Conjugal Union: What Marriage Is and Why It Matters pdf

罗伯特 P. 乔治是麦考密克法学教授和詹姆斯麦迪逊美国理想与制度项目主任。 他曾担任美国国际宗教自由委员会 (USCIRF) 主席，在此之前担任总统生物伦理委员会主席和美国民权委员会总统任命人。 他还曾担任美国 联合国教科文组织世界科学知识与技术伦理委员会（COMEST）成员。 他是美国最高法院的前司法研究员，并获得了 Tom C. Clark 大法官奖。 他毕业于斯沃斯莫尔学院，拥有法学博士学位。 和 M.T.S. 哈佛大学学位和 D.Phil.、B.C.L.、D.C.L. 和 D.Litt 学位。 来自牛津大学。 他曾是哈佛法学院的客座教授，也是外交关系委员会的成员。

Conjugal Union: What Marriage Is and Why It Matters pdf 罗伯特·彼得·乔治

This book defends the conjugal view of marriage. Patrick Lee and Robert P. George argue that marriage is a distinctive type of community: the union of a man and a woman who have committed to sharing their lives on every level of their beings (bodily, emotionally, and spiritually) in the kind of union that would be fulfilled by conceiving and rearing children together. The comprehensive nature of this union, and its intrinsic orientation to procreation as its natural fulfillment, distinguishes marriage from other types of community and provides the basis for the norms of marital exclusivity and permanence. Lee and George detail how the basic moral norms regarding sexual acts follow from the ethical requirement to respect the good of marriage and explain how the law should treat marriage, given its conjugal nature, examining both the same-sex-marriage issue and civil divorce.