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- BT GAY ROMANCE WH ABED/TRMATIZED CHARACTERS
- BT GAY PRISON ROMANC
- GAY MEN BEE VICTIMS OF FORCED MARRIAG
- WHY THE BATTLE FOR GAY MARRIAGE WAS WON SO EASILY
- GAY MARRIAGE
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Books featurg gay (m/m) characters prisons, or recently released om prison and on parole. Men some muni are beg forced to marriage bee their fai spect they are gay or bisexual, the ernment has Forced Marriage Un (FMU) says there has been a surge such s. "While the vast majory (86%) of victims se are female, the FMU says men are beg forced to marriage bee they are gay or bisexual, or bee their fai spect that they are.
"This kd of abe mt not be tolerated, " said Lynne Featherstone, the equali two weeks ago, the FMU took a ll om a young man livg Leicter whose fay had locked him his bedroom after disverg that he was gay. He told the FMU that his fay were downstairs, discsg whether they should take him to India and eher kill him, abandon him there or marry him Albert Kennedy Tst, a chary for homels lbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual young people, recently reported a rise the number of young gay Mlims ntactg for the end of May, there had been 88 lls to the FMU om men for help.
GAY MEN BEE VICTIMS OF FORCED MARRIAG
What if the fg gay rights mand of the past generatn had not been equal marriage rights but an affirmative-actn program for employment areas — say, the feral ernment — where gay men and lbians had suffered historic discrimatn? Even as nservativ fight for relig-liberty exemptns om the new norms around same-sex marriage, such as those the Supreme Court is nsirg a challenge om a Catholic social-servic agency that ref to place foster children gay fai, they’ve effectively nced feat the broar war over the earlier civil rights projects to which the qut for marriage equaly was often pared — notably, for women’s sufage and racial segregatn — not only took much longer to reach their goals but also appeared to leave a ridue of unrolved nflict even after the nstutnal issu were settled. In the sprg of 1996, Whe Hoe talkg pots on the topic — which Print Bill Clton personally approved — argued that the print “do not believe is appropriate for srce feral rourc to be voted to providg spoal benefs to partners gay and lbian relatnships.
In pretrial statements, the state attorney general’s office dned a range of potential ratnal: that Hawaii thori had an tert ensurg that the state’s legal relatnships were regnized other jurisdictns; that the state had an tert furtherg procreatn wh marriage; that heterosexual marriag were better for children; that the islands’ tourist enomy uld suffer if Hawaii beme Lake Tahoe for gay and lbian none of the ratnal managed to persua judg — eher Hawaii or subsequent succsful challeng to marriage laws Vermont, Massachetts, Connecticut, California and Iowa.
” But afterward, even the most cynil observers of events Massachetts and the stat that followed s lead uld not pot to any societal y that gay marriage both the legal and polil spher, opponents were forced to shrk the circle of those expected to feel direct harm om lettg gay men and lbians marry. Even if simple exposure to gay fai ed harm to children (and gay-marriage opponents uld never mter anythg beyond njecture to support that claim), they did not brg much to the fight agast same-sex marriage as voters, donors or the same time, the aln of those vted legalizg same-sex marriage not only broaned, but their vtment the oute epened.
WHY THE BATTLE FOR GAY MARRIAGE WAS WON SO EASILY
This clud not jt gay upl who wanted to marry — drawn to the unique material benefs and symbolic power the stutn offered — but their fai and muni who saw marriage as a source of stabily, and even employers who wanted to synchronize their benefs wh the law and standardize them across state l. Bakke, which upheld affirmative-actn was an accint of history, talyzed by lol events Hawaii, that marriage equaly rose to the top of the gay rights agenda at the start of this century.
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Or what if each state had only a set number of marriage licens to give out each year, and each time one went to a gay uple, a straight uple had to wa? In ke bakers and foster-re agenci, gay-marriage opponents fally found people who felt they had somethg to lose.
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Rch's imprsive book is as enthiastic an enium to marriage as anyone, gay or straight, uld wre. Garrow, The Washgton Post Book World In May 2004, gay marriage beme legal Massachetts, but remas a divisive and ntent issue across Ameri.
As liberals and nservativ mobilize around this issue, no one has e forward wh a more pellg, prehensive, and readable se for gay marriage than Jonathan Rch. In this book, he puts forward a clear and hont manifto explag why gay marriage is important—even ccial—to the health of marriage Ameri today, groundg his argument monsense, mastream valu and nontg social nservativ on their own turf.