Not Inevitable

Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom, by Ryan T. Anderson (Regnery, 256 pp., $16.99)

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It’s entirely possible that the legal battle over same-sex marriage was lost for lack of Ryan Andersons. There simply weren’t enough people like him — people capable of making a compelling, plain-English, cultural, political, and legal case for marriage as the union of one man and one woman — to turn the tide against a same-sex-marriage onslaught that combined one part argument with three parts insult to cajole and bully America into redefining its most ancient cultural institution.

Coming so soon after the Supreme Court’s embarrassing opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges — in which it created a constitutional right to same-sex marriage — Truth Overruled is a tonic. It provides a much-needed reminder that the battle over marriage isn’t over. Indeed, in many ways, it’s hardly begun.

David French

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David French

David French is a former senior writer for National Review.

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