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What Is Marriage? - Man and Woman: A Defense (Paperback)
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What Is Marriage? - Man and Woman: A Defense (Paperback)
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Loot Price R341
Discovery Miles 3 410
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Until very recently, no society had seen marriage as anything other
than a conjugal partnership: a male-female union. What Is Marriage?
identifies and defends the reasons for this historic consensus and
shows why redefining civil marriage as something other than the
conjugal union of husband and wife is a mistake. Originally
published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, this
book's core argument quickly became the year's most widely read
essay on the most prominent scholarly network in the social
sciences. Since then, it has been cited and debated by scholars and
activists throughout the world as the most formidable defense of
the tradition ever written. Now revamped, expanded, and vastly
enhanced, What Is Marriage? stands poised to meet its moment as few
books of this generation have. Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson, and
Robert P. George offer a devastating critique of the idea that
equality requires redefining marriage. They show why both sides
must first answer the question of what marriage really is. They
defend the principle that marriage, as a comprehensive union of
mind and body ordered to family life, unites a man and a woman as
husband and wife, and they document the social value of applying
this principle in law. Most compellingly, they show that those who
embrace same-sex civil marriage leave no firm ground-none-for not
recognizing every relationship describable in polite English,
including polyamorous sexual unions, and that enshrining their view
would further erode the norms of marriage, and hence the common
good. Finally, What Is Marriage? decisively answers common
objections: that the historic view is rooted in bigotry, like laws
forbidding interracial marriage; that it is callous to people's
needs; that it can't show the harm of recognizing same-sex
couplings or the point of recognizing infertile ones; and that it
treats a mere "social construct" as if it were natural or an
unreasoned religious view as if it were rational.
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