Response to Martha Nussbaum

California Law Review

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 721-730

  Warner, Michael ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (37)

1. See Frank Rich, The Bigots' Last Hurrah, N.Y. TIMES, Apr. 19, 2009, at 10.
2. Generational divides appear in all the polls I have seen. See, e.g., THE PEW FORUM ON RELIGION & PUBLIC LIFE, REPUBLICANS UNIFIED, DEMOCRATS SPLIT ON GAY MARRIAGE: RELIGIOUS BELIEFS UNDERPIN OPPOSITION TO HOMOSEXUALITY (2003), http://pewfomm.org/uploadedfiles/Topics/Issues/Gay-Marriage-and-Homosexuality/ religion-homosexualiry.pdf;
3. Jeffrey M. Jones, Majority of Americans Continue to Oppose Gay Marriage, GALLUP, May 27, 2009, http://www.gallup.com/poll/118378/Majority-Americans- Continue-Oppose-Gay-Marriage.aspx.
4. An instructive meta-analysis appears in Jeffrey Lax & Justin Phillips, Gay Rights in the States: Public Opinion and Policy Responsiveness, 103 AM. POL. SCI. REV. 367 (2009).
5. On the limitations of the prevailing common sense about marriage, see STEPHANIE COONTZ, MARRIAGE, A HISTORY (2005);
6. STEPHANIE COONTZ, THE WAY WE NEVER WERE (2000 ed. 2000);
7. MICHAEL WARNER, THE TROUBLE WITH NORMAL (1999).
8. This was Andrew Sullivan's argument for gay marriage in ANDREW SULLIVAN, VIRTUALLY NORMAL (Vintage Books 1996) (1995).
9. Martha C. Nussbaum, A Right to Marry?, 98 CALIF. L. REV. 667, 678-84 (2010).
10. This point has been made repeatedly by historians, though politicians prove surprisingly resistant to knowledge on this point. See, e.g., NANCY F. COTT, PUBLIC VOWS (Harvard Univ. Press 2002) (2000);
11. COONTZ, THE WAY WE NEVER WERE, supra note 3.
12. For an illuminating analysis of marriage rituals in one such context, see Elinor O. Keenan, A Sliding Sense of Obligatoriness: The Poly-Structure of Malagasy Oratory, 2 LANGUAGE IN SOCIETY 225-43 (1973).
13. One prominent example is Sylviane Agacinski. See the illuminating discussion m Ene Fassui, Same Sex, Different Politics: "Gay Marriage" Debates in France and the United States, 13 PUBLIC CULTURE 215-32 (2001).
14. See Mary Anne Case, Marriage Licenses, 89 MINN. L. REV. 1758, 1767-68 (2005).
15. A WEST-COUNTRY MAN'S VOYAGE TO NEW ENGLAND (ca. 1632), reprinted in THE ENGLISH LITERATURES OF AMERICA, 1500-1800, at 533 (Myra Jehlen & Michael Warner eds., 1997).
16. Nussbaum, supra note 5, at 672.
17. Varnum v. Brien, 763 N.W.2d 862, 873 (Iowa 2009).
18. Kerrigan v. Comm'r of Pub. Health, 957 A.2d 407 (Conn. 2008).
19. Id. at 414.
20. Id. at 412 (emphasis added).
21. Id. at 416; see WARNER, supra note 3.
22. See WARNER, supra note 3.
23. Kerrigan, 957 A.2d at 433-34
24. (citing Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186 (1986),
25. overruled on other grounds by Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003)).
26. Id. at 416 (quoting Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479, 486 (1965)) ("[M]arriage has been characterized as 'intimate to the degree of being sacred.'").
27. Id.
28. Id. at 417 (quoting Goodridge v. Dep't of Pub. Health, 798 N.E.2d 941, 954 (Mass. 2003)).
29. Id. at 418.
30. Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003).
31. Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992).
32. Kerrigan, 957 A.2d at 466
33. (quoting Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558, 573-74 (2003)).
34. Id. at 438 (quoting Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558, 576-77 (2003)).
35. Id.
36. Id. at 466 (quoting Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558, 577-78 (2003)).
37. Nussbaum, supra note 5, at 672.