Same-Sex Marriage: Pro and Con

Same-Sex Marriage: Pro and Con

Andrew Sullivan

Publisher: Vintage Books

Format: Paperback

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.

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