The debate over same-sex \u201cmarriage\u201d\u009d continues to be a hot topic in many countries. This week the New Zealand parliament voted in favor at the first reading of a bill that if eventually approved will legalize same-sex \u201cmarriage.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n
Legislation has also been introduced into the parliament of the Australian state of Tasmania to legalize same-sex \u201cmarriage.\u201d\u009d In Scotland the government is planning to approve it and last Sunday at Masses a pastoral letter from the bishops was read out, urging people to defend marriage as being between and a man and a woman. Meanwhile, in the United States the support for marriage voiced by the owner of a fast food chain, Chick-fil-A, has stirred up considerable controversy.<\/p>\n
The contrasting opinions on this topic were well covered in a recent book that pits two opposing views: \u201cDebating Same-Sex Marriage,\u201d\u009d (Oxford University Press) by John Corvino and Maggie Gallagher.<\/p>\n
Corvino is a professor of philosophy at Wayne State University in Detroit and Gallagher is the co-founder of the National Organization for Marriage and the author of several books on marriage.<\/p>\n