| Description |
1 online resource (v, 911 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction : A President Decides -- Part One : The Love That Ate an Island (1990-1996) -- Seeking License -- Only One Man Marching -- A Distinct Civil-Liberties Question -- Rolling the Dice -- Gay Mafia -- Making the Case -- Baehr v. Lewin -- A Chickenskin Moment -- Shoals of Time -- Part Two : Inventing a Constitutional Crisis (1996) -- Wardle's Run -- Dominos at the Barn Door -- A Message from the Presidency -- Apostles -- Hawaii's Future Today -- Kickoff -- Don & Bob -- The Law Man -- How a Grievance Becomes a Bill -- Part Three : Inside Games (1996) -- March On, Washington -- Fights of the Roundtable -- Waiting for a Nightmare -- The Rebrander and the Firebrand -- Smooth Sailing -- Endangered Liaisons -- Two Weeks in May -- Dear Friends -- An Election-Year Baseball Bat -- When the Deal Goes Down -- Midnight Cowboy -- Trial at Honolulu -- Part Four : The Second Front (1997-2003) -- Shameless Agitator -- Queer Town Meetings -- Marriage 101 -- Anything but The Slam-Dunk Cases -- Baker v. State -- The Remedy -- Scenes from a Civil Union -- Down from the Mountains -- The Next Town Over -- Goodridge -- Part Five : "Our Team Is Not Winning" (2003-2004) -- We're the Marriage People -- A Sense of Where the Culture Is Headed -- Enemy of the Good -- Marriage Movements -- Wise as Serpents -- Dueling Amendments -- Lawlessness -- Issue One -- Part Six : Twenty Ten Ten Ten (2003-2007) -- When You're Living Through It -- Paul Revere Rides In -- Speaking for the Silent Majority -- Clear It with Evan -- Organization Man -- Mining the Foundations -- Outgiving -- Clarity of Coalition -- After the Bloodbath -- Punish the Wicked -- Let California Ring -- Part Seven : The Right's Last Stand (2007-2008) -- It Came from San Diego -- Little Kingdoms -- God's Way of Bringing People Together -- Nassau Street -- To the Ballot -- Amen Brothers -- The Mormon Empire Strikes Back -- Proposition 8 -- Part Eight : The Road from Jersey City (2009-2012) -- Whodunit -- Meet in the Middle -- Gathering Storm -- Up Against the Wall -- Roadmap -- For Better or for Worse -- Money Talks in New York -- A Grave Price -- Campaign in a Box -- Land Rush to the Ballot -- Conversation and Inoculation -- Four Ballots -- Part Nine : Endgame (2009-2015) -- Dooming Doma -- Dave & Ted's Excellent Adventure -- Duty to Defend -- Facts of the Matter -- Appealing Stuff -- Inaction Hero -- Leading from Behind -- In the Shadow of Lady Liberty -- Shotgun Wedding -- And Then There Were Nine -- Blinding Times -- When the Dam Breaks -- Once and for All. |
| Summary |
"On June 26, 2015, the United States Supreme Court ruled that state bans on gay marriage were unconstitutional, making same-sex unions legal throughout the United States. But the road to victory was much longer than many know. In this seminal work, Sasha Issenberg takes us back to Hawaii in the 1990s, when that state's supreme court first started grappling with the issue, and traces the fight for marriage equality from the enactment of the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996 to the Goodridge decision that made Massachusetts the first state to legalize same-sex marriage, and finally to the seminal Supreme Court decisions of Windsor and Obergefell. This meticulously reported work sheds new light on every aspect of this fraught history and brings to life the perspectives of those who fought courageously for the right to marry as well as those who fervently believed that same-sex marriage would destroy the nation. It is sure to become the definitive book on one of the most important civil rights fights of our time"-- Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Same-sex marriage -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History.
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HISTORY -- United States -- 21st Century. |
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Same-sex marriage -- Law and legislation. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Issenberg, Sasha. Engagement. New York : Pantheon Books, 2020 9781524748739 (DLC) 2019051707 (OCoLC)1252970204 |
| ISBN |
9781524748746 (electronic book) |
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1524748749 (electronic book) |
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9781524748739 (hardcover) |
| Music No. |
EB00767329 Recorded Books |
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