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Democracy, Kulturkampf, And The Apartheid Of The Closet, William N. Eskridge, Jr.
Democracy, Kulturkampf, And The Apartheid Of The Closet, William N. Eskridge, Jr.
Vanderbilt Law Review
In the generation after World War 2 (1945-69), homosexual intimacy was a serious crime in Colorado and other states, as was any kind of "lewdness" or homosexual solicitation; people suspected of being homosexual were routinely dismissed from federal, state, and private employment.' In the generation after Stonewall (1969-97), Colorado's legislature repealed the state's consensual sodomy law, and the governor by executive order prohibited state employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. The cities of Aspen, Boulder, and Denver enacted ordinances prohibiting private sexual orientation discrimination in housing, employment, education, public accommodations, and health and welfare services. In 1992, the …
Is Democracy Like Sex?, Glenn H. Reynolds
Is Democracy Like Sex?, Glenn H. Reynolds
Vanderbilt Law Review
Despite the end of the Cold War, democracy seems to be in bad shape these days. In fact, there has been a modest boom in books and commentary proclaiming either the inadequacy of democracy or its imminent demise. According to at least one commentator, we face the possibility that American democracy will turn out to be a failure. Much has also been made of the gloomy assessments of American democracy contained in recent books by Christopher Lasch and Jean Bethke Elshtain. Such gloom seems a natural follow-on to the generally negative evaluations of democracy as a decision-making device provided by …