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34 Harv. J. L. & Pub. Pol'y 245 (2011)
What is Marriage

handle is hein.journals/hjlpp34 and id is 251 raw text is: WHAT IS MARRIAGE? SHERIF GIRGIs,* ROBERT P. GEORGE,** & RYAN T. ANDERSON- I . ............................................................................... 2 4 8 A. Equality, Justice, and the Heart of the D ebate .................................................. 248 B. Real Marriage Is-And Is Only-The Union of Husband and Wife ....................... 252 1. Comprehensive Union ........................... 253 2. Special Link to Children ........................ 255 3. Marital Norms ......................................... 259 C. How Would Gay Civil Marriage Affect You or Your Marriage? .................... 260 1. Weakening Marriage .............................. 260 2. Obscuring the Value of Opposite-Sex Parenting As an Ideal ............................. 262 3. Threatening Moral and Religious Freedom ................................................... 263 D. If Not Same-Sex Couples, Why Infertile Ones? ...................................... 265 1. Still Real Marriages ................................. 266 2. Still in the Public Interest ....................... 268 E. Challenges for Revisionists .......................... 269 1. The State Has an Interest in Regulating Some Relationships? .......... 269 2. Only if They Are Romantic? .................. 271 3. Only if They Are Monogamous? .......... 272 F. Isn't Marriage Just Whatever W e Say It Is? ................................................... 274 II ................................................................................ 2 7 5 * Ph.D. Candidate in Philosophy, Princeton University. ** McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University. *** Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, University of Notre Dame.

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