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Divorcing Marriage: Unveiling the Dangers in Canada’s New Social Experiment
ISBN: 9780773572874
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Same-sex marriage -- Canada; Same-sex marriage -- Law and legislation -- Canada;

Is redefining marriage to include same-sex unions simply an act of fairness to gays and lesbians - another step in the evolution of Canada into a just society? Or is it a hastily conceived social experiment that will undermine human rights, deflecting marriage from the support of children to the mere affirmation of sexual commitment between adults?

Douglas Farrow is the Kennedy Smith Chair in Catholic Studies at McGill University.

Daniel Cere is director of the Institute for the Study of Marriage, Law, and Culture in Montreal and a consultant to several North American think-tanks.

Douglas Farrow is associate professor of Christian thought at McGill University, author or editor of