[From the archives] A Right to Marry?
[From the archives] A Right to Marry?
[From the archives] A Right to Marry?
In celebration of the breaking news, we bring you Martha Nussbaum’s “A Right to Marry?” from the summer 2009 issue of Dissent.
The politics of humanity asks us to stop viewing same-sex marriage as a source of taint or defilement to traditional marriage but, instead, to understand the human purposes of those who seek marriage and the similarity of what they seek to that which straight people seek. When we think this way, the issue ought to look like the miscegenation issue: as an exclusion we can no longer tolerate in a society pursuing equal respect and justice for all.
