Gay & Lesbian Rights A Question: Sexual

'This book is unique in setting the question of homosexuality in its historical, legal, political, and religious contexts in North America. It is no longer possible in Catholic ethics to address