Liberal Constitutionalism, Marriage, and Sexual Orientation
Subtitle: A Contemporary Case for Dis-Establishment (Teaching Texts in Law and Politics, V. 15)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: November 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 155
ISBN-13: 9780820455334
Subjects: Marriage law; United States; Legal status, laws, etc; Law; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Same-sex marriage; Research; Legal status, laws, etc; Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice; General; Gays; Law and legislation
Description: "Liberal Constitutionalism, Marriage, and Sexual Orientation: A Contemporary Case for Dis-Establishment uses constitutional theory and political philosophy to shed light on an elusive feature of American jurisprudence: the establishment of a sectarian preference in the law to the detriment of American citizens who happen to be gay or lesbian and who wish to exercise their fundamental right to marry.

Reviewing aspects of liberal-democratic theory, marriage law, and pertinent analogies that deal with the right to marry, Gordon Albert Babst presents the notion of the "shadow establishment," which makes the best sense of a constitutional affirmation of bias against same-sex marriage and gay persons in the law."--BOOK JACKET.