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What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense In "Prospect", Alex Worsnip, a Teaching Fellow of Philosophy at Yale University concluded that 'the arguments of What Is Marriage [were] no less flimsy than those of other anti-gay marriage crusaders.' He concluded that the 'bad arguments' in the book amounted to 'nonsense.' In 2013, Zachary Young of "The Yale Politic" called it, 'the touchstone for the defense of marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife' in "National Review". The book was cited by Justice Samuel Alito in his decision over United States v. Windsor, which led to a repeal of a section of the Defense of Marriage