Acknowledgments A Marriage Proposal Defining Marriage The State Now Joins in Marriage What the Church Joins Together A Conflict of Goals The Church, Civil Rights, and Civil Rites The Christian Family: What's Really at Stake? The Road Ahead Notes Taking Biblical Marriage Seriously Reason and Marital Choice What's Love Got to Do With It? The Covenant and Marriage The Choice of Death or Life in Non-Sexual Relationships The Choice of Death or Life in Sexual Relationships Notes Christian Attitudes Toward Homosexuality and Same-Sex Marriage The Family in Pluralistic America No-Fault Divorce and the Decline of Civil Marriage Christians and the Law of Civil Marriage Marriage is for Heterosexuals From Bowers v. Hardwick to Lawrence v. Texas The Inevitably Slippery Slope Argument from the Procreation and Child-Rearing Perspective Notes Liberalism, Homosexuality and Same-Sex Marriage Constitutional and Legal Semantics The Equal Opportunity of Love--the Need for Intimacy and Commitment The Modern Biblical Approach Legal Benefits of Marriage Notes The Right to Rites for Left and Right Christianity, Enlightenment Liberalism, and Marriage Has the Church Sold Out? After Disestablishment, Then What? Conclusion Notes Bibliography.
The Abolition of Marriage : Freeing the Right to Be Religious and Leaving the Left Alone