Same-Sex Marriage: The Personal and the Political

Type

Book

Authors

Kevin Alderson

Kathleen A. Lahey

ISBN 10

1894663632

ISBN 13

9781894663632

Tags

Nonfiction, Gay & Lesbian

Description

In the past three years, Canada has witnessed landmark court rulings in Ontario, B.C. and Quebec making it legal for gay men and lesbian women to marry. Legislation in the Netherlands and Belgium have also extended marriage to same-sex couples. Legal challenges before the U.S. courts in Hawaii, Vermont, Massachusetts, Oregon and California have had the same goal in mind. The same-sex marriage phenomenon is characterized on the one hand by intense personal joys and on the other by long-standing activism and historic legal reasoning. - from Amzon

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