Public dilemmas and gay marriage: Contra Jordan

Journal of Social Philosophy

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 9-16

  Beyer, Jason A ^a  

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EID: 34247443169     PISSN: 00472786     EISSN: 14679833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9833.00120     Document Type: Review

References (9)

1. Jeff Jordan, "Is It Wrong to Discriminate on the Basis of Homosexuality?" Journal of Social Philosophy 26, no. 1 (1995). Reprinted in Social and Personal Ethics, 3rd ed., ed. W. H. Shaw (Belmont: Wadsworth, 1999). Page references are to reprint.
2. See Susan Moller Okin, Justice, Gender, and the Family (New York: Basic, 1989) for an insightful critique of the public/private distinction. Even if there is a principled way to draw the distinction, the fact that it is a "tricky" one should shake our confidence in Jordan's position.
3. Jordan, "Is It Wrong?" 365-66.
4. See Burton M. Leiser, "Homosexuality, Morals, and the Laws of Nature", in Ethics in Practice, ed. H. LaFollette (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 1997); reprinted in Shaw, Social and Personal Ethics.
5. See Lovings v. Virginia, 388 U. S. 1 (1967). Thanks to Vincent Samar for bringing this case to my attention.
6. see Craig R. Dean, "Gay Marriage: A Civil Right", Journal of Homosexuality 27, nos. 3-4(1994):111-15.
7. See also Mark Strasser, Legally Wed (Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 1997), chap. 3.
8. see William A. Galston, Liberal Purposes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
9. Even Rawls is now willing to admit this; see his Political Liberalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993).