Overview
Originally published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, this bookās core argument quickly became the yearās 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 groundānoneāfor 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 peopleās needs; that it canāt show the harm of recognizing same-sex couplings or the point of recognizing infertile ones; and that it treats a mere āsocial constructā as if it were natural or an unreasoned religious view as if it were rational.
This book title, What Is Marriage? (Man and Woman: A Defense), ISBN: 9781641771474, by Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson, Robert P. George, published by Encounter Books (July 21, 2020) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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