Volume 43, Number 11 · June 20, 1996
The Marrying Kind
By Kwame Anthony Appiah
The Case for Same-Sex Marriage
by William N. Eskridge Jr.
Free Press, 296 pp., $25.00
Virtually Normal: An Argument About Homosexuality
by Andrew Sullivan
Knopf, 209 pp., $22.00
For most Americans today, acquiring a spouse is the most important task in the years after high school. You are supposed to find someone you love and who loves you, to get to know each other and confirm that you are compatible, and then move into shared quarters and take up a common life. Ideally, you and your spouse then stay together, in the formula of the Book of Common Prayer, 'so long as ye both shall live.'
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