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Identity and the Case for Gay Rights

Identity and the Case for Gay Rights

Race, Gender, Religion as Analogies

by David A. J. Richards
Paperback
Publication Date: 15/01/2000

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How should we chart a course toward legal recognition of gay rights as basic human rights? In this enlightening study, legal scholar David Richards explores the connections between gay rights and three successful civil rights movements-black civil rights, feminism, and religious toleration-to determine how these might serve as analogies for the gay rights movement.

Richards argues that racial and gender struggles are informative but partial models. As in these movements, achieving gay rights requires eliminating unjust stereotypes and allowing one's identity to develop free from intolerant views. Richards stresses, however, that gay identity is an ethical choice based on gender equality. Thus the right to religious freedom offers the most compelling analogy for a gay rights movement because gay identity should be protected legally as an ethical decision of conscience.

A thoughtful and highly original voice in the struggle for gay rights, David Richards is the first to argue that discrimination is like religious intolerance-denial of full humanity to individuals because of their identity and moral commitments to gender equality.
ISBN:
9780226712093
9780226712093
Category:
Human rights
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
15-01-2000
Language:
English
Publisher:
The University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:
United States
Edition:
2nd Edition
Pages:
241
Dimensions (mm):
22x14x2mm
Weight:
0.34kg

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