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Same-sex marriage : the moral and legal debate / edited by Robert M. Baird & Stuart E. Rosenbaum.
LIBRA HQ76.3.U5 S33 1997
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Contemporary issues (Buffalo, N.Y.)
- Contemporary issues
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Same-sex marriage--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- Same-sex marriage.
- Same-sex marriage--Law and legislation--United States.
- Same-sex marriage--Law and legislation.
- Same-sex marriage--Moral and ethical aspects.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 242 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1997.
- Summary:
- The issue of same-sex marriage has attracted the attention of many political and cultural interests. Same-Sex Marriage: The Moral and Legal Debate presents a balanced sampling of diverse and cogent arguments by academics, politicians, journalists, attorneys, judges, and activists. The perspectives range from the views of lesbian feminists, who decry the institution of marriage as an instrument of oppression, to those of religious and cultural conservatives, who see same-sex marriage as the fatal undermining of traditional family structure and even of Western civilization itself.
- Contents:
- The Defense of Marriage Act. The text ; The Hon. Henry A. Waxman : in opposition ; The Hon. Jesse Helms : in support
- A (personal) essay on same-sex marriage / Barbara J. Cox
- Adam and Eve, not Adam and Henry / Jeffrey Hart
- A lesbian family / Lindsy Van Gelder
- I left my husband for the woman I love / Jane Doe
- Marriage from God, not courts / Cal Thomas
- Counseling same-sex couples / Douglas Carl
- The morality of homosexual marriage / Daniel Maguire
- Is it wrong to discriminate on the basis of homosexuality? / Jeff Jordan
- The case for gay marriage / Richard D. Mohr
- The stakes in the gay-marriage wars / Richard D. Mohr
- How domestic partnerships and "gay marriage" threaten the family / Robert H. Knight
- Marriage's true ends / Commonweal editorial
- Virtually normal / Andrew Sullivan
- The marrying kind / Elizabeth Kristol
- Against homosexual marriage / James Q. Wilson
- Bless the tie that binds : a puritan-covenant case for same-sex marriage / Dwight J. Penas
- Since when is marriage a path to liberation? / Paula L. Ettelbrick
- Gay marriage / Christine Pierce
- Time has come to make a case for polyandry / William Safire
- I have anguished / Ed Fallon
- Relations between consenting adults : sodomy laws and homosexual marriage / Richard A. Posner
- Making the family functional : the case for same-sex marriage / Larry A. Hickman
- Baehr v. Lewin : an edited version of the 1993 Hawaii Supreme Court decision
- Report of the Hawaii Commission on Sexual Orientation and the Law, including the minority report and the majority response
- Baehr v. Lewin : a step in the right direction for gay rights / Anthony C. Infanti
- Hawaiian aye : nearing the altar on gay marriage / Andrew Sullivan.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Same-sex marriage.
- ISBN:
- 1573921297
- 9781573921299
- OCLC:
- 36112209
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