| One Marriage Under God: The Campaign to Promote Marriage in America Subjects: Marriage -- United States; Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; United States -- Social conditions; Heterosexuality -- United States; The meaning and significance of the institution of marriage has engendered angry and boisterous battles across the United States. While the efforts of lesbians and gay men to make marriage accessible to same-sex couples have seen increasing success, these initiatives have sparked a backlash as campaigns are waged to "protect" heterosexual marriage in America. Less in the public eye is government legislation that embraces the idea of marriage promotion as a necessary societal good. Melanie Heath is Associate Professor of Sociology at McMaster University. She is author of One Marriage under God: The Campaign to Promote Marriage in America (New York University Press, 2012) and coauthor of The How To of Qualitative Research (with Janice Aurini and Stephanie Howells, Sage, 2016). |