Religion and Politics

The Myth About Marriage

In the blog of The New York Review of Books, Garry Wills asks, “Why do some people who would recognize gay civil unions oppose gay marriage?” He continues, “Certain religious groups want to deny gays the sacredness of what they take to be a sacrament. But marriage is no sacrament.” He goes on to document the lack of “sacramental” history of marriage in the Bible.

Read at The New York Review of Books

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