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Same-Sex Marriage: Pro and Con: A Reader

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.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 400
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780679776376
  • Genres
  • politics, gay, queer, lgbt, marriage, history, cultural
  • Release date
  • 2004