
If Love Has Won, Has Marriage Lost?
An Orthodox Response to Obergefell v. Hodges
March 6, 2016 by Clarion Editors · Leave a Comment
Last summer, the United States Supreme Court ruled that marriage is a constitutional right for all citizens, and that laws banning same-sex marriage are unconstitutional. What does this mean for the Church? Orthodox theologian Vigen Guroian argues for a rediscovery of the centrality of the Eucharist in Christian matrimony – and for the Church's immediate disengagement from the civil marriage business.