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What Is Marriage?: Man and Woman: A Defense
Written by Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson and Robert P. George
Narrated by Claton Butcher
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This crucial text identifies and defends the reasons for defining marriage traditionally—as the conjugal union of husband and wife—and reveals why redefining it is a mistake.
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Sherif Girgis
Sherif Girgis is a research scholar at the Witherspoon Institute. The coauthor of the books What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense and Debating Religious Liberty and Discrimination, he earned his A.B. at Princeton University and, after earning a master's degree at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and a law degree from Yale, returned to Princeton to complete a Ph.D. in philosophy. He has written and spoken on social issues in numerous academic and popular venues.
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