• Golden arches in the Golden State
• A "normal little girl"
• Floating in the deep end
• Birth order
• A grown-up life
• Baby steps
• My brown-eyed girl
• Every time she smiles
• Rearview mirror
• What is normal, anyway?
• A proposal
• Renovations and explanations
• A weekday wedding
• City Hall, boys and all
• Married in every way but one
• The ballot box
• Can you hold?
• The dream team
• Toughening up for trial
• Perry v. Schwarzenegger
• Perry v. Raum
• Baseball analogies
• Full disclosure
• Perry v. Perry
• The witness stand
• Full-court press
• If you're not laughing every day...
• The people's magazine
• Closing arguments
• The ruling
• A win and a loss
• 8
• Waiting for our rights
• A good day for marriage equality
• Two steps forward, one step back?

"Told in their own voice, this is the story of two women who took their struggle for marriage equality all the way to the Supreme Court--and won. Kris Perry and Sandy Stier are the lesbian half of the plaintiff team that sued the state of California to restore marriage equality. By 2008, when Californians voted in Proposition 8, banning same-sex marriage, Kris and Sandy had been a couple raising their four sons for almost a decade. Living in Berkeley, they were a modern family, but without the protections of legal marriage. In alternating voices, [the authors tell] the story of each woman's journey from her 1960s all-American childhood to the US Supreme Court, sharing tales of growing up in rural America, coming out to bewildered parents, falling in love, and finally becoming a family. From wrangling teenagers and careers to hot flashes at the Supreme Court, this book provide an honest, funny look at a family that landed in the middle of one of the most important civil rights battles of our era."-- Back cover.

• Defending the Christian Idea of marriage today: the place of the personal logos / Peter Augustine Lawler
• The household and the city in classical political philosophy and in John Witte, Jr.'s Account of history of the Western jurisprudence / Terence J. Kleven
• The triumph of the right of intimate association / William C. Duncan
• Free and happy bonds : Loving v. Virginia's nineteenth century precedent on marriage and the pursuit of happiness / Adam M. Carrington
• On the marriage of Dred Scott / David Ramsey
• Back to the future : Reynolds revisited and the structure of the American family / Martha Rice Martini
• Sterilization, reproductive rights, and the Ninth Amendment / Lauren K. Hall
• Limited government and the family : rival jurisprudential models / Mark A. Scully
• Liberalism, the family, and the right to privacy : Griswold v. Connecticut and its progeny / Stephen A. Block
• Obergefell v. Hodges and the privacy doctrine : liberty, autonomy, and the family / Patrick N. Cain
• Democracy in Justice Kennedy's America : reading Obergefell with Tocqueville / Susan McWilliams
• Parenthood and procreation /\rScott Yenor
• Does the law and the constitution of the family have to change? / James R. Stoner, Jr.

This volume will be among the first to examine the Supreme Court's rulings in U.S. v. Windsor (2013) and Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) in light of its earlier rulings while also incorporating several prominent accounts of marriage and the family from the history of political philosophy. Leading scholars expound the ways in which the Court's increasing affirmation of same-sex rights are related to its jurisprudence in other areas related to both marriage and the family.
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• Introduction, Patrick N. Cain and David Ramsey Chapter One: Defending the Christian Idea of Marriage Today: The Place of the Personal Logos, Peter Augustine Lawler Chapter Two: The Household and the City in Classical Political Philosophy and in John Witte, Jr.'s Account of History of Western Jurisprudence, Terence J. Kleven Chapter Three: The Triumph of the Right of Intimate Association, William C. Duncan Chapter Four: Free and Happy Bonds: Loving v. Virginia's Nineteenth Century Precedent on Marriage and the Pursuit of Happiness, Adam M. Carrington Chapter Five: On the Marriage of Dred Scott, David Ramsey Chapter Six: Back to the Future: Reynolds Revisited and the Structure of the American Family, Martha Rice Martini Chapter Seven: Sterilization, Reproductive Rights, and the Ninth Amendment, Lauren K. Hall Chapter Eight: Limited Government and the Family: Rival Jurisprudential Models, Mark A. Scully Chapter Nine: Liberalism, the Family, and the Right to Privacy: Griswold v. Connecticut and Its Progeny, Stephen A. Block Chapter Ten: Liberty, Obergefell and the Privacy Doctrine, Patrick N. Cain Chapter Eleven: Democracy in Justice Kennedy's America: Reading Obergefell with Tocqueville, Susan McWilliams Chapter Twelve: Parenthood and Procreation, Scott Yenor Chapter Thirteen: Does the Law and the Constitution of the Family Have to Change?, James R. Stoner, Jr. Appendix: Cited Supreme Court Cases.
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This volume will be among the first to examine the Supreme Court's rulings in U.S. v. Windsor (2013) and Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) in light of its earlier rulings while also incorporating several prominent accounts of marriage and the family from the history of political philosophy. Leading scholars expound the ways in which the Court's increasing affirmation of same-sex rights are related to its jurisprudence in other areas related to both marriage and the family.
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• Introduction: Embraced by law
• The plaintiffs
• The movement lawyers
• The proponents
• Getting to trial
• Curtain up
• The right to marry
• A history of discrimination
• Immutability
• Political powerlessness
• The ideal family
• A threat to marriage
• The bare desire to harm
• The phantom witnesses
• The trial court
• The Court of Appeals
• The Supreme Court
• Civil ceremonies
• Epilogue: Epithalamium
• A reader's guide
• An essay from Kenji Yoshino : the aftermath of Obergefell v. Hodges
• A conversation with Kenji Yoshino.

