What Is Marriage?

MOJ readers will recall the important article-turned-book:  What Is Marriage?  Man and Woman:  A Defense (2012), by Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson, and MOJ’s Robert P. George.  Andrew Koppelman, in an article in a forthcoming issue of the University of Illinois Law Review—an article in which in he criticizes the book—has described the book as “the leading statement of the case against same-sex marriage . . .”  (The Koppelman article is here.) University of St. Thomas law prof Chuck Reid has just posted, over at ReligiousLeftLaw, some comments on the central argument of the book.  The comments begin with this:  “Does love make a marriage?  Or does sex?  And if sex makes a marriage, then what kind of sex?  These were central themes of a debate I participated in at the University of Notre Dame on November 9th, where I discussed these questions with two proponents of a highly traditional understanding of the marriage relationship, Ryan Anderson and Sherif Girgis.”  Reid’s comments are available in full here.