Untying the Knot: Marriage, the State, and the Case for Their Divorce
I picked up Tamara Metz's book expecting to disagree with the main points of her argument. To my surprise, I found myself in agreement with large parts of it., I am a conservative. Unlike liberals such as Metz, who question social commitments to transcendent goods, conservatives believe in thei...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2011
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2011, Volume: 53, Issue: 1, Pages: 132-133 |
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| Summary: | I picked up Tamara Metz's book expecting to disagree with the main points of her argument. To my surprise, I found myself in agreement with large parts of it., I am a conservative. Unlike liberals such as Metz, who question social commitments to transcendent goods, conservatives believe in their maintenance and promotion. On this basic premise, she and I disagree., That said, Metz does not deliver the standard liberal arguments. She questions deeply the recent same-sex marriage cases. Take, for instance, her treatment of In re Marriage Cases, 43 Cal. 4th 757 (2008). The opinion has an undercurrent of tension, she asserts, that is never satisfactorily resolved. Marriage, the court says, is fundamental to society. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csq099 |