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Article: Gays marrying.
- Article from:
- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
- Article date:
- May 1, 1998
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There are moments when a person says something that should have been obvious but which has been left unsaid -- and we wonder why the rest of us have failed to see or say it. That, at least in part, is my reaction to a thesis put forward by Jonathan Mills in a little book titled Love, Covenant & Meaning (published by Regent College Publishing, where Mills teaches). The subtitle of the book -- "Why are Liberals and Conservatives Conspiring to Prevent `Homosexual' Men from Marrying?" -- may seem more intriguing. The book is straightforwardly written though not especially well written, is aimed principally at pastors, and deals almost exclusively with gay men rather than ...