America’s War On Same-Sex Couples And Their Families by Daniel R. Pinello

America’s War On Same-Sex Couples And Their Families

and how the courts rescued them

Daniel R. Pinello

America’s War on Same-Sex Couples and Their Families is a legal, political, and social history of constitutional amendments in twenty American states (with 43 percent of the nation’s population) that prohibited government recognition of all forms of relationship rights (marriage, civil unions, and domestic partnerships) for same-sex couples. Based on 175 interviews with gay and lesbian pairs in Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, and Wisconsin, the volume has great human-interest value and chronicles how same-sex couples and their children coped within harsh legal environments. The work ends with a lively explanation of how the federal judiciary rescued these families from their own governments. In addition, the book provides a model of the grassroots circumstances under which harassed minority groups migrate out of oppressive state regimes, together with an estimate of the economic and other costs (to the refugees and their governments) of the flight from persecution.


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ISBN 9781316402351
Genre Family; LGBT Studies/Social Sciences
Publication Date 08-Jul-05
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Format Paperback
No. of Pages 344
LoC Classification HQ1034.U5 .P556 2016
Subject Same-sex Marriage – Law And Legislation – United States; Same-sex Marriage – United States
BookID 252960

Author: LFWBooks