| Description |
xxx, 380 pages ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. For the first time ever? : same-sex marriage in history -- Ch. 2. In God's name? : the religious war continues -- Ch. 3. It is so ordered? : the path of the courts -- Ch. 4. Why marry? : the debate on the left -- Ch. 5. How conservative a project? : the debate on the right -- Ch. 6. The defense of marriage act? : the national debate begins -- Ch. 7. Not in front of the children? : same-sex marriage and parenthood -- Ch. 8. A slippery slope? : the polygamy and adultery debate -- Ch. 9. Whose life is it anyway? : the real world of love and marriage -- Ch. 10. A federal marriage amendment? : the future of the legal and political battle |
| Summary |
With same-sex marriage igniting a firestorm of controversy in the press and in the courts, in legislative chambers and in living rooms, Andrew Sullivan has brought together two thousand years of argument in an anthology of historic inclusiveness and evenhandedness. Among the selections included here: - The 2003 Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling in support of same-sex marriage - Justice Kennedy's majority opinion and Justice Scalia's dissent in the 2003 landmark Supreme Court decision striking down anti-sodomy laws - President George W. Bush's call for a Federal Marriage Amendment - John Kerry's Senate speech urging defeat of the Defense of Marriage Act - Harvard historian Nancy F. Cott's testimony before the Vermont House Judiciary Committee - Reverend Peter J. Gomes on the distinction between civil and religious marriage - Stanley Kurtz on the politics of gay marriage - Evan Wolfson on the popularity of the right to marry among lesbians and gay men - New York Times op-ed columnist David Brooks' conservative case for same-sex marriage - Excerpts from Genesis, Leviticus, and other essential biblical texts - Aristophanes's classic theory of same-sex love, from Plato's Symposium - Hannah Arendt on marriage as a fundamental right - Camille Paglia's skepticism |
| Notes |
"A Vintage original, May 2004"--T.p. verso |
| Subject |
Same-sex marriage.
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Homosexuality -- Religious aspects.
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Gay couples -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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| Author |
Sullivan, Andrew, 1963-
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| LC no. |
2004273579 |
| ISBN |
1400078660 |
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