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The best way today to protect traditional marriage is through its abolition as a civil institution. Civil marriage laws must be replaced with civil unions in order for everyone, regardless of their sexual orientation, to enjoy equal rights, both with respect to government benefits as well as religious freedom.
List of contents
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
About the author
Kevin T. Holton is an instructor in the Political Science Department at South Texas College.
Summary
The best way today to protect traditional marriage is through its abolition as a civil institution. Civil marriage laws must be replaced with civil unions in order for everyone, regardless of their sexual orientation, to enjoy equal rights, both with respect to government benefits as well as religious freedom.
