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Book From the Closet to the Altar

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Klarman
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 0199922101
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book From the Closet to the Altar written by Michael Klarman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bancroft Prize-winning historian and legal expert Michael Klarman here offers an illuminating and engaging account of modern litigation over same-sex marriage. After looking at the treatment of gays in the decades after World War II and the birth of themodern gay rights movement with the Stonewall Rebellion in 1969, Klarman describes the key legal cases involving gay marriage and the dramatic political backlashes they ignited. He examines the Hawaii Supreme Court's ruling in 1993, which sparked a vast political backlash--with more than 35 states and Congress enacting defense-of-marriage acts--and the Massachusetts decision in Goodridge in 2003, which inspired more than 25 states to adopt constitutional bans on same-sex marriage. Klarman traces this same pattern--court victory followed by dramatic backlash--through cases in Vermont, California, and Iowa, taking the story right up to the present. He also describes some of the collateral political damage caused by court decisions in favor of gay marriage--Iowa judges losing their jobs, Senator Majority Leader Tom Daschle losing his seat, and the possibly dispositive impact of gay marriage on the 2004 presidential election. But Klarman also notes several ways in which litigation has accelerated the coming of same-sex marriage: forcing people to discuss the issue, raising the hopes and expectations of gay activists, and making other reforms like civil unions seem more moderate by comparison. In the end, Klarman discusses how gay marriage is likely to evolvein the future, predicts how the U.S. Supreme Court might ultimately resolve the issue, and assesses the costs and benefits of activists' pursuing social reforms such as gay marriage through the courts"--

Book The Altar Court

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  • Author : Karl Lehmann
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1964
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book The Altar Court written by Karl Lehmann and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Altar Court

Download or read book The Altar Court written by Karl Lehmann and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dangerous Prayers from the Courts of Heaven that Destroy Evil Altars

Download or read book Dangerous Prayers from the Courts of Heaven that Destroy Evil Altars written by Dr. Francis Myles and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tear down unholy altars and close the enemy’s entryways into your life! Do you feel like invisible barriers are keeping you from the life you want? This may be the result of hidden, evil altars in the spirit-realm. An “altar” is not simply a physical object used for religious or occultic practice; it’s an...

Book The Cross and Its Shadow

Download or read book The Cross and Its Shadow written by Stephen Nelson Haskell and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "THE CROSS AND ITS SHADOW," the type and the antitype are placed side by side, with the hope that the reader may thus become better acquainted with the Saviour. It is not the intention of the author of this work to attack any error that may have been taught in regard to the service of the sanctuary, or to arouse any controversy, but simply to present the truth in its clearness. This is a reprint of an important early Advent book, which explains the sanctuary and its services. - SECTION I. THE SANCTUARY. SECTION II. FURNITURE OF THE SANCTUARY. SECTION III. THE PRIESTHOOD. SECTION IV. SPRINGTIME ANNUAL FEASTS. SECTION V. VARIOUS OFFERINGS. SECTION VI. SERVICES OF THE SANCTUARY. SECTION VII. THE AUTUMNAL ANNUAL FEASTS. SECTION VIII. LEVITICAL LAWS AND CEREMONIES. SECTION IX. THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL

Book Samothrace

    Book Details:
  • Author : Karl Lehmann
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1964
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 263 pages

Download or read book Samothrace written by Karl Lehmann and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book At the Altar of the Appellate Gods

Download or read book At the Altar of the Appellate Gods written by Lisa Sarnoff Gochman and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered what it's like to argue before the Supreme Court of the United States? In this poignant and compelling memoir, Lisa Sarnoff Gochmancaptures the terror, wonder, and joy of preparing for and arguing a landmark criminal case before the nine justices of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC. At the Altar of the Appellate Gods traces the arc of a violent, racially motivated crime by white supremacist Charles C. Apprendi Jr. in rural Vineland, New Jersey, through the New Jersey state court system, and all the way up to the Supreme Court, where Gochman defended the constitutionality of New Jersey's Hate Crime Statute before a very hot bench. Gochman went head-to-head with Justice Antonin Scalia, fielded tough questions from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and strolled down memory lane with Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Told with grace and humor, At the Altar of the Appellate Gods will interest anyone who is curious about the inner workings of our court system and what it is really like to bring a case before the highest court in the country.

Book A Court of Wings and Ruin

Download or read book A Court of Wings and Ruin written by Sarah J. Maas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah J. Maas hit the New York Times SERIES list at #1 with A Court of Wings and Ruin!

Book Black Gods of the Asphalt

Download or read book Black Gods of the Asphalt written by Onaje X. O. Woodbine and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J-Rod moves like a small tank on the court, his face mean, staring down his opponents. "I play just like my father," he says. "Before my father died, he was a problem on the court. I'm a problem." Playing basketball for him fuses past and present, conjuring his father's memory into a force that opponents can feel in each bone-snapping drive to the basket. On the street, every ballplayer has a story. Onaje X. O. Woodbine, a former streetball player who became an all-star Ivy Leaguer, brings the sights and sounds, hopes and dreams of street basketball to life. He shows that big games have a trickster figure and a master of black talk whose commentary interprets the game for audiences. The beats of hip-hop and reggae make up the soundtrack, and the ballplayers are half-men, half-heroes, defying the ghetto's limitations with their flights to the basket. Basketball is popular among young black American men but not because, as many claim, they are "pushed by poverty" or "pulled" by white institutions to play it. Black men choose to participate in basketball because of the transcendent experience of the game. Through interviews with and observations of urban basketball players, Onaje X. O. Woodbine composes a rare portrait of a passionate, committed, and resilient group of athletes who use the court to mine what urban life cannot corrupt. If people turn to religion to reimagine their place in the world, then black streetball players are indeed the hierophants of the asphalt.

Book Leaves from the Tree of Life

Download or read book Leaves from the Tree of Life written by Alexander Maclaren and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transactions

Download or read book Transactions written by University of Glasgow. Oriental Society and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Complete Works

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  • Author : John Bunyan
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1877
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1092 pages

Download or read book The Complete Works written by John Bunyan and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jerusalem

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  • Author : George Adam Smith
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1908
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 696 pages

Download or read book Jerusalem written by George Adam Smith and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Trapped at the Altar

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  • Author : Jane Feather
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2014-07-22
  • ISBN : 1476703760
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book Trapped at the Altar written by Jane Feather and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Jane Feather introduces a sizzling new series that moves from the remote wilds of southwest England to the turbulent royal court, when a lovely young woman is forced into marriage in order to unite two families—and discovers a most unexpected passion. . . Ariadne Carfax has vowed to be with the man she loves, Gabriel Fawcett. There’s just one obstacle. On his deathbed, Ari’s grandfather decrees that she marry her childhood friend Ivor Chalfont, thus forging a powerful alliance between the two warring families. Giving Ari no time to protest, the elders plan her wedding the next day, forcing her to follow through on the nuptials. Though she is fond of Ivor, Ari has no intention of consummating their marriage—until he kindles an intoxicating desire that she can’t ignore. Ivor has loved Ari for years, but he doesn’t want an unwilling wife. He wants Ari to ache with the same irresistible longing he feels. And if that’s the way to woo her into his bed and into their new life, he won’t rest until his new bride surrenders to true love.

Book The Documents of the Hexateuch

Download or read book The Documents of the Hexateuch written by William Edward Addis and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From Eden to the New Jerusalem

Download or read book From Eden to the New Jerusalem written by T. Desmond Alexander and published by Kregel Academic. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Zeus

Download or read book Zeus written by Arthur Bernard Cook and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: