By Ian Ayres,Jennifer Gerarda Brown
ISBN-10: 0691121346
ISBN-13: 9780691121345
What can directly humans do to help homosexual rights? How a lot paintings or sacrifice needs to allies tackle to do their proportion? Ian Ayres and Jennifer Brown--law professors, activists, husband and wife--propose functional concepts for aiding directly women and men suggest for and with the homosexual community.
Straightforward advances a thesis that's right now basic and groundbreaking: to make genuine growth on the crucial flashpoints of controversy--marriage rights, employment discrimination, gays within the army, exclusion from the Boy Scouts, and spiritual controversies over homosexuality--straight in addition to homosexual humans have to converse up and act for equality. Ayres and Brown take objective at either the hearts and minds of most people, targeting options which can swap the incentives and accordingly the habit of the recalcitrant.
The ebook is peppered with tales approximately genuine humans and the choices they've got confronted at domestic, in church, at paintings, at school, and in politics. it's also packed with inventive felony and fiscal innovations for influencing public and company decision-making. for instance, Ayres and Brown suggest the advance of a "fair employment mark" to aid businesses put up for sale inclusive employment regulations. additionally they express how an easy pledge to holiday in states that legalize homosexual marriage can create strong incentives for legislatures to amend their marriage laws.
Engagingly written and certain to spark debate, Straightforward grants to alter the way in which the US thinks about--and participates in--the homosexual rights movement.
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