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Title: Marriage and Same-Sex Unions : A Debate by Lynn D. Wardle, Mark Strasser, William C. Duncan, David Orgon Coolidge ISBN: 0-275-97653-X Publisher: Praeger Publishers Pub. Date: 30 April, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Same-sex marriage: the issues debated
Comment: This is the book to get you up to speed on all the arguments concerning same-sex marriage, particularly if you are flummoxed by the 'rights' argument. It is a series of 11 chapters of paired commentaries [pro- and con- same-sex marriage]. Maggie Gallagher opens her chapter and the book with the question, 'what is marriage for?'. Teresa Stanton Collett contributes a well-organized chapter explaining the state's interest in recognizing marriage. Both see marriage as an institution uniquely well suited to the task of producing and raising children.
The final 5 chapters are devoted to legal issues. My favorite is William C. Duncan's account of the astonishing reasoning of the Vermont and some other state courts to arrive at the conclusion that mandates the equivalent of same-sex marriage. Read how a "Common Benefits" clause in Vermont's constitution leads to judicial lawmaking, and how an explicit "Separation of Powers" clause is ignored.
Well-known same-sex marriage proponents Mark Strasser, William Eskridge, Jr., Carlos Ball, and Andrew Koppelman are also represented. Some readers may find their arguments inspiring.
What's missing is a fully developed evolutionary biology argument for the superiority of child raising by natural parents, along the lines sketched out by Michael E. Levin in 'Sexual Orientation and Human Rights'. Otherwise these articulate authors give the reader a good feel for all the issues involved in the same-sex marriage debate.
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Title: Statistics with Common Sense by David Kault ISBN: 0313322090 Publisher: Greenwood Press Pub. Date: 30 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Same-Sex Marriage: Pro and Con by Andrew Sullivan, Joseph Landau ISBN: 0679776370 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 April, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: When Prisoners Come Home: Parole and Prisoner Reentry by Joan Petersilia ISBN: 019516086X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution by Evan Gerstmann ISBN: 0521009529 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America by Renee Christine Romano ISBN: 0674010337 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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