ABOUT VFMAC:
Vermont Freedom to Marry Action Committee, Inc. (VFMAC), formerly the
Vermonters for Civil Unions Legislative Defense Fund, Inc. (VCULDF),
is a 501(c)(4) organization dedicated to full marriage equality for
same sex couples in Vermont.
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Thanks, HRC!
VFMAC was a grateful recipient of a $5,000 Equality
Fund Grant from Human
Rights Campaign in 2001. This grant enabled us to continue
our valuable work in Vermont's Legislature
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a few books which help to illustrate and illuminate why
people want to see marriage legal for all couples. We
are recommending these books because we find them interesting
and useful in our dialogue about the freedom to marry.
Hopefully you will enjoy them too! Let
us know if there are others we should be reading and
recommending. |
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Publisher
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"Same Sex Marriage: Pro and Con"
Andrew Sullivan, Joseph Landau (Editor)
Vintage Books (New York 1997)
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From The Publisher
:From Plato to Pope John Paul II and from William Bennett
to Melissa Etheridge--here is a collection of opinions,
pro and con, on one of the most explosive issues of our
time.Were homosexual unions sanctioned by societies before
our own? What are the bases for the religious proscriptions
against them? Does the Constitution implicitly grant homosexuals
the right to marry? Will same-sex marriages make gays
and lesbians more like straights or somehow undermine
the traditional family? How will they affect our notions
of parenthood? In Same-Sex Marriage: Pro and Con, these
questions are explored by clergy and jurists, historians
and anthropologists, poets, conservative politicians,
queer theorists, and many others. |
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"What is Marriage For; The Strange Social
History Of Our Most Intimate Institution"
E.J. Graff
Beacon Press (Boston 1999)
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"A very,
very, witty informative and most of all, intelligent
book. Read it for a romp through marriage's long history
and a glimpse of its future." Nancy Cott author
of The Bonds of Womanhood |
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The Publisher What Is Marriage For? documents the
many forms marriage has taken - while arguing forcefully
for the legalization of same-sex marriage, and shedding
new light on such ongoing battles as equality between
wives and husbands and the always-contentious definition
of "family." |
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"Daddy's Wedding"
Michael Willhoite
Alyson Publications, Inc. (June 1996)
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"This wonderful
children's picture book describes in simple terms a child's
reaction to his father's wedding to a man. The reaction
of ex-wife, minister and child are all fully accepting
and matter of fact. I have used this book as a children's
story in a church about same gender marriage"
Rev. Brendan Hadash |
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Six years after writing and illustrating Daddy's Roommate,
Michael Willhoite brings another pioneering story. Nick
is like any other 10-year-old boy, but when Daddy and
Daddy's roommate, Frank, decide to get married, Nick gets
to do something extra special: play best man. And while
everybody celebrates the big wedding day, the dog Clancy
is working on a big surprise for all of them! |
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"From Sexual Liberty to Civilized Commitment:
The Case for Same-Sex Marriage"
William N. Eskridge
The Free Press (1996)
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"If all Americans could set
aside their visceral responses to the words 'gay marriage'
and read this book, the issue would be settled. Period."
Bruce Bawer author of Beyond Queer and A Place
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"the issue of same-sex marriage and its future in the
light of legal precedent and recent higher court decisions.
The book is divided into three main sections: the . .
. social and legal history of same-sex marriage, objections
from both gay and straight communities to state recognition
of same-sex marriage, and the constitutional case for
its enactment." Library Journal Index |
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