{"product_id":"9781925501124","title":"Two Men Talk About Marriage","description":"from the introduction...\u003cp\u003eWe have written this book because we believe in 'traditional' marriage and wish to see it protected. But who are we? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe are two unmarried men from very different backgrounds. John is the second of eleven children and his parents remain happily married after thirty-three years. Jeremy is the eldest of two children, whose parents separated when he was nine and later divorced. John was raised Catholic and, despite a rocky patch in his early twenties, he has never abandoned his faith. Jeremy was not raised in any faith tradition and for some years was strongly anti-Christian. For most of his twenties he also considered himself exclusively homosexual, and for nearly five years he was in a relationship with another man. After many years of having no faith at all, he became a Catholic in his early thirties.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou might have expected us to end up on opposite sides of the marriage debate, given our vastly different upbringings and life-experiences. Yet we did not.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough both of us are now practising Catholics, this is not a religious book. It so happens that, when each of us first thought seriously about the subject of marriage, religion barely came into it. John was at rock bottom career-wise, emotionally and spiritually, though still a believer. Jeremy was not even a believer. He had recently broken up with his partner, but had hopes of getting back together with him. He and his ex-partner had even talked of getting married. Nonetheless, his reflections on marriage led him in the same direction as John: towards the 'traditional' (one man, one woman) view of marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is our attempt to explain why.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Connor Court Publishing Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039429279984,"sku":"9781925501124","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781925501124_p0.jpg?v=1763634555","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781925501124","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}