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GAY MARRIAGE AND DEMOCRACY

Gay Marriage and Democracy b ser scholarship wh lively polemic. Claire Snyr dissects the ntent bate over gay marriage, revealg flty logic, flawed legal arguments, failur to live up to the promis of equaly enshred our untry's foundg documents, and feverish attempts to breech the wall separatg church om state.

She mostrat that anxiety over sexualy still generat bad public policy proposals the Uned Stat, even if gay marriage is currently not banned Boston. — Chip Berlet, -thor of Right-Wg Populism AmeriI know of no other work that provis such a prehensive and foced explanatn of why mocracy mands gay marriage.

GAY MARRIAGE AND MOCRACY : EQUALY FOR ALL

But more importantly, she mak a nvcg se for why the re valu of Amerin polics require that gay marriag be permted the Uned Stat.

— Choice ReviewsCuttg through the fear and self-righteons that make so difficult to talk hontly about gay marriage, R. Wrten wh clary and purpose, Gay Marrige and Democracy reveals the great strength of mocracy's most basic prciple. — John Ehrenberg, thor of Civil Society: The Cril History of an IaAs a book that hop to 'nvce the read that the fundamental prcipl of Amerin Democracy not only allow but also require the legislatn of same-sex marriage, ' Claire Snyr's Gay Marriage and Democracy archiv s purpose well.

One of the greatt achievements of this book is the multi-angled approach tak to scholarship… mak pellg and relevant arguments for her central goal, and th Gay Marriage and Democracy stands as a good rource for anyone engagg amic bat on mocracy, rights, or same-sex marriage.

GAY MARRIAGE AND MOCRACY : EQUALY FOR ALL

-- The logic of liberalism: Amerin polil theory and the se for gay marriage -- A false nsens: Christian right polics and the attack on same-sex marriage -- Neopatriarchy and the agenda of the antigay right -- Are lbian and gay Amerins actually cizens?

: the homophobic myopia of munarianism -- Marriage equaly and sexual eedom: toward a more progrsive unn. -- The logic of liberalism: Amerin polil theory and the se for gay marriage -- A false nsens: Christian right polics and the attack on same-sex marriage -- Neo-patriarchy and the agenda of the anti-gay right -- Are lbian and gay Amerins actually cizens?

GAY MARRIAGE AND DEMOCRACY

: the homophobic myopia of munarianism -- Marriage, equaly, and sexual eedom. Gay Marriage and Democracy: Equaly for All.

On January 3rd, the Massachetts Legislature — nvened a jot ssn of s Hoe and Senate known as a Constutnal Conventn — voted 62 to 134 to place an amendment banng gay marriage on the state ballot 2008. Gay marriage advot Massachetts, where the Supreme Judicial Court led that the state Constutn mandated gay marriage 2003, immediately cried foul. “There is not a gay person this state who is not livg terror about the possibily that this will pass, and the negative ramifitns for , which are huge for our kids and our fai, ” Arle Isaacson, chair of the Massachetts Gay & Lbian Polil Alliance said.

GAY MARRIAGE AND DEMOCRACY: EQUALY FOR ALL

” But I also have ser problems wh the unmocratic means by which gay marriage advot have attempted to achieve their worthy goal.

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Gay Marriage and Democracy: Equaly for All by R. Claire Snyr.

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