This volume presents both sides of the debate over whether same-sex marriage should be legalized.

The issue of same-sex marriage has attracted the attention of the nation and has become one of the most heated social controversies. This completely revised and

Same-sex marriages are currently not permitted under Australian federal law. Although same-sex couples in a de facto relationship have had most of the legal rig

The diverse, expert contributors to this volume from the fields of politics and law use moral argumentation with respect to same-sex marriage, gay rights in gen

The rhetoric and emotion surrounding the same-sex marriage debate tends to obscure the facts and figures. Tracing the development of same-sex marriage in the Un