The Fight for Marriage
Church Conflicts and Courtroom Contests
- 2018 INDIES Finalist
- Finalist, LGBT (Adult Nonfiction)
Attorneys Harbison and Cramer brought one of the cases to the US Supreme Court, which resulted in the 2015 landmark decision that permits persons of the same gender to marry. They show why states care about marriage, why the church got involved in marriage more than a thousand years after Jesus's earthly ministry, and how the church and the state function in partnership to foster the purposes and social benefits of marriage.