"A renowned legal scholar tells the definitive story of Hollingsworth v. Perry, the trial that will stand as the most potent argument for marriage equality. In 2008, California voters passed Proposition 8, rescinding the right of same-sex couples to marry in the state. Advocates for marriage equality were outraged. Still, major gay-rights groups opposed a federal challenge to the law, warning that it would be dangerously premature. A loss could set the movement back for decades. A small group of activists, however, refused to wait. They turned to corporate lawyers Ted Olson and David Boies--best known for arguing opposite sides of Bush v. Gore--who filed a groundbreaking federal suit against the law. A distinguished constitutional law scholar, Kenji Yoshino was also a newly married gay man who at first felt ambivalent about the suit. Nonetheless, he recognized that Chief Judge Vaughn Walker's decision to hold a trial in the case was momentous. Boies and Olson rose to the occasion, deftly deploying arguments that LGBT advocates had honed through years of litigation and debate. Reading the 3,000-page transcript, Yoshino discovered a shining civil rights document--the most rigorous and compelling exploration he had seen of the nature of marriage, the political status of gays and lesbians, the ideal circumstances for raising children, and the inability of direct democracy to protect fundamental rights. After that tense twelve-day trial, Walker issued a resounding and historic ruling: California's exclusion of same-sex couples from civil marriage violated the U.S. Constitution. In June 2013, the United States Supreme Court denied the final appeal in Hollingsworth v. Perry, leaving same-sex couples in California free to marry. Drawing on interviews with lawyers and witnesses on both sides of the case, Yoshino takes us deep inside the trial. He brings the legal arguments to life, not only through his account of the case, but also by sharing his own story of finding love, marrying, and having children. Vivid, compassionate, and beautifully written, Speak Now is both a nuanced and authoritative account of a landmark trial, and a testament to how the clash of proofs in our judicial process can force debates to the ultimate level of clarity"-- Provided by publisher.

• Part I. Before
• The plaintiffs
• The movement lawyers
• The proponents
• Getting to trial
• Part II. The trial
• Curtain up
• The right to marry
• A history of discrimination
• Immutability
• Political powerlessness
• The ideal family
• A threat to marriage
• The bare desire to harm
• The phantom witnesses
• Part III. After
• The trial court
• The Court of Appeals
• The Supreme Court
• Civil ceremonies
• Perry trial chronology
• Marriage equality timeline.

