Finding room for same-sex marriage: Toward a more inclusive understanding of a cultural institution

Journal of Social Philosophy

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 331-343

  Buccola, Nicholas ^a  

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EID: 34247649820     PISSN: 00472786     EISSN: 14679833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9833.2005.00279.x     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. See Alan Cooperman, "Little Consensus on Marriage Amendment", Washington Post, February 14, 2004, A1.
2. Douglas Kmiec, "Just What Is Marriage Anyway?" Los Angeles Times, Wednesday, November 19, 2003, B15.
3. Lawrence E. Harrison and Samuel P. Huntington, eds., Culture Matters (New York: Basic Books, 2001), xv.
4. John Rawls, Political Liberalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993).
5. Stephen Macedo, Liberal Virtues (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990), 63-64.
6. Some natural law theorists emphasize the importance of procreation more than others. See, for example, Hadley Arkes, "The Role of Nature", in Same Sex Marriage-Pro & Con: A Reader, ed. Andrew Sullivan (New York: Vintage, 1997), 276 [hereinafter: Same-Sex, Sullivan, page number].
7. For a discussion of the double standard problem, see Stephen Macedo, "Homosexuality and the Conservative Mind", Georgetown Law Journal 84(1995):278.
8. John Finnis, "Is Natural Law Theory Compatible with Limited Government?" in Natural Law, Liberalism, and Morality, ed. Robert P. George (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996), 12-13.
9. Robert P. George and Gerard V. Bradley, "Marriage and the Liberal Imagination", Georgetown Law Journal 84(1995):304. Emphasis in original.
10. Rawls, Political Liberalism, 144. Emphasis added.
11. William Bennett, "Leave Marriage Alone", in Same-Sex, Sullivan, 275.
12. Joseph Raz, The Morality of Freedom (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), 207.