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[David A. J. Richards] ↠ Identity and the Case for Gay Rights: Race, Gender, Religion as Analogies ☆ Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Identity and the Case for Gay Rights: Race, Gender, Religion as Analogies 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.. As in these movements, achieving gay rights require
| Title | : | Identity and the Case for Gay Rights: Race, Gender, Religion as Analogies |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.96 (914 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0226712095 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 241 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-29 |
| Language | : | English |
Brilliant Case for Gay Rights Amazon Customer Richards has advanced the constitutional argumentation for gay rights in a profound way. He has analogized the case for gay rights to arguments for racial, gender, and religious equality and concluded that attempts to find a genetic or "innate" basis for homosexuality are no more likely to provide grounds for equality than to provide grounds for continued inequality and discr
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.. As in these movements, achieving gay rights requires eliminating unjust stereotypes and allowing one's identity to develop free from intolerant views. 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. Richards stresses, however, that gay identity is an ethical choice based on gender equality
--Julia Riches. By aligning gay rights most closely with religious liberty and other First Amendment values such as free speech and association, Richards is able to preserve both the ideas of identity and choice: like spirituality, sexual orientation is part of who you are and a matter of individual conscience. Richards finds the analogy to religious toleration most apt and useful as a model for those struggling for recognition of gay rights. The burdens moral slavery places on individual's identity formation are similar to those associated with discrimination on the basis of race, gender, and religion, and are similarly unconstitutional and inhumane. This is a beautifully written and powerfully argued piece of scholarship from a highly regarded
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