America's War on Same-Sex Couples and Their Families: And How the Courts Rescued Them

ISBN-13: 9781107559004 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 344 str.

Daniel Pinello

Opis

Presents oral histories of how same-sex-marriage bans impacted gay couples and their children, and how courts rescued those families.

Recenzje

'Carefully chronicling the effects of the efforts of 20 states to pass restrictive constitutional amendments known as Super-DOMAs (named after the federal Defense of Marriage Act), the author examines these restrictive constitutional amendments, designed to ban recognition of all forms of relationship rights for same-sex couples. … This is an excellent, well-researched look at the question of whether the judicial system can effectively bring about social change in terms of marriage equality.' W. K. Hall, CHOICE

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. State judicial interpretations of super-DOMAs; 3. The effects of super-DOMAs on same-sex couples; 4. The effects of super-DOMAs on families with children being raised by same-sex couples; 5. Super-DOMAs and LGBT migration: fight or flight?; 6. How the federal courts rescued same-sex couples and their families; 7. Conclusion.