![]() ![]() Rhodes Scholar Sherif Girgis, Princeton University professor Robert P. If the marriage debate in America is decided in the next few years, it will be either with this book's help, or despite its powerful arguments. Now expanded to address a flurry of prominent responses, What Is Marriage? stands poised to meet its moment as few books of this generation have. ![]() 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 of more than 300,000 scholarly articles posted on the Social Sciences Research Network. ![]() It defeats the arguments for recognizing same-sex partnerships as marriages and shows how doing so would harm the common good. With clear and cogent arguments, What Is Marriage? explains the rational basis of this historic consensus. Until just yesterday, no society-monogamous or polygamous-had defined marriage as anything other than a male-female union. ![]()
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