Just Married: Same-Sex Couples, Monogamy & the Future of Marriage. By Stephen Macedo . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015. Pp. ix, 300. ISBN: 9780691176338. US$29.95.

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-64
Author(s):  
Sarah Jaramillo
Keyword(s):  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
The Future

Marriage: Obligations, Benefits, and Access

Just Married ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Macedo
Keyword(s):  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
Special Obligations ◽  
The Future ◽  
Opposite Sex ◽  
The Many

This chapter examines the many “legal incidents” of marriage: the specific benefits, responsibilities, obligations, and protections that are associated with marriage by law. While critics focus on the special privileges or benefits that spouses acquire in marriage, those are balanced by special obligations. The chapter suggests that the whole package seems reasonably appropriate for both opposite-sex and same-sex couples. It also considers the ways in which marriage seems to promote the good of spouses, children, and society, along with the class divide that now characterizes marriage and parenting. It argues that this class divide, not same-sex marriage, is the great challenge for the future.

A discussion of Stephen Macedo Just Married: Same-Sex Couples, Monogamy & the Future of Marriage

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 797-798
Author(s):  
Jyl J. Josephson
Keyword(s):  
Legal Theory ◽  
Fourteenth Amendment ◽  
Normative Theory ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
The Road ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
The Future ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The U.S

On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in Obergefell v. Hodges, that the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution forbids legal discrimination against same-sex marriage. The decision sent shock waves throughout the country, with both supporters and opponents regarding it as signal of dramatic shifts in public opinion and a revolutionary development on the road to sex-gender equality. Just two days earlier, on June 24, 2015, Stephen Macedo’s Just Married: Same-Sex Couples, Monogamy, and the Future of Marriage was published. Macedo has always worked at the intersection of legal theory, normative theory, and public policy, and Just Married offers a nuanced liberal democratic defense of marriage equality with striking resonance in light of Obergefell. We have thus invited a range of scholars on LGBT rights, and LGBT politics more generally, to comment on his book.

A Discussion of Stephen Macedo’s Just Married: Same-Sex Couples, Monogamy and the Future of Marriage

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 793-794 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Barclay
Keyword(s):  
Legal Theory ◽  
Fourteenth Amendment ◽  
Normative Theory ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Same Sex Couples ◽  
The Road ◽  
Liberal Democratic ◽  
The Future ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The U.S

On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in Obergefell v. Hodges, that the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution forbids legal discrimination against same-sex marriage. The decision sent shock waves throughout the country, with both supporters and opponents regarding it as signal of dramatic shifts in public opinion and a revolutionary development on the road to sex-gender equality. Just two days earlier, on June 24, 2015, Stephen Macedo’s Just Married: Same-Sex Couples, Monogamy, and the Future of Marriage was published. Macedo has always worked at the intersection of legal theory, normative theory, and public policy, and Just Married offers a nuanced liberal democratic defense of marriage equality with striking resonance in light of Obergefell. We have thus invited a range of scholars on LGBT rights, and LGBT politics more generally, to comment on his book.

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