Conjugal Union (Lee - paperback)

Author: Patrick Lee, Robert P. George

ISBN: 9781107670556

Binding: paperback

Section: Philosophy/Rhetoric/Logic

Subtitle: What Marriage Is and Why It Matters

Patrick Lee and Robert P. George argue that marriage is a distinctive type of community: the union of a man and a woman who have committed to sharing their lives on every level of their beings (bodily, emotionally, and spiritually) in the kind of union that would be fulfilled by conceiving and rearing children together. Lee and George detail how the basic moral norms regarding sexual acts follow from the ethical requirement to respect the good of marriage and explain how the law should treat marriage, given its conjugal nature, examining both the same-sex-marriage issue and civil divorce.