Same-Sex Marriage: Pro and Con: A Reader

ISBN-13: 9781400078660 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 416 str.

Andrew Sullivan

Opis

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."