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Few social issues have so occupied the public consciousness in general in the twenty-first century as has the debate over same-sex marriage. Few social issues have so shaken the evangelical college community in particular in the second decade of the twenty-first century as the religious, economic, and political challenge of same-sex marriage.
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Ringenberg, W.C. (2016). Sexual and Gender Identity (I). In: The Christian College and the Meaning of Academic Freedom. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137398338_22
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