divorce, and deleterious effects - from a Christian point of view - have followed. Legalizing same-sex marriage, so the argument goes, is the next step in a logical progression to subvert traditional marriage and possibly even to destroy the entire institution. Despite the claims of those sympathetic to gay rights, gay marriage signals the end of society (as certain segments of the Evangelical Right would have it) and is not an equality or civil rights issue at all, according to Dobson.

The problem with the book is that some of it sounds unpalatably hateful. Dobson cites ridiculous studies suggesting that every gay person regularly has 1000+ sexual partners, and in citing this he hopes to show that gay parenting inherently entails an unstable situation for the child(ren). One of the reasons to oppose gay marriage is that the gays who pay into Social Security and other social programs could benefit from them through spousal benefits. Dobson thinks the source of gays' suffering is not that they're subject to hateful legislation and violence of the physical and psychological varieties but rather because they simply need to be changed into heterosexuals. An obvious parallel presents itself: Blacks living under Jim Crow weren't unhappy because they were being lynched and denied voting rights but because they weren't White. Dobson tries hard but unsuccessfully to avoid the obvious parallels between racism (and anti-miscegenation laws) on the one hand and his heterosexism on the other; as his evidence, he says that certain Black conservative leaders don't see the parallel and that anti-miscegenation laws were meant to keep the races separate which is a different goal from FMA. The obvious rejoinders are 1) Who cares that certain Black people don't see the parallels; why are they - or any Black people - the authorities to consult in the first place? 2) Anti-miscegenation laws were made because certain Whites saw themselves as superior to other races and sought to protect their racial superiority by keep their race 'pure,' and FMA is a similar expression of superiority.

Obviously, I'm not a supporter of Dobson's message, but for those who agree with or are interested by such things, it's a slightly outdated manifesto (FMA is no longer on the table) that can acquaint one with Dobson's and Focus on the Family's ideology.

The only thing on "fire" is Dobson's pants.
This book stands for everything that is NOT of God and Dobson's God definitely does not need to make secular laws. I hope all who read this garbage will see through this man who makes millions off of your fear and his hate.