Introduction pt. I. The Massachusetts decision and reactions: Goodridge v. Massachusetts Department of Public Health / Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Toward a more perfect union / David J. Garrow A call for a constitutional amendment protecting marriage / President George W. Bush Bush's case for same-sex marriage / Jonathan Rauch How good is Goodrich? An analysis of Goodridge v. Department of Public Health / Glenn T. Stanton The road to gay marriage / New York Times editorial Time for a new Boston Tea Party / Pat Buchanan The power of marriage / David Brooks Why the "M" word matters to me / Andrew Sullivan Marriage: mix and match / Nicholas Kristof The bells are ringing...marriage, marriage, everywhere / John O'Sullivan "Sanctity" and sanctimony / Jennifer Black No court ruling can change the fact that marriage is about one man and one woman / Ron Crews Weddings once forbidden: obstacles to gay marriage evoke mixed-marriage bans / Derrick Z. Jackson The abolition of sex don't worryonly in the law. Only! / John Derbyshire pt. II. The emotional dimensions of the debate: gay marriage takes heart: one couple's story / Chivas Sandage A (personal) essay on same-sex marriage / Barbara J. Cox Adam and Eve, not Adam and Henry / Jeffrey Hart A lesbian family / Lindsy Van Gelder I left my husband for the woman I love / Jane Doe Counseling same-sex couples / Douglas Carl I have anguished / Ed Fallon
pt. III. The philosophical arguments: the morality of homosexual marriage / Daniel Maguire
Contra same-sex marriage / Jeff Jordan
Homosexuality and marriage / John B. Cobb Jr.
The marriage amendment / The editors, First things
Same-sex marriage: the theologies can vary / Dudley Rose
A more perfect union: reservations about gay marriage / Dennis O'Brien
Virtually normal / Andrew Sullivan
The marrying kind / Elizabeth Kristol
Embodiment, care ethics, and the same-sex marriage controversy / Maurice Hamington
Gay marriage, and marriage / Sam Shulman
Bless the tie that binds: a Puritan-covenant case for same-sex marriage / Dwight J. Penas
Since when is marriage a path to liberation? / Paula L. Ettelbrick
The libertarian question: incest, homosexuality, and adultery / Stanley Kurtz
Making the family functional: the case for same-sex marriage / Larry A. Hickman
The Christian case for same-sex marriage / Jack McKinney
Appendixes. 1. The text of the Defense of Marriage Act
2. Gay marriages in San Francisco: Mayor Gavin Newsom's letter to the County Clerk / Gavin Newsom
3. Baehr v. Lewin: an edited version of the 1993 Hawaii Supreme Court decision and report of the Hawaii Commission on Sexual Orientation and the Law.
