Resistance to same-sex marriage as a story about language: linguistic failure and the priority of a living language

Article Abstract:

Government efforts to undo gay marriage speech lack linguistic credibility and cause harm, both individually and collectively. The 'unsaying' of gay marriage is undemocratic, intimidates the speakers, and encourages censorship of marriage speech generally. Unsaying is linguistically unsound because it tries to freeze an evolving language. Although the constitutional aspects of the legal unsaying of marriage are debatable, common sense dictates the inappropriateness of efforts to stop this evolution.

Author: Kuykendall, Mae
Publisher: Harvard Law School
Publication Name: Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0017-8039
Year: 1999
Law, Same-sex marriage, Sociolinguistics, Legal language, Language and culture

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Public and private child: Troxel v. Granville and the constitutional rights of family members

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The author explores the legal issues regarding third party visitation rights and changing family models which extend child caregivers beyond biological bonds in light of the US Supreme Court's decision in Troxel v. Granville.

Author: Bell, Alessia
Publisher: Harvard Law School
Publication Name: Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0017-8039
Year: 2001
Visitation rights (Domestic relations), Third parties (Law), Parent and child (Law), Custody of children, Child custody

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Marriage as a trade: bridging the private/private distinction

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The author explores how business models of partnership, corporation, and limited liability are similar to cohabitation, marriage, and multiple name usage and could aid in reforming family law.

Author: Ertman, Martha M.
Publisher: Harvard Law School
Publication Name: Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0017-8039
Year: 2001
Models, Commercial law, Marriage, Family

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