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A discussion of Stephen Macedo Just Married: Same-Sex Couples, Monogamy & the Future of Marriage

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 August 2016

Joseph J. Fischel
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Abstract

On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in Obergefell v. Hodges, that the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution forbids legal discrimination against same-sex marriage. The decision sent shock waves throughout the country, with both supporters and opponents regarding it as signal of dramatic shifts in public opinion and a revolutionary development on the road to sex-gender equality. Just two days earlier, on June 24, 2015, Stephen Macedo’s Just Married: Same-Sex Couples, Monogamy, and the Future of Marriage was published. Macedo has always worked at the intersection of legal theory, normative theory, and public policy, and Just Married offers a nuanced liberal democratic defense of marriage equality with striking resonance in light of Obergefell. We have thus invited a range of scholars on LGBT rights, and LGBT politics more generally, to comment on his book.

Type
Review Symposium: Just Married
Information
Perspectives on Politics , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , September 2016 , pp. 795 - 796
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 2016 

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