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.
Publication Name: Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0017-8039
Year: 1999
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Public and private child: Troxel v. Granville and the constitutional rights of family members
Article Abstract:
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.
Publication Name: Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0017-8039
Year: 2001
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Marriage as a trade: bridging the private/private distinction
Article Abstract:
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.
Publication Name: Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0017-8039
Year: 2001
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: When illness takes sex out of a relationship. Sexuality and the HIV-positive individual
- Abstracts: Spatial price discrimination and the merger paradox. Sectoral spillovers and the price of land: a cost analysis
- Abstracts: Access to sexuality information for out-of-home youth. Sexuality issues for the disabled: development of a unified school policy
- Abstracts: Decision-making in research and development collaboration. Technology policy and the regions - the case of the BioRegio contest
- Abstracts: From the therapeutic society to the regulatory state: theoretical issues in studying privacy and publicity. The top 10 privacy stories of 2000