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Gay Marriage: for Better Or for Worse?:

What We've Learned from the Evidence
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Oxford University Press, Jun 18, 2006 - Law - 336 pages
Opponents of same-sex marriage in the United States often claim that allowing gays and lesbians to marry will lead to the downfall of the institution of marriage and will harm children. Drawing from 16 years of data and experience with same-sex unions in Scandinavia, Gay Marriage: For Better or for Worse? is the first book to present empirical evidence about the results of same-sex marriage (in the form of registered partnerships) from the Nordic countries. Spedale and Eskridge demonstrate that conservative defense-of-marriage arguments that predict negative effects from gay marriage are invalid, and the Scandinavian experience suggests that the institution of marriage may indeed benefit from the enactment of gay marriage. If we look at the proof from abroad, the authors argue, we must conclude that the sanctioning of gay marriage in the United States would neither undermine marriage as an institution, nor harm the wellbeing of our nation's children.
  

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Well Darren is part of my Family. The Spedales would kill Darren for being Gay. They are the Holy order of the Church. And Darren would not go passed his family and not be killed for Breaking Gods Laws. In the Laws of the Bible it tells you its a sin for a man to lay,with another man. Hung By the neck till dead. Or feed him to a shark. Or any beast of the field as its ordered by God. So was Darren born Gay? Or Did he become Gay from attacks from another Gay Man? Id like to know. Name One Creation That God Made that was Gay. Ever see a Gay Snail? A Snail mounts its female from the rear. Go Boy'' Ever seen a Gay Duck? Gay Dog? Gay Fish? Gay Snake? Gay Buzzards? You wont find any. Only with People does God have a Problem. The Snake God said was Cursed beyound all creatures of the Earth.That he would crawl on his belly,and eat the dust of the Ground the rest of his life. But when it comes to God''He doesnt Sin. He finds a female and has baby snakes. Cursed but never sins. What happened to you? Spedales were to lead the way'' not to become cursed. You cant have a Gay Marriage. You cant re-produce offspring with another man. Test Tube Babys'' somthing happened to you at birth. Tampering of Humans done by the American Goverment. Germ warfare ordered, When did you find out that your Gay? Ramona. ramonaspedale@live.com or ramonaspedale@yahoo.com please reply back. 

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Contents

Toward a Brave New World
3
1 The Evolving SameSex Marriage Debate in the United States
11
2 The SameSex Marriage Debate in Scandinavia and the Rest of Europe
43
Sixteen Years of Scandinavian Partnerships and the Changing Conception of Family
91
Lessons from Scandinavia
131
5 Modern Scandinavian Families and the DefenseofMarriage Argument
169
Scandinavian Lessons for the American Marriage Debate
203
I Now Pronounce You An Emerging Menu of Relationship Options
251
Appendices
259
Notes
281
Index
333
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About the author (2006)


Darren R. Spedale is a corporate attorney at White & Case, LLP in New York City. He spent two years on a Fulbright Fellowship in Denmark researching Scandinavian same-sex partnerships. He received his J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from Stanford University, and continues his work on same-sex marriage through his pro bono activities.

William N. Eskridge, Jr. is the John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence at the Yale Law School. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including Dynamic Statutory Interpretation and Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet. He is currently writing a book on the rise and decline of sodomy law in America.

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