Homosexuality and American Public Life

by Wolfe, Christopher; Kristol, William

• ISBN13: 9781890626112
• ISBN10: 1890626112
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Spence Pub

Summary

This book delivers the most impressive and comprehensive response to the homosexual movement ever assembled. An imposing array of scientists, psychologists, philosophers, and lawyers make the definitive case that homosexuality is both a moral and psychological disorder and a matted for compassionate but urgent public concern. Not content merely to restate the traditional moral position, the contributors address the homosexual movement's most compelling arguments with both sympathy and a relentless commitment to the truth. These essays originated at a 1997 conference of the American Public Philosophy Institute. Experts of unsurpassed prestige probe the common assertions that homosexuality is genetically or biologically determined and that citizens' homosexual behavior should be exempt from social or legal censure.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Christopher Wolfe
Introduction	xv
William Kristol
PART I Science
The Biology of Homosexuality: Science or Politics?	3	(59)
Jeffrey Satinover
The Development of a Homosexual Orientation	62	(23)
George Rekers
The Origins and Therapy of Same-Sex Attraction Disorder	85	(13)
Richard Fitzgibbons
The Gay Deception	98	(8)
Joseph Nicolosi
The AIDS Pandemic	106	(23)
Patrick Derr
PART II Moral Norms
Thomas Aquinas on Homosexuality	129	(12)
Janet E. Smith
``Same-Sex Marriage'' and ``Moral Neutrality''	141	(16)
Robert P. George
PART III Law
Homosexuality and The Law	157	(22)
Hadley Arkes
Homosexuality and The Common Good	179	(13)
Michael Pakaluk
``Marriage'' Hawaiian Style?	192	(8)
Gerard Bradley
The Question of Marriage	200	(49)
David Orgon Coolidge
Conclusion: Love, No Matter What	239	(10)
Richard John Neuhaus
Notes	249	(32)
Contributors	281	(2)
Appendix: Annotated Bibliographic Note On The AIDS Pandemic	283	(3)
Index	286