The collection is a timely work that presents the history and theory of marriage in a cogent manner that makes discussing marriage policy not only possible, but can provide a framework for actually coming to a serious policy other than the typical libertarian “do-whatever-you-want” nonsense that ends up going nowhere.
The essays:
- "Sacrilege and Sacrament," by Roger Scruton
- "What About the Children? Liberal Cautions on Same- Sex Marriage," by Don Browning
- "Changing Dynamics of the Family in Recent European History," by Harold James
- "Why Unilateral Divorce Has No Place in a Free Society," by Jennifer Roback Morse
- "The Framers' Idea of Marriage and Family," by David F. Forte
- "The Family and the Laws," by Hadley Arkes
- "What's Sex Got to do with It? Marriage, Morality, and Rationality," by Robert P. George
- "Soft Despotism and Same-Sex Marriage," by Seana Sugrue
- "(How) Does Marriage Protect Child Well-Being?" by Maggie Gallagher
- "The Current Crisis in Marriage Law, Its Origins, and Its Impact," by Katherine Shaw Spaht
- "Suffer the Little Children: Marriage the Poor, and the Commonweal" by W. Bradford Wilcox
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Article comments
1 - jstephenclark
Although the author of this review attempts to claim some scholarly authority by disingenuously describing himself as "an academic professional for the University of Illinois," he is nothing more than a computer programmer with undergraduate degrees in physics and astronomy. Indeed, he describes himself on a university webpage as "an [sic] research programmer at the University of Illinois and an independent security consultant." In other words, he has no expertise whatsoever in this subject--unless he's been studying gay Martians, gay subatomic particles, or gay computer operating systems--nor is he a scholar. As his own website makes clear, he is simply a right-wing activist. And the book he reviews is just a collection of standard right-wing propaganda by the usual anti-gay suspects.
2 - John Bambenek
The title for a non-faculty staff person at the University of Illinois *is* Academic Professional. That's just what we're called there.
You're opinion that only people you recognize with people that have approved positions should be the only ones allowed to speak is noted.
3 - Jacob
That was a good laugh. Neeext.
4 - rodian and daivin
our comment about your book or article is we cannot really understand your article because it is not really stated what is marriage.............
5 - coffee drinker
Saw the author of this book on Morning Joe this morning. Very fundie and anti-gay in nature. He seems to have some time-honored principles for permanence in marriage but have to take it with a grain of salt. It is what it is.