Accidental Activists: Mark Phariss, Vic Holmes, and Their Fight for Marriage Equality in Texas - Couverture rigide

Collins, David

 
9781574416923: Accidental Activists: Mark Phariss, Vic Holmes, and Their Fight for Marriage Equality in Texas
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1574416928 ISBN 13 : 9781574416923
Editeur : University of North Texas Press,U.S., 2017

Synopsis

In early 2013 same-sex marriage was legal in only ten states and the District of Columbia. That year the Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Windsor appeared to open the door to marriage equality. In Texas, Mark Phariss and Vic Holmes, together for sixteen years and deeply in love, wondered why no one had stepped across the threshold to challenge their state's 2005 constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage. They agreed to join a lawsuit being put together by Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLD.

Two years later--after tense battles in the Federal District Court for the Western District of Texas and in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, after sitting through oral arguments at the Supreme Court of the United States in Obergefell v. Hodges--they won the right to marry deep in the heart of Texas. But the road they traveled was never easy. Accidental Activists is the deeply moving story of two men who struggled to achieve the dignity of which Justice Anthony Kennedy spoke in a series of Supreme Court decisions that recognized the "personhood," the essential humanity of gays and lesbians.

Author David Collins tells Mark and Vic's story in the context of legal and social history and explains the complex legal issues and developments surrounding same-sex marriage in layman's terms.

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À propos de l?auteur

DAVID COLLINS taught English for forty years at Westminster College in Missouri. He has had unrestricted access to all materials related to the story of Mark Phariss and Vic Holmes, including legal communications and documents, and conducted extensive interviews with Mark and Vic and others involved in the case. He lives in Pineville, North Carolina.

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Éditeur
University of North Texas Press,U.S.
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1574416928
ISBN 13 
9781574416923
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
480
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Personne responsable
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