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From Publishers Weekly
This succinct, cogent manifesto emphasizes that gay men and women are not seeking new or special privileges, but the ordinary rights of individual liberty and equal protection that Americans enjoy under the Constitution. The authors call for an end to discriminatory practices, anti-gay laws, vicious stereotyping, and the near-invisibility of lesbians and gay men. Resisting the fundamentalist religious right's attack on gays, they argue, constitutes a defense of real religious liberty which is predicated on tolerance and personal freedom in a pluralistic society. Moreover, they insist, the struggle for gay rights is important to everyone: "What gays and lesbians have to teach other Americans is that morality is how you live and how you conduct yourself, not what you happen to be." Nava, a lawyer and writer of mystery novels, and Dawidoff, a history professor at the Claremont Graduate School in Southern California, have produced an eloquent, closely argued benchmark document.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Lawyer and author Nava and historian Dawidoff have here succeeded in writing the most comprehensive, readable, and persuasive primer on gay rights to date. According to the authors, the issue is fundamentally a question of privacy rights implicitly granted with precedent to all by the Consitution but denied to homosexuals by the illogically decided 1986 Supreme Court ruling, Bowers v. Hardwick. The authors have revitalized that most organic of political documents, the U.S. Constitution, by arguing that basic human and civil rights are being denied to gays and lesbians based on arguments not constitutionally applicable, namely, the sectarian beliefs of one particular segment of society. Among the topics discussed are gay rights within the context of the Constitution, gay rights and proscriptive biblical interpretation, double standards in the strategies of anti-gay rights advocates, and much more. Similar in tone and outlook to Richard Mohr's A More Perfect Union (LJ 3/1/94), Nava and Dawidoff's book is more encompassing in scope and more thoroughly researched. An intellectually brisk and persuasive book that is highly recommended for all 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.
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This succinct, cogent manifesto emphasizes that gay men and women are not seeking new or special privileges, but the ordinary rights of individual liberty and equal protection that Americans enjoy under the Constitution. The authors call for an end to discriminatory practices, anti-gay laws, vicious stereotyping, and the near-invisibility of lesbians and gay men. Resisting the fundamentalist religious right's attack on gays, they argue, constitutes a defense of real religious liberty which is predicated on tolerance and personal freedom in a pluralistic society. Moreover, they insist, the struggle for gay rights is important to everyone: "What gays and lesbians have to teach other Americans is that morality is how you live and how you conduct yourself, not what you happen to be." Nava, a lawyer and writer of mystery novels, and Dawidoff, a history professor at the Claremont Graduate School in Southern California, have produced an eloquent, closely argued benchmark document.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Lawyer and author Nava and historian Dawidoff have here succeeded in writing the most comprehensive, readable, and persuasive primer on gay rights to date. According to the authors, the issue is fundamentally a question of privacy rights implicitly granted with precedent to all by the Consitution but denied to homosexuals by the illogically decided 1986 Supreme Court ruling, Bowers v. Hardwick. The authors have revitalized that most organic of political documents, the U.S. Constitution, by arguing that basic human and civil rights are being denied to gays and lesbians based on arguments not constitutionally applicable, namely, the sectarian beliefs of one particular segment of society. Among the topics discussed are gay rights within the context of the Constitution, gay rights and proscriptive biblical interpretation, double standards in the strategies of anti-gay rights advocates, and much more. Similar in tone and outlook to Richard Mohr's A More Perfect Union (LJ 3/1/94), Nava and Dawidoff's book is more encompassing in scope and more thoroughly researched. An intellectually brisk and persuasive book that is highly recommended for all 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.
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