Author: Fred Smith HallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marriage law
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
American Marriage Laws in Their Social Aspects
Author: Fred Smith HallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marriage law
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
What Is Marriage?
Author: Sherif GirgisPublisher: Encounter Books
ISBN: 1641771488
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
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.
The Western Case for Monogamy Over Polygamy
Author: John WittePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110710159X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 551
Book Description
This volume documents the Western historical arguments for monogamy over polygamy, from antiquity to the present.
Journal of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology
Author: The Journal of Social Forces
Author: University of Pennsylvania Law Review and American Law Register
Author: University of Pennsylvania Law Review
Author: Bureau Publication ...
Author: Social Problems and Education
Author: Ernest Rutherford GrovesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Book Bulletin of the Chicago Public Library
Author: Chicago Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description