IS THERE A CASE FOR SSM?
Questions of eligibility and consequences
By R.S. Harris
Anglican Mainstream and Voice for Justice UK
102 pages. £7.99
ISBN 978 0 957 506 602
This little book packs a punch. Written primarily for a secular audience, it pulls together the key arguments against the legalisation of same-sex marriage (SSM). The aim is to persuade those who may not share a biblical worldview that there are good reasons for opposing the move.
Its premise is that SSM simply does not meet the historic legal tests of eligibility for what marriage is, and that the ‘love and commitment’ argument is not sufficient to replace those tests — not least because it does not in itself preclude a wider definition of marriage, e.g. between more than two people.
