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Foreword: The Jurisprudence Of Reconstruction, Angela Harris
Foreword: The Jurisprudence Of Reconstruction, Angela Harris
Angela P Harris
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Shaky Grounds: The Case Against The Case Against Antidiscrimination Laws [Review Essay On Richard Epstein, Forbidden Grounds], Peter Siegelman
Shaky Grounds: The Case Against The Case Against Antidiscrimination Laws [Review Essay On Richard Epstein, Forbidden Grounds], Peter Siegelman
Peter Siegelman
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A Moral Justification For Gay And Lesbian Civil Rights Legislation, Vincent Samar
A Moral Justification For Gay And Lesbian Civil Rights Legislation, Vincent Samar
Vincent Samar
This essay explores, in two parts, the problems of justifying civil rights legislation for gays, lesbians, and bisexuals. Part I shows that discrimination against gays and lesbians at least in respect to employment, housing, and public accommodations is an evil unsupported by ethical traditions in utilitarianism, rights theory, and communitarianism. It also shows that two theories, Kantian theory and natural law theory, which do support such discrimination on the claim that homoerotic behavior is universally or objectively immoral only do so because of a failure to make precise the concept of "natural" which underlies those theories. Part II argues that …