"A renowned legal scholar tells the definitive story of Hollingsworth v. Perry, the trial that will stand as the most potent argument for marriage equality. In 2008, California voters passed Proposition 8, rescinding the right of same-sex couples to marry in the state. Advocates for marriage equality were outraged. Still, major gay-rights groups opposed a federal challenge to the law, warning that it would be dangerously premature. A loss could set the movement back for decades. A small group of activists, however, refused to wait. They turned to corporate lawyers Ted Olson and David Boies--best known for arguing opposite sides of Bush v. Gore--who filed a groundbreaking federal suit against the law. A distinguished constitutional law scholar, Kenji Yoshino was also a newly married gay man who at first felt ambivalent about the suit. Nonetheless, he recognized that Chief Judge Vaughn Walker's decision to hold a trial in the case was momentous. Boies and Olson rose to the occasion, deftly deploying arguments that LGBT advocates had honed through years of litigation and debate. Reading the 3,000-page transcript, Yoshino discovered a shining civil rights document--the most rigorous and compelling exploration he had seen of the nature of marriage, the political status of gays and lesbians, the ideal circumstances for raising children, and the inability of direct democracy to protect fundamental rights. After that tense twelve-day trial, Walker issued a resounding and historic ruling: California's exclusion of same-sex couples from civil marriage violated the U.S. Constitution. In June 2013, the United States Supreme Court denied the final appeal in Hollingsworth v. Perry, leaving same-sex couples in California free to marry. Drawing on interviews with lawyers and witnesses on both sides of the case, Yoshino takes us deep inside the trial. He brings the legal arguments to life, not only through his account of the case, but also by sharing his own story of finding love, marrying, and having children. Vivid, compassionate, and beautifully written, Speak Now is both a nuanced and authoritative account of a landmark trial, and a testament to how the clash of proofs in our judicial process can force debates to the ultimate level of clarity"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: The plaintiffs
• The movement lawyers
• The proponents
• Getting to trial
• Curtain up
• The right to marry
• A history of discrimination
• Immutability
• Political powerlessness
• The ideal family
• A threat to marriage
• The bare desire to harm
• The phantom witnesses
• The trial court
• The Court of Appeals
• The Supreme Court
• Civil ceremonies
• Epilogue: Epithalamium
• Perry trial chronology
• Marriage equality timeline.

"A renowned legal scholar tells the definitive story of Hollingsworth v. Perry, the trial that will stand as the most potent argument for marriage equality. In 2008, California voters passed Proposition 8, rescinding the right of same-sex couples to marry in the state. Advocates for marriage equality were outraged. Still, major gay-rights groups opposed a federal challenge to the law, warning that it would be dangerously premature. A loss could set the movement back for decades. A small group of activists, however, refused to wait. They turned to corporate lawyers Ted Olson and David Boies--best known for arguing opposite sides of Bush v. Gore--who filed a groundbreaking federal suit against the law. A distinguished constitutional law scholar, Kenji Yoshino was also a newly married gay man who at first felt ambivalent about the suit. Nonetheless, he recognized that Chief Judge Vaughn Walker's decision to hold a trial in the case was momentous. Boies and Olson rose to the occasion, deftly deploying arguments that LGBT advocates had honed through years of litigation and debate. Reading the 3,000-page transcript, Yoshino discovered a shining civil rights document--the most rigorous and compelling exploration he had seen of the nature of marriage, the political status of gays and lesbians, the ideal circumstances for raising children, and the inability of direct democracy to protect fundamental rights. After that tense twelve-day trial, Walker issued a resounding and historic ruling: California's exclusion of same-sex couples from civil marriage violated the U.S. Constitution. In June 2013, the United States Supreme Court denied the final appeal in Hollingsworth v. Perry, leaving same-sex couples in California free to marry. Drawing on interviews with lawyers and witnesses on both sides of the case, Yoshino takes us deep inside the trial. He brings the legal arguments to life, not only through his account of the case, but also by sharing his own story of finding love, marrying, and having children. Vivid, compassionate, and beautifully written, Speak Now is both a nuanced and authoritative account of a landmark trial, and a testament to how the clash of proofs in our judicial process can force debates to the ultimate level of clarity"-- Provided by publisher.

• Gay pride
• Parents and second parents
• The beginnings of a new perspective
• Be brave, do the right thing
• A very long engagement
• The rest was just dancing
• It's all about Edie, stupid
• Sometimes, prayer works
• Superior dance
• Professor Diamond and Captain Underpants
• Perfectly pleased
• Be our guest
• To de-gay or not to de-gay
• Already married, already gay
• Skim milk
• Equal dignity.

Renowned litigator Roberta Kaplan knew from the beginning that it was the perfect case to bring down the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Edie Windsor and Thea Spyer had been together as a couple, in sickness and in health, for more than forty years-enduring society's homophobia as well as Spyer's near total paralysis from multiple sclerosis. Although the couple was finally able to marry, when Spyer died the federal government refused to recognize their marriage, forcing Windsor to pay a huge estate tax bill. In this gripping, definitive account of one of our nation's most significant civil rights victories, Kaplan describes meeting Windsor and their journey together to defeat DOMA. She shares the behind-the-scenes highs and lows, the excitement and the worries, and provides intriguing insights into her historic argument before the Supreme Court. A critical and previously untold part of the narrative is Kaplan's own personal story, including her struggle for self-acceptance in order to create a loving family of her own. Then Comes Marriage tells this quintessentially American story with honesty, humor, and heart. It is the momentous yet intimate account of a thrilling victory for equality under the law for all Americans, gay or straight.
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• Proposition 8
• Why I took the case : Theodore B. Olson
• Why I took the case : David Boies
• Preparing the challenge
• Preliminary skirmishes
• Assembling the evidence
• The Trial I
• The Trial II
• David's cross-examination : Theodore B. Olson
• Ted's closing : David Boies
• Judge Walker's decision
• The appeal
• The Supreme Court
• Days to go
• March 26, 2013
• Waiting
• Love wins.

" The riveting inside story of the Supreme Court's landmark rulings on The Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8-by the two lawyers who argued the case On June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a pair of landmark decisions, striking down the Defense of Marriage Act and eliminating California's discriminatory Proposition 8, reinstating the freedom to marry for gays and lesbians in California. Redeeming the Dream is the story of how David Boies and Theodore B. Olson-who argued against each other all the way to the Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore-joined forces after that titanic battle to forge the unique legal argument that would carry the day. As allies and not foes, they tell the fascinating story of the five-year struggle to win the right for gays to marry, from Proposition 8's adoption by voters in 2008, to its defeat before the highest court in the land in Hollingsworth v. Perry in 2013. Boies and Olson guide readers through the legal framing of the case, making crystal clear the constitutional principles of due process and equal protection in support of marriage equality while explaining, with intricacy, the basic human truths they set out to prove when the duo put state-sanctioned discrimination on trial. Redeeming the Dream offers readers an authoritative, dramatic, and up-close account of the most important civil rights issue-fought and won-since Brown v. Board of Education and Loving v. Virginia"-- Provided by publisher.

• Proposition 8
• Why I took the case : Theodore B. Olson
• Why I took the case : David Boies
• Preparing the challenge
• Preliminary skirmishes
• Assembling the evidence
• The trial I
• The trial II
• David's cross-examination : Theodore B. Olson
• Ted's closing : David Boies
• Judge Walker's decision
• The appeal
• The Supreme Court
• Days to go
• March 26, 2013
• Waiting
• Love wins.

" The riveting inside story of the Supreme Court's landmark rulings on The Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8-by the two lawyers who argued the case On June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a pair of landmark decisions, striking down the Defense of Marriage Act and eliminating California's discriminatory Proposition 8, reinstating the freedom to marry for gays and lesbians in California. Redeeming the Dream is the story of how David Boies and Theodore B. Olson-who argued against each other all the way to the Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore-joined forces after that titanic battle to forge the unique legal argument that would carry the day. As allies and not foes, they tell the fascinating story of the five-year struggle to win the right for gays to marry, from Proposition 8's adoption by voters in 2008, to its defeat before the highest court in the land in Hollingsworth v. Perry in 2013. Boies and Olson guide readers through the legal framing of the case, making crystal clear the constitutional principles of due process and equal protection in support of marriage equality while explaining, with intricacy, the basic human truths they set out to prove when the duo put state-sanctioned discrimination on trial. Redeeming the Dream offers readers an authoritative, dramatic, and up-close account of the most important civil rights issue-fought and won-since Brown v. Board of Education and Loving v. Virginia"-- Provided by publisher.

The issue presented is whether the United States Supreme Court should grant certiorari to determine governmental authority, under equal protection and with respect to religious liberty, to promulgate laws prohibiting same sex marriage such as DOMA (the Defense of Marriage Act) and California's Proposition 8.