Civil Wars (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: David Moats
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Current affairs and law
- Time of Work: Principally 1997-2000
- Setting: Vermont
- Principal Characters: Beth Robinson, Stan Baker, Nina Beck, Lois Farnham, Bill Lippert, Howard Dean, Randall Terry, Nancy Sheltra
- Genres: Nonfiction, Politics, Current affairs, History, Law and jurisprudence
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Politics, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Marriage, Twenty-first century, Politicians, Fascism, Fanaticism, Legislative bodies, Fundamentalism, 2000’s, Vermont
- Locales: Vermont
It is not often that one can point to a specific date when a great cultural shift occurs and society begins to question a longstanding social institution. The year 2004 will go down in history as the year when, in North America, the very definition of the word “marriage”—a key term and a fundamental organizational principle in American society—was called into question for the first time in centuries.
That year, in states and municipalities across the United States, same-sex couples began to be granted marriage licenses, sometimes in direct opposition to the laws of the...
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