The Myth About Marriage
August 20, 2017
Paul Collins' recent article, An Open Letter to Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher, has attracted record numbers of readers for this blog. The following article by Garry Wills elaborates on the 'myth about marriage'. In his article in the New York Review of Books on 9 May 2012, Garry Wills writes: Why do some people who would recognize gay civil unions oppose gay marriage? Certain religious groups want to deny gays the sacredness of what they take to be a sacrament. But marriage is no sacrament.