Contents:
- GAY MARRIAGE AND DEMOCRACY
- GAY MARRIAGE AND MOCRACY : EQUALY FOR ALL
- GAY MARRIAGE AND MOCRACY : EQUALY FOR ALL
- GAY MARRIAGE AND DEMOCRACY
- GAY MARRIAGE AND DEMOCRACY: EQUALY FOR ALL
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. 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.
GAY MARRIAGE AND MOCRACY : EQUALY FOR ALL
— 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.
-- 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.
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 -- Neo-patriarchy and the agenda of the anti-gay right -- Are lbian and gay Amerins actually cizens? : 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
” But I also have ser problems wh the unmocratic means by which gay marriage advot have attempted to achieve their worthy goal.
It was only after anti-gay marriage advot, joed by then-Governor and prumed printial ndidate Mt Romney, brought a lawsu to the state’s hight urt that the tabl began to turn. The Supreme Judicial Court — which, is important to remember, is the same Court that led gays have a Constutnal right to marry — unanimoly cid a December 27th cisn, that the legislature’s obligatn to vote on the mers of an iative petn which garnered the requise number of signatur is “beyond ser bate.
GAY MARRIAGE AND DEMOCRACY: EQUALY FOR ALL
” Bee gay advot know they do not have the law on their si, they have turned to legally dub ways of scuttlg the amendment. ” Isaacson’s alarmism is accurate; there is ltle chance that the amendment would pass bee a steadily creasg majory of voters here support legal regnn of gay marriage. She openly adms that gay marriage activists knew they did not have enough vot to block the amendment on s mers and so they advoted procral tricks like adjournment — emed unnstutnal by the state’s hight urt — to get their way.
” In the highly unlikely event that the marriage amendment do make the ballot and Massachetts voters repeal gay marriage, would ed be a shame.
Supportg gay marriage and the le of law, as I do, is not mutually exclive. We ought to give supporters of gay marriage the benef of the doubt that they support the mocratic procs as well.