Authors: Andrew Sullivan, Joseph Landau, Joseph Landau
ISBN-13: 9781400078660, ISBN-10: 1400078660
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date Published: May 2004
Edition: Revised Edition
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.
Ch. 1 | For the first time ever? : same-sex marriage in history | 3 |
Ch. 2 | In God's name? : the religious war continues | 46 |
Ch. 3 | It is so ordered? : the path of the courts | 86 |
Ch. 4 | Why marry? : the debate on the left | 121 |
Ch. 5 | How conservative a project? : the debate on the right | 146 |
Ch. 6 | The defense of marriage act? : the national debate begins | 204 |
Ch. 7 | Not in front of the children? : same-sex marriage and parenthood | 239 |
Ch. 8 | A slippery slope? : the polygamy and adultery debate | 273 |
Ch. 9 | Whose life is it anyway? : the real world of love and marriage | 295 |
Ch. 10 | A federal marriage amendment? : the future of the legal and political battle | 325 |