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Moral Argument, Religion, and Same-Sex Marriage
Advancing the Public Good
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2009
Summary
The diverse expert contributors to this volume from the fields of politics and law use moral argumentation with respect to same-sex marriage, gay rights in general, and California's Prop 8. The arguments are advanced in terms of the nation's foundational political and legal principles, extending ethical argumentation to important contemporary public policy areas such as marriage, the separation of church and state, and the rearing of children. Several chapters also contest the perceived if not actual establishment in the law and public policy of heterosexist and religious bias that continues to work against full and meaningful inclusion of sexual minorities. This bias is ironically and improperly couched in the language of American political and religious values, and it misunderstands the nation's core principles, or willfully miscasts them as inapplicable to many Americans and their families. Nonetheless, this bias is pervasive in the nation's political discourse, working to deny an important right and the recognition of equality to many citizens. The main contribution ofMoral Argument, Religion, and Same-Sex Marriage is in its direct engagement with the political and legal arguments of the gay community's critics on their own moral and ethical terms. Along the way, important concepts in public discourse_such as governmental neutrality, the right to marry, and religious freedom_are presented and cast in the light of liberal-democratic theory.
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Copyright year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-2649-3
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-4119-9
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
245
Product type
Edited Book
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Table of Contents No access
Introduction No access
1: A Commentary on the Old Saw that Same-Sex Marriage Threatens Civilization No access
2: Looking for Liberty and Defining Marriage in Three Same-Sex Marriage Cases No access
3: The Religion Clauses and Same-Sex Marriage No access
4: Against Neutrality in the Legal Recognition of Intimate Relationships No access
5: Marriage Equality and the Morality of Liberalism: The California Decision No access
6: Same-Sex Marriage and the American Political Tradition No access
7: The Special Status of Religion Under the First Amendment. . . and What it Means for Gay Rights and Antidiscrimination Laws No access
8: Supporting Queer Youth: A New Vision of Child, Family, and State No access
9: Consuming Its Own?: Heteronormativity contra Human Plurality No access
Conclusion No access Pages 205 - 232
Index of Cases Referenced No access Pages 233 - 234
