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What God Has Joined Together The Christian Case for Gay Marriage

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ISBN-10: 0060834544

ISBN-13: 9780060834548

Edition: N/A

Authors: David G. Myers, Letha Dawson Scanzoni

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Gay marriage has become the most important domestic social issue facing twenty-first-century Americans -- particularly Americans of faith. Most Christians are pro-marriage and hold traditional family values, but should they endorse extending marriage rights to gays and lesbians? If Jesus enjoined us to love our neighbors as ourselves, and the homosexual is our neighbor, does that mean we should accept and bless gay marriages? These and other, related questions are tearing many faith-based communities apart. Across the country, states have voted, courts have debated, and churches have divided over the legitimacy of same-sex marriage. Amid the uproar one perspective is decidedly missing:…    
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Book details

List price: $12.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 5/9/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 7.99" wide x 5.28" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.352
Language: English

David G. Myers is John Dirk Werkman Professor of Psychology at Hope College.

Letha Dawson Scanzoni has authored or co-authored eight previous books, including Men, Women, and Change: A Sociology of Marriage and Family , and her classic Is the Homosexual My Neighbor? She is editor and publisher of the Evangelical & Ecumenical Women's Caucus publication Christian Feminism Today . Her many articles have appeared in numerous magazines, from Christianity Today and The Christian Century to the SIECUS Report and Utne Reader . Scanzoni is the mother of two and grandmother of five. She lives in southeastern Virginia.

Acknowledgments
A Personal Letter to Our Readers
The Great Divide
The Longing for Belonging
The State of Our Unions
A Newer World
Understanding Sexual Orientation
Changing Sexual Orientation
What the Bible Does and Doesn't Say
What God Has Joined Together?
Gay Marriage
Epilogue
Why Marriage Matters
Attitudes are Changing
Discussion Questions
Notes
Index
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