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The Politicization of Marriage: Nussbaum, George, and Rowe on the Gay Marriage Question

August 7th, 2009 | 3 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

Martha Nussbaum's recent defense of homosexual marriage in Dissent Magazine is one of the better defenses of homosexual marriage that I have read, and I suggest slogging through the whole thing.  But it is, perhaps, most valuable for revealing that the debate turns upon whether marriage is fundamentally constituted by the volitional agreement of two individuals or something deeper.

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Matthew Lee Anderson

Matthew Lee Anderson is an Associate Professor of Ethics and Theology in Baylor University's Honors College. He has a D.Phil. in Christian Ethics from Oxford University, and is a Perpetual Member of Biola University's Torrey Honors College. In 2005, he founded Mere Orthodoxy.