Ryan T. Anderson is a scholar focused on marriage and religious liberty, exploring the moral and constitutional questions surrounding same-sex marriage and defending traditional definitions of matrimony. His writing delves into justice, moral principles, and bioethics, often engaging with natural law theory. Anderson's essays and articles appear in leading publications, and his research seeks to balance private property with social rights in economic justice.
This book explores emerging conflicts about religious liberty and discrimination. In point-counterpoint format, it brings together longtime LGBT rights advocate John Corvino and rising conservative thinkers Ryan T. Anderson and Sherif Girgis to debate Religious Freedom Restoration Acts (RFRAs), anti- discrimination law, and age-old questions about identity, morality, and society.
Until yesterday, no society had seen marriage as anything other than a conjugal partnership: a male-female union. What Is Marriage? identifies and defends the reasons for this historic consensus and shows why redefining civil marriage is unnecessary, unreasonable, and contrary to the common good