What Does Doug Wilson Believe?

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Parents Should Disinherit Children Who Marry Non-Christians

If he marries outside the covenant, i.e., he marries a non-Christian, he ought to be disinherited.

In Douglas Wilson’s own words: 1 quote from 2001, from Future Men: Raising Boys to Fight Giants, cited to the source.

Of course, a fundamental aspect of family government remains even when a son is grown, has taken a wife, and has established a household of his own. The ultimate sanction that family government has is that of disinheritance. Just as the church excommunicates, and the civil magistrate executes, so a family has the authority to disinherit. If a son deserts the faith, he ought to be disinherited. If he marries outside the covenant, i.e., he marries a non-Christian, he ought to be disinherited.

— Douglas Wilson, Future Men: Raising Boys to Fight Giants, Canon Press, 2001, Chapter 17: “Courtship and Betrothal”