Why Straight America Must Stand Up for Gay Rights. Shows how the most basic and widely held values of American society demand justice for gays and lesbians.
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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Sensing "America to be at a turning point on gay issues," Mohr ( Gay Ideas ) uses often forceful, sometimes sophistic, arguments to identify gay rights with the civil rights that protect women, blacks and other minority groups. Demanding equality for the gay person "as a social creature and community member," the author urges legalization of marriage and adoption for gays. He invokes moral and legal censure of bias crimes, along with discrimination or exclusion of gays from schools, housing and employment, including the military. The tacit right to privacy, Mohr also contends, should apply to sexual activity. He also holds that "the assessment of risk of AIDS should be left to the individual," who, however, "should be viewed as morally innocent in its contagion and spread."
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
After the firestorm ignited by his Gay Ideas ( LJ 11/15/92), Mohr here returns to the mainstream of gay-rights advocacy. In the face of a mounting backlash against the gains made by gay-rights supporters, he presents a succinct handbook on the real gay agenda: equal rights. Covering such topics as gay marriage, privacy rights, and gays in the military, Mohr challenges America to extend basic civil rights protection to all its citizens. Contrary to his opponents' cry of "special rights," Mohr argues that at present, gay Americans are subject to a number of illegal practices, including housing discrimination, wrongful employment termination, and loss of child custody rights. Focusing specifically on legal aspects, Mohr has written a straightforward primer on a topic that desperately needs his thoughtful treatment. He also includes a simple ten-point plan that Americans might use to reconsider their feelings about their gay friends and family members. This book will encourage gays, enlighten non-gays, and inform everyone. Recommended for most collections.
- Jeffery Ingram, Newport P.L., Ore.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Jeffery Ingram, Newport P.L., Ore.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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This review is from: A More Perfect Union (Paperback)
I first read this book in my university's library so I would be an effective member of my University's gay straight alliance. Although I had grown up in a tolerant household, there was never any political theory, but somehow I'm convinvced my parents had a psycic connection to this book. Every thing they had taught me about justice and fairness to people in general was supported by this book. GLBT rights is not gay vs. straight or non-religious vs religion. It is equality vs. misinformation and intolerance. The world would be a much safer place for my friends if everybody read this book and took it's important moral lessons to hear
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An Amazing Book! Informative and enjoyable to read!,
By Matt Hastings (Wichita, Kansas) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A More Perfect Union: Why Straight America Must Stand Up for Gay Rights (Hardcover)
I first picked up this book to use as a research source for a University class project. However, I've read it several times since, for personal research as well as enjoyment! Richard D. Mohr obviously spent a lot of time writing a book that anyone, regardless of prior conceptions of homosexuals, or sexual orientation, can read, enjoy, and gain new insight to these important ideas and issues. I definitely rate A More Perfect Union as a five-star book. I've certainly enjoyed it time, and time again - and would recomend it to anyone for it's wit, intellectualism, and vast knowledge. Definitely a book that can be enjoyed over and over.
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A leading gay philosopher tackles essential issues,
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This review is from: A More Perfect Union (Paperback)
Mohr's book showcases a leading gay philosopher bringing his intellectual tools to bear on how society should think about issues like prejudice, sexual privacy, same-sex marriage, AIDS, and gays in the military. Mohr was inspired to write the book as a guide to how lesbians and gays can talk about these issues with their friends and public servants. But the quality of Mohr's writing and thought allow the individual essays to stand on their own as valuable commentaries, and make the book as a whole an important and accessible treatise on the range of issues where gays as citizens confront a polity often lacking not in empathy but in information.
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