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BIGOTRY, TIME, AND MORAL PROGRESS - Who's the Bigot? Learning from Conflicts over Marriage and Civil Rights Law. By Linda C. McClain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 304. $39.95 (cloth); $26.99 (digital). ISBN: 9780190877200.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 August 2021

Justin Buckley Dyer
Justin Buckley Dyer*
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Professor of Political Science, University of Missouri
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bigotryconsciencemarriagecivil rightsprogressLinda McClain
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Book Review Symposium: Who's the Bigot?
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Journal of Law and Religion , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , August 2021 , pp. 328 - 333
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References

1 Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1, 12 (1967).

2 Black's Law Dictionary, 4th ed. (St. Paul: West, 1951), s.v. “Marriage.”

3 Loving, 388 U.S. at 12 (1967).

4 Baker v. Nelson, 191 N.W.2d 185, 187 (Minn. 1971).

5 Baker v. Nelson, 409 U.S. 810 (1972).

6 Brief for the Petitioner at 10, Nelson, 409 U.S. 810 (No. 71-1027).

7 Brief for the Petitioner at 10.

8 Brief for the Petitioner at 10.

9 Romer v. Evans, 517 U.S. 620 (1996); Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003); U.S. v. Windsor, 570 U.S. 744 (2013); Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644 (2015).

10 Nelson, 191 N.W.2d at 187.

11 See, for example, Lee, Patrick and George, Robert P., Conjugal Union: What Marriage Is and Why It Matters (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

12 Kendi, Ibram X., How to Be an Antiracist (New York: One World, 2019), 19Google Scholar.

13 For an exploration of the question, see “Enlightenment Liberalism Is Losing Ground in the Debate about Race: A New Ideology Is Emerging,” The Economist, July 11, 2020, 53–56.

14 Brake, Elizabeth, Minimizing Marriage (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), xCrossRefGoogle Scholar.