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and a media release about same sex marriage
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CHRISTIAN ETHICIST CONCLUDES SAME-SEX MARRIAGE OKAY -- BUT MARRIAGE
IS NOT FOR EVERYONE
New Book Being Released by The Pilgrim Press
December 14, 2003
Same-Sex Marriage? A Christian
Ethical Analysis
Marvin M. Ellison
208 PP - Index - 6" x 9"
Religion/ Ethics
ISBN 0-8298-1560-0
Cloth with jacket
$24.00 USA/$39.00 CAN/$47.95 AUS
January 2004 Publication
World Rights
"Heterosexuals have no monopoly
on love and Marvin Ellison brilliantly shows in this book that the
right to marry is a human right, not an award for being heterosexual."
- Daniel C. Maguire, professor of moral theology, Marquette University,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
"A must read for anyone
who wants to take an informed position on this issue. Marvin Ellison's
book offers an essential voice in the marriage debate by bringing
the broad ethics of Christianity to what is otherwise a legal question
about the justness of discrimination against gay and lesbian couples
in civil marriage. He takes to task all the players in the debate,
and brings to bear the rich justness and compassion of Christian
ethics to enrich the debate."
- Mary L. Bonauto, civil rights director of GLAD (Gay and Lesbian
Advocates and Defenders), and lead counsel in the Goodridge v. Dept.
of Public Health, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and co-counsel in
the Baker v. State of Vermont
In a new book to be published January 1, 2004, a progressive Christian ethicist at a mainline Protestant seminary examines the arguments for and against same-sex marriage and concludes that as a matter of justice, the institution should be open to same-sex couples. However, the author, Marvin M. Ellison, an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and a professor of Christian ethics at United Church of Christ-related Bangor Theological Seminary, points out that marriage is not necessarily ideal for all lesbian or gay people, and that marriage is not for all straight people either.
In dialogue with both legal scholars and theologians, Ellison examines the strengths and weaknesses of how marriage traditionalists, advocates of same-sex marriage, and LBGT (lesbian/bisexual/gay/transgender) critics of marriage analyze the issues and frame their arguments. The book offers constructive proposals for revitalizing Christian sexual and family ethics and moving the debate forward, regardless of whether the right to marry is won or lost.
The book will officially publish January 1, 2004, and is being shipped to booksellers and reviewers during the month of December 2003. A review copy is automatically being shipped to all members of Religion Newswriters Association.
Marvin M. Ellison is Willard S. Bass Professor of Christian Ethics at Bangor Theological Seminary in Maine and an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA). He received his Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary in New York City. Ellison is co-editor of "Body and Soul: Rethinking Sexuality as Justice-Love" (The Pilgrim Press, 2003), author of "Erotic Justice: A Liberating Ethic of Sexuality" (1996), and a principal author of the Presbyterian Church (USA) study document "Keeping Body and Soul Together: Sexuality, Spirituality, and Social Justice" (1991). He lives in Portland, Maine.
Also by Marvin M. Ellison:
Body and Soul: Rethinking Sexuality
as Justice-Love
Marvin M. Ellison and Sylvia Thorson-Smith, eds.
ISBN 0-8298-1561-9
$30.00 USA/$48.00 CAN/$59.95 AUS
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