Same Sex Marriage And The Constitution

Author : Evan Gerstmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521709132
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution written by Evan Gerstmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-25 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revised and expanded second edition of Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution makes the case that the Constitution has long protected the right to marry, and that this protection includes the right to marry a person of the same gender. No other book makes this argument. This book addresses other issues, such as why same-sex marriage is completely different, both practically and constitutionally, from polygamy and incest, and it debunks the myth that pro-same-sex marriage decisions have created a backlash against either gays and lesbians or the Democratic Party.

Author : Evan Gerstmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316802760
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution written by Evan Gerstmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2015 the Supreme Court made history by ruling that the constitution protects the right of same-sex couples to get married. The third edition of perhaps the most influential book on the subject explains the Court's reasoning and what the consequences of the decision have been. The book also explains why the Supreme Court declined to rule that a ban on same-sex marriage was irrational or hateful or that the ban was an indirect form of gender discrimination. Instead, the Court ruled that there is a fundamental constitutional right to marry that covers same-sex couples. The book discusses the dissent's claims that the decision will lead to constitutional protection for polygamy. It also covers the controversy over whether there should be special laws that allow religious business owners not to serve same-sex couples who are married. This book is free of jargon and is accessible to anyone interested in same-sex equality, the Supreme Court or constitutional law generally.

Author : Evan Gerstmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107174295
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution written by Evan Gerstmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clearly written and accessible explanation of the Supreme Court's same-sex marriage decision, its reasoning, and the consequences and controversies surrounding it.

Author : Barbara Gottfried Hollander
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1477775145
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marriage Rights and Gay Rights written by Barbara Gottfried Hollander and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One would think that by now the issue of marriage and the simple right for two people who love one another to be together would be settled. Even in the 21st century, people ask, "What is marriage?" Although the word "marriage" isn't even mentioned in the Constitution, readers will learn why this issue has been a subject of debate for years, whether for interracial or same-sex couples. Primary source documents, quotes, and explanations of Supreme Court rulings help set the scene and tell the evolving tale of equality for marriage rights in the United States.

Author : Justin Healey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781922084019
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Same-sex Marriage Debate written by Justin Healey and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Same-sex marriages are currently not permitted under Australian federal law. Although same-sex couples in a de facto relationship have had most of the legal rights of married couples since July 2009, there is however no national registered partnership or civil union scheme.

Author : William N. Eskridge
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Case for Same-sex Marriage written by William N. Eskridge and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Third, same-sex marriage would help civilize America. A civilized polity assures equality for all its citizens. Without full access to the institutions of civic life, gays and lesbians cannot be full participants in the American experience. Gays and lesbians love their country, and have contributed in every way to its flourishing.

Author : Mark Strasser
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501717723
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legally Wed written by Mark Strasser and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a new preface, Mark Strasser discusses recent developments in the legal battle over same-sex marriages in Hawaii. He anticipates the likely state and nationwide impact of the Hawaii Supreme Court's decision. Mark Strasser examines the issue of same-sex marriage in light of contemporary constitutional and domestic relations law, showing why the usual arguments against recognizing such unions are either weak or irrelevant. The Supreme Court has articulated numerous interests promoted by marriage, all of which apply to same-sex as well as opposite-sex couples. According to Strasser, the argument made most frequently to deny recognition to same-sex unions—that marriage exists to provide a setting for the production and raising of children—is in fact a reason to acknowledge such unions. The claim that marriage is for children biologically related to both parents is refuted in the case law, which treats biological and adopted children as legally indistinguishable. Strasser explains Baehr v. Lewin, the precedent setting case in Hawaii, and addresses the implications of state-by-state decisions to ban or recognize same-sex unions. He analyzes what it would mean to say that a policy violates the Equal Protection or Due Process Clauses of the Constitution, and compares biased polices that target gays and lesbians with those that victimize racial minorities. Strasser argues that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is both unconstitutional and a public policy disaster. It does not give states additional rights with respect to which marriages they need not recognize, Strasser explains, but only with respect which divorces they need not recognize. For example, DOMA seems to allow an individual to avoid a court-imposed duty to support an ex-spouse of the same sex simply by changing his or her domicile. Moreover, Strasser argues, DOMA is an open invitation for states to demand exceptions that will wreak havoc in domestic relations law. In a recent response to conservative arguments about marriage, Legally Wed explicates established and involving legal principles, and shows how invidiously these have been applied to the issues of gay rights in general and same-sex unions in particular.

Author : Mark Strasser
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Challenge of Same-Sex Marriage written by Mark Strasser and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1999-09-30 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines the constitutional dimensions of the same-sex marriage referenda in Hawaii and Alaska, and discusses the limited conditions under which the US constitution allows states to refuse recognition of same-sex marriages validly celebrated in a sister state.

Author : Sasha Issenberg
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1984898515
Total Pages : 929 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Engagement written by Sasha Issenberg and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 929 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • The riveting story of the conflict over same-sex marriage in the United States—the most significant civil rights breakthrough of the new millennium "Full of intimate details, battling personalities, heated court cases, public persuasion.” —John Williams, The New York Times On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state bans on gay marriage were unconstitutional, making same-sex unions legal across the United States. But the road to that momentous decision was much longer than many know. In this definitive account, Sasha Issenberg vividly guides us through same-sex marriage’s unexpected path from the unimaginable to the inevitable. It is a story that begins in Hawaii in 1990, when a rivalry among local activists triggered a sequence of events that forced the state to justify excluding gay couples from marriage. In the White House, one president signed the Defense of Marriage Act, which elevated the matter to a national issue, and his successor tried to write it into the Constitution. Over twenty-five years, the debate played out across the country, from the first legal same-sex weddings in Massachusetts to the epic face-off over California’s Proposition 8 and, finally, to the landmark Supreme Court decisions of United States v. Windsor and Obergefell v. Hodges. From churches to hedge funds, no corner of American life went untouched. This richly detailed narrative follows the coast-to-coast conflict through courtrooms and war rooms, bedrooms and boardrooms, to shed light on every aspect of a political and legal controversy that divided Americans like no other. Following a cast of characters that includes those who sought their own right to wed, those who fought to protect the traditional definition of marriage, and those who changed their minds about it, The Engagement is certain to become a seminal book on the modern culture wars.

Author : Robert M. Baird
Publisher : Contemporary Issues (Prometheu
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Same-sex Marriage written by Robert M. Baird and published by Contemporary Issues (Prometheu. This book was released on 2004 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issue of same-sex marriage has attracted the attention of the nation and has become one of the most heated social controversies. This completely revised and updated second edition of "Same-Sex Marriage" presents a balanced selection of the latest, the most diverse, and the most clearly argued positions advocated by academics, politicians, journalists, attorneys, judges, and activists.