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Gay Rights (gay + right)

Distribution by Scientific Domains
Humanities and Social Sciences60%

Selected Abstracts

Gay Rights and Moral Panic: The Origins of America's Debate on Homosexuality by Fred Fejes

THE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE, Issue 4 2009
Peter Cava
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Denying equality: an analysis of arguments against lowering the age of consent for sex between men

JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY & APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 3 2002
Sonja J. Ellis
Abstract This paper takes a human rights approach to lesbian and gay oppression and critically explores the arguments used to oppose equality in debates about the age of consent for sex between men. A thematic analysis of Hansard and newspaper reports produced in Britain during the 1990s showed that opponents of a proposal to equalize the age of consent countered with three key arguments: (1) principles of right and wrong take precedence over equality; (2) principles of democracy take precedence over equality; (3) principles of care and protection take precedence over equality. Two additional arguments (concerning the health risks of anal intercourse and escalating demands for gay rights) are also outlined. Our findings are discussed with reference to debates on other lesbian and gay rights issues and we consider the ways in which these arguments might best be resisted. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

Common Schools and Uncommon Conversations: Education, Religious Speech and Public Spaces

JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION, Issue 4 2007
KENNETH A. STRIKE
This paper discusses the role of religious speech in the public square and the common school. It argues for more openness to political theology than many liberals are willing to grant and for an educational strategy of engagement over one of avoidance. The paper argues that the exclusion of religious debate from the public square has dysfunctional consequences. It discusses Rawls's more recent views on public reason and claims that, while they are not altogether adequate, they are consistent with engagement. The outcome of these arguments is applied to three ,hot button' issues in US education: creationism, an issue of gay rights, and teaching the Bible in schools. [source]

Party Identification, Issue Attitudes, and the Dynamics of Political Debate

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, Issue 3 2010
Logan Dancey
This article investigates whether media coverage of elite debate surrounding an issue moderates the relationship between individual-level partisan identities and issue preferences. We posit that when the news media cover debate among partisan elites on a given issue, citizens update their party identities and issue attitudes. We test this proposition for a quartet of prominent issues debated during the first Clinton term: health care reform, welfare reform, gay rights, and affirmative action. Drawing on data from the Vanderbilt Television News Archives and the 1992-93-94-96 NES panel, we demonstrate that when partisan debate on an important issue receives extensive media coverage, partisanship systematically affects,and is affected by,issue attitudes. When the issue is not being contested, dynamic updating between party ties and issue attitudes ceases. [source]

Negotiating alliances: Muslims, gay rights and the Christian right in a Polish-American city (Respond to this article at http://www.therai.org.uk/at/debate)

ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY, Issue 2 2010
Alisa Perkins
Muslim involvement in debates over municipal gay rights legislation became a hotly contested issue in Hamtramck, Michigan, during the summer of 2008. The article analyzes how faith-based and other kinds of alliance building that took place in the context of these debates impacted processes of boundary formation among Muslim, Christian and secular-humanist groups. In Hamtramck, debate over the Human Rights Ordinance served as a rich and generative nexus point for the proliferation and exchange of ideas about the incorporation of Muslim values and sentiments in the public sphere. A study of these debates offers us a window into understanding the politicization of Islam as a minority religion, the symbolic space it occupies, and its engagement with the institutionalization of secularism in the US at the current time. [source]