gay marriage

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  12-5-17
  

  Discriminating in the name of religion? Segregationists and slaveholders did it, too.

  by Tisa Wenger

  The Supreme Court must reject these claims.

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• SOURCE: TPM
  10-24-17
  

  Roy Moore: Supreme Court Gay Marriage Ruling Was ‘Worse’ Than Upholding Slavery In Dred Scott

  “We’ve got to go back and recognize that what they did in Obergefell was not only to take and create a right that does not exist under the Constitution but then to mandate that that right compels Christians to give up their religious freedom and liberty.”

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• SOURCE: WaPo
  8-7-15
  

  California high school creates gay history class

  “This is history. This is an experience that happened.”

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• SOURCE: The Globe and Mail
  7-27-15
  

  Jonathan Zimmerman says homosexuality is not alien to Africa

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  It’s homophobia that is.

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• SOURCE: AP
  7-12-15
  

  Resistance to Gay Marriages Travels a Well-Worn Path

  Legal experts suggest that history might hint at how the coming months will unfold, as a handful of defiant clerks across the South and Midwest refuse to abide by the Supreme Court's ruling last month that legalized gay marriage.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  7-8-15
  

  What Does Marriage Equality Have to Do with Dred Scott?

  by Amy Davidson

  In part, Dred Scott is simply being used to give Obergefell a bad name—as pure invective, another way to call the decision rotten and the Supreme Court deluded.

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• SOURCE: YouTube
  7-2-15
  

  Video of the Week: The History Of Homosexuality On Film

  With gay marriage now legal in America, let's take a look back at how homosexuality has been portrayed on film. It's 120 years of misrepresentation in 10 minutes!

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• SOURCE: American Historical Association's Perspectives
  7-7-15 (accessed)
  

  Harvard’s Nancy Cott says the dissenters in the gay marriage case have a stilted idea of the history of marriage

  by Nancy F. Cott

  "History, like the Constitution, can be read in more than one way."

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• 7-3-15
  

  Why Liberals Shouldn’t Worry About a Backlash to the Same-Sex Marriage Ruling: An Interview with Harvard’s Michael Klarman

  by Rick Shenkman

  Professor Klarman, who’s written about the backlash triggered by the Brown decision, says the circumstances are different this time.

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• 6-30-15
  

  Stephanie Coontz’s work on the history of marriage cited by the Supreme Court.

  When Reagan-appointed Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote his gay- marriage opinion, it turns out he was channeling an Evergreen State College professor.

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• SOURCE: Process (blog of the OAH)
  7-1-15
  

  How Does It Feel To Have One’s Work as a Historian Cited by the Supreme Court? Cool. Very Cool. Thank You Very Much.

  by Hendrik Hartog

  Hendrik Hartog reflects on the Supreme Court’s decision to cite the work of historians.

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• SOURCE: Madman of Chu
  6-29-15
  

  Han Chinese Marriage: A Lesson for Chief Justice John Roberts

  by Andrew Meyer

  Marriage has evolved (much more recently than most people imagine) to become a relationship between equals, thus there is no justification to exclude same-gender couples from the marital bond.

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• SOURCE: CBS
  6-28-15
  

  Where Stonewall fits into the story

  The long path to the Supreme Court's decision began in the 1960s.  Stonewall marked a turning point. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6-26-15
  

  A New Right Grounded in the Long History of Marriage

  by David M. Perry

  Citing the work of historians that demonstrates the constant evolution of the institution, the U.S. Supreme Court decides to recognize a constitutional right to same-sex unions.

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• 6-30-15
  

  What the Gay Marriage Split Decision Says About the Current Supreme Court

  by Peter Dreier

  The Loving decision was unanimous.  This one was 5 to 4.  Earl Warren might be one big reason for the difference. 

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• SOURCE: Business Insider
  6-26-15
  

  Clarence Thomas invokes comparison to slavery in raging gay-marriage dissent

  Thomas wrote that there is no "dignity" clause in the US Constitution — and that, even if there was, the government could not bestow it upon a person or take it away.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-26-15
  

  The Price of Gay Marriage

  by Timothy Stewart-Winter

  Will the victory at the Supreme Court blind us to our history of life in the margins?

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• SOURCE: Oregonian
  6-26-15
  

  In gay marriage decision, Supreme Court turns to historians for insight

  Justice Anthony Kennedy's opinion leaned heavily on the historians' argument that, while marriage has traditionally been between one man and one woman, it has greatly evolved along with society and the law.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  6-23-15
  

  On Gay Marriage, Will the Supreme Court Favor Equal Rights or States' Rights?

  by Peter Dreier

  Should we allow each state to decide whether black Americans can marry white Americans? Today, that idea seems absurd.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-17-15
  

  When judges change their minds

  by Emily Bazelon

  Oliver Wendell Holmes first embraced throwing people in jail for holding views critical of the government.  Then, a few months later, changed his mind. When does this happen?