Same Sex Marriage - 9781400078660
Un libro in lingua di Sullivan Andrew (EDT) Landau Joseph (CON) edito da Vintage Books, 2004
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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, a pioneering voice in the debate, 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
Representing the full range of perspectives and the most cogent and arresting arguments, Same-Sex Marriage is essential to a balanced understanding of the most pressing cultural question we face today.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Same Sex Marriage
- Sottotitolo: Pro and Con : a Reader
- Lingua: English
- Autori : Sullivan Andrew (EDT) Landau Joseph (CON)
- Editore: Vintage Books
- Collana: Vintage Books (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Maggio '04
- Genere: SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Argomenti : Same-sex marriage Homosexuality Religious aspects Gay couples Legal status, laws, etc
- Dimensioni mm: 209 x 120 x 19
- ISBN-10: 1400078660
- EAN-13: 9781400078660