Citations:straight marriage

English citations of straight marriage

• 1999, The Columbia reader on lesbians and gay men in media, society, and politics, page 633:

  The argument that gay marriage would subtly undermine the unique legitimacy of straight marriage is based upon a fallacy. For heterosexuals, straight marriage would remain the most significant—and only legal—social bond.

• 2005, Jonathan Rauch, Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America, page 152:

  You can assume that 5 percent of the population is gay, that gay-marriage rates would equal straight-marriage rates (implying not quite 3 million same-sex married couples), […]

• 2018, Joe Rollins, Legally Straight: Sexuality, Childhood, and the Cultural Value of Marriage, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 45:

  Here, the court reiterated the importance of straight marriage and announced, erroneously, that the state's interest in marriage is limited to those relationships capable of producing children: straight couples may marry regardless of their intention or ability to reproduce […]

• 2020 April 7, Andrew J. Bacevich, American Conservatism: Reclaiming an Intellectual Tradition, Library of America, →ISBN:

  The argument that gay marriage would sutbly undermine the unique legitimacy of straight marriage is based upon a fallacy. For heterosexuals, straight marriage would remain the most significant—and only legal—social bond. Gay marriage could only delegitimize straight marriage if it were a real alternative to it […]