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xiii, 330 pages ; 23 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-307) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. State judicial interpretations of super-DOMAs -- Ohio State-Court action -- Michigan State-Court action -- Wisconsin State-Court action -- Other State-Court action -- Understanding the lack of further State-Court super-DOMA [Defense of Marriage Act] litigation -- 3. The effects of super-DOMAs on same-sex couples -- The initial shock : personal devastation and isolation -- Positive effects -- Super-DOMAs as impediments to change -- Health care -- The limitations of legal paperwork -- Employment discrimination -- Housing discrimination -- Public hazing when changing names -- Tax penalties -- Alienation from family, friends, and associates -- Fear, insecurity, and emotional loss -- Little things -- Wisconsin's Domestic-Partner Registry as a rights touchstone -- Inability to divorce or otherwise access legal remedies -- 4. The effects of super-DOMAs on families with children being raised by same-sex couples -- Michigan and Ohio -- North Carolina -- Wisconsin -- Texas -- Georgia -- The value of having two legal parents raising children in households headed by same-sex couples -- The added costs of raising children in LGBT families -- The message to the children -- Marrying out of state to solidify and clarify intrafamily relationships -- When parents were separated -- Other challenges for same-sex couples raising children -- 5. Super-DOMAs and LGBT migration: fight or flight? -- An estimate of LGBT emigrants from super-DOMA states -- Other relevant migrations -- Knowledge and appreciation of the threat to well-being -- Loyalty to country or state -- The bubble effect -- Family ties -- An expectation of legal or political redemption -- Economic issues -- The impact of traditionally gendered relationship roles -- Internalized homophobic social stigma -- The ability to pass as members of the majority or otherwise play the system -- Same-sex couples who left super-DOMA stats partially or temporarily -- Same-sex couples who did emigrate permanently -- Super-DOMA effects on immigration into super-DOMA states -- 6. How the federal courts rescued same-sex couples and their families -- The impact of lower federal courts -- The legal precedents -- The lower federal courts' lopsided interpretations of Windsor -- the impacts of good fortune and political party -- The importance of precedent -- Justice Scalia as a double agent -- The alternative to judicial action : the Roberts-Scalia-Alito thesis of waiting, and waiting, and waiting for the democratic process -- 7. Conclusion -- did super-DOMAs in fact defend and protect marriage? -- The economic losses to super-DOMA states -- Sponsor motivations for super-DOMAs : bigotry or not? -- Judicial efficacy -- Appendix A. The texts of super-DOMAs. |
| Summary |
"America's War on Same-Sex Couples and Their Families is a legal, political, and social history of constitutional amendments in twenty American states (with 43 percent of the nation's population) that prohibited government recognition of all forms of relationship rights (marriage, civil unions, and domestic partnerships) for same-sex couples. Based on 175 interviews with gay and lesbian pairs in Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, and Wisconsin, the volume has great human-interest value and chronicles how same-sex couples and their children coped within harsh legal environments. The work ends with a lively explanation of how the federal judiciary rescued these families from their own governments. In addition, the book provides a model of the grassroots circumstances under which harassed minority groups migrate out of oppressive state regimes, together with an estimate of the economic and other costs (to the refugees and their governments) of the flight from persecution"-- Provided by publisher. |
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"America's War on Same-Sex Couples and Their Families is a legal, political, and social history of constitutional amendments in twenty American states (with 43 percent of the nation's population) that prohibited government recognition of all forms of relationship rights (marriage, civil unions, and domestic partnerships) for same-sex couples. Based on 175 interviews with gay and lesbian pairs in Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, and Wisconsin, the volume has great human-interest value and chronicles how samesex couples and their children coped within harsh legal environments"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Same-sex marriage -- United States.
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Same-sex marriage -- Law and legislation -- United States.
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Same-sex marriage. (OCoLC)fst01104555
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Same-sex marriage -- Law and legislation.
(OCoLC)fst01104557
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| ISBN |
9781107123595 (hardback) |
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1107123593 (hardback) |
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9781107559004 (paper back) |
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1107559006 (paper back) |
| Standard No. |
40026548592 |
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40026552986 |
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