Nation of Bastards: Essays on the End of Marriage

Nation of Bastards: Essays on the End of Marriage"Erudite and impassioned an act of faith and of resistance to the insidious claims of the post Christian and post liberal state." "F. C. Decoste, Professor of Law, University of Alberta" "A brilliant expos of the implications of same sex marriage and a compelling analysis of what it will take for society to reclaim the birthright of freedom it has lost in a reckless social experiment." To some, same sex marriage is evidence that society has finally

"Erudite and impassioned - an act of faith and of resistance to the insidious claims of the post-Christian and post-liberal state."
"F. C. Decoste, Professor of Law, University of Alberta"
"A brilliant expos of the implications of same-sex marriage - and a compelling analysis of what it will take for society to reclaim the birthright of freedom it has lost in a reckless social experiment."
To some, same-sex marriage is evidence that society has finally come of age. To others, it is yesterday's issue, posing no danger to traditional marriage. To still others - McGill University's Douglas Farrow among them - it has turned civil society on its ear, creating a new political situation in which several things are no longer clear:
. Is the state the property of the citizenry? Or are citizens, with their cherished personal associations, including marriage, now the property of the state?
. Who "owns" the children, now that natural parenthood had been replaced by legal parenthood?
. Is the family still "the natural and fundamental group unit of society," as the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" claims? Or is the concept of the "natural" moribund?
. What is marriage for, anyway?
Douglas Farrow is associate professor of Christian Thought at McGill University in Montreal. He is the editor of "Recognizing Religion in a Secular Society " and co-editor, with Daniel Cere, of "Divorcing Marriage."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: BPS Books
Published: 09/01/2007
ISBN: 9780978440244
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.31d