Divorcing Love and Marriage from Organized Religion

Nov 3, 2023

Marriage, family, and domestic bliss are popular topics of discussion and debate in the United States. Thanks to the battles about marriage equality, the nuclear family, divorce rates, the rise of feminism, and conservative Christian insistence that traditional marriage is the bedrock of society, the discourse around intimate relationships is fraught with social, religious, and moral notions of love.

Further, conservatives such as the new Republican House Speaker in particular, have used scriptural views of family and marriage as cover for homophobia and transphobia.

Now, clinical psychologist Enrico Gnaulati brings decades of experience, both professional and personal, to readers in a new book about sustaining long-term relationships while rejecting organized religion鈥檚 view of morality. Gnaulati spoke with 猫咪社区! Racial Justice Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on 猫咪社区 Presents: Rising Up With Sonali about .

Sonali Kolhatkar joined 猫咪社区! in summer 2021, building on a long and decorated career in broadcast and print journalism. She is an award-winning multimedia journalist, and host and creator of聽猫咪社区! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali, a nationally syndicated television and radio program airing on Free Speech TV and dozens of independent and community radio stations. She is also Senior Correspondent with the Independent Media Institute鈥檚 Economy for All project where she writes a weekly column. She is the author of聽Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice聽(2023) and聽Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence聽(2005). Her forthcoming book is called聽Talking About Abolition聽(Seven Stories Press, 2025). Sonali is co-director of the nonprofit group, Afghan Women鈥檚 Mission which she helped to co-found in 2000. She has a Master鈥檚 in Astronomy from the University of Hawai鈥檌, and two undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. Sonali reflects on 鈥淢y Journey From Astrophysicist to Radio Host鈥� in her 2014聽聽of the same name.