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1 online resource (x, 241 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-235) and index. |
| Contents |
Marriage barred by definition -- Equal protection -- The fundamental interest in marriage -- The custody and adoption of children -- Full faith and credit -- The Defense of Marriage Act. |
| Summary |
Mark Strasser examines the issue of same-sex marriage in light of contemporary constitutional and domestic relations law, showing why the usual arguments against the state's 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. |
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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 policies 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. Arguably, it does not give states additional rights with respect to which marriages they need not recognize, but only with respect to 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 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. |
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In a reasoned response to conservative arguments about marriage, Legally Wed explicates established and evolving legal principles, and shows how invidiously these have been applied to the issues of gay rights in general and same-sex unions in particular. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Same-sex marriage -- United States.
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Same-sex marriage. |
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United States. |
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Constitutional law -- United States.
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Constitutional law. |
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Gay couples -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
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Gay couples -- Legal status, laws, etc. |
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Electronic books.
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Same-sex marriage. |
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Gay couples. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Strasser, Mark Philip, 1955- Legally wed. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, ©1997 0801434068 (DLC) 96050344 (OCoLC)35990362 |
| ISBN |
9781501717727 (electronic book) |
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1501717723 (electronic book) |
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0801434068 |
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9780801434068 |
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0801484294 |
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9780801484292 |
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