03903nam 22009613u 450 991080964150332120230721025523.01-281-09399-897866110939901-59213-402-5(CKB)1000000000339855(EBL)298861(OCoLC)476074918(SSID)ssj0000131568(PQKBManifestationID)11159928(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000131568(PQKBWorkID)10026081(PQKB)10425024(MiAaPQ)EBC298861(EXLCZ)99100000000033985520131216d2008|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrCourts Liberalism And Rights[electronic resource] Gay Law And Politics In The United States and CanadaPhiladelphia Temple University Press20081 online resource (265 p.)Queer Politics Queer TheoriesDescription based upon print version of record.1-59213-400-9 Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 U.S. Federal Courts and Gay Rights: A History of Hesitancy; 3 Liberalism and Gay Politics: Rights and Their Critics; 4 Toward a Better Liberalism; 5 Sodomy Laws, Courts, and Liberalism; 6 Lessons from Continued Sodomy Adjudication; 7 Courts and Same-Sex Marriage in the United States:Hawaii and Alaska; 8 Courts and Same-Sex Marriage in the United States: Vermont; 9 Developments after Vermont: An Evolving Jurisprudence and Its Backlash; 10 Canada: Rethinking Courts, Rights, and Liberalism; 11 Courts, Social Change, and the Power of Legal Liberalism12 ConclusionNotes; IndexIn the courts, the best chance for achieving a broad set of rights for gays and lesbians lies with judges who view liberalism as grounded in an expansion of rights rather than a constraint of government activity. At a time when most gay and lesbian politics focuses only on the issue of gay marriage, Courts, Liberalism, and Rights guides readers through a nuanced discussion of liberalism, court rulings on sodomy laws and same-sex marriage, and the comparative progress gays and lesbians have made via the courts in Canada. As debates continue about the ability of courtQueer Politics Queer TheoriesCanadaCourtsGay rightsHomosexualityHomosexualityLaw and legislationLiberalismLiberalismUnited StatesHomosexualityLaw and legislationUnited StatesGay rightsLaw and legislationUnited StatesHomosexualityCanadaGay rightsCanadaCourtsLiberalismConstitutional Law - U.SHILCCLaw - U.SHILCCLaw, Politics & GovernmentHILCCCanada.Courts.Gay rights.Homosexuality.Homosexuality.Law and legislation.Liberalism.Liberalism.United States.HomosexualityLaw and legislationGay rightsLaw and legislationHomosexualityGay rightsCourtsLiberalismConstitutional Law - U.S.Law - U.S.Law, Politics & Government306.7660973342.7108/7342.71087Pierceson Jason1158913AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910809641503321Courts Liberalism And Rights3999120UNINA