Fundamentalism in American Religion and Law: Obama's Challenge to Patriarchy's Threat to Democracy
Homosexual marriage and unfettered access to abortion (including partial-birth abortion) are aspects of a fundamental constitutionally guaranteed “right to intimate life,” claims David A. J. Richards. If they are part of such a basic constitutional right, why have they not been acknowledged? Why do...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2011
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2011, Volume: 53, Issue: 1, Pages: 137-139 |
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| Summary: | Homosexual marriage and unfettered access to abortion (including partial-birth abortion) are aspects of a fundamental constitutionally guaranteed “right to intimate life,” claims David A. J. Richards. If they are part of such a basic constitutional right, why have they not been acknowledged? Why do advocates of an “originalist” approach to constitutional exegesis so vehemently oppose them?, The answer, claims Richards, is the continuing hold of “patriarchy” that is the supposed heritage of both judicial originalists and politically active religious “fundamentalists” (which, for Richards, encompasses Roman Catholics, evangelical Protestants, and Mormons). |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csr017 |