What is marriage?
Subtitle: man and woman : a defense
By: by Sherif Girgis, Robert P. George, and Ryan T. Anderson
Contributors: George, Robert P.; Anderson, Ryan T., 1981-
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9781594036224; 9781594036231
Subjects: Marriage law; Marriage; Civil marriage
Description: Until yesterday, 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 is unnecessary, unreasonable, and contrary to the common good.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Comprehensive union; title: The state and marriage; title: What's the harm?; title: Challenges to revisionists; title: Justice and equality; title: A cruel bargain?; title: Conclusion.