Identity and the Case for Gay Rights: Race, Gender, Religion as Analogies - Softcover

Richards, David A. J. A. J.

 
9780226712093: Identity and the Case for Gay Rights: Race, Gender, Religion as Analogies
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226712095 ISBN 13: 9780226712093
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

How should we chart a course toward legal recognition of gay rights as basic human rights? In this enlightening study, legal scholar David Richards explores the connections between gay rights and three successful civil rights movements—black civil rights, feminism, and religious toleration—to determine how these might serve as analogies for the gay rights movement.

Richards argues that racial and gender struggles are informative but partial models. As in these movements, achieving gay rights requires eliminating unjust stereotypes and allowing one's identity to develop free from intolerant views. Richards stresses, however, that gay identity is an ethical choice based on gender equality. Thus the right to religious freedom offers the most compelling analogy for a gay rights movement because gay identity should be protected legally as an ethical decision of conscience.

A thoughtful and highly original voice in the struggle for gay rights, David Richards is the first to argue that discrimination is like religious intolerance-denial of full humanity to individuals because of their identity and moral commitments to gender equality.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226712095
ISBN 13 
9780226712093
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
246
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