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Fordham Law School

1998

Same-sex marriage

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Deliberative Democracy, Overlapping Consensus, And Same-Sex Marriage, Linda C. Mcclain Jan 1998

Deliberative Democracy, Overlapping Consensus, And Same-Sex Marriage, Linda C. Mcclain

Fordham Law Review

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If Not Marriage? On Securing Gay And Lesbian Family Values By A "Simulacrum Of Marriage", Craig W. Christensen Jan 1998

If Not Marriage? On Securing Gay And Lesbian Family Values By A "Simulacrum Of Marriage", Craig W. Christensen

Fordham Law Review

The benefits of [homosexual] marriage may outweigh the costs. Nonetheless, since the public hostility to homosexuals in this country is too widespread to make homosexual marriage a feasible proposal even if it is on balance cost-justified, maybe the focus should be shifted to an intermediated solution that would give gomosexuals most of what they want . . . . . . . What . . . is called registered partnership and . . . homosexual cohabitation [in some countries] is in effect a form contract that comosexuals can use to create a simulacrum of marriage. Richard A. Posner, Sex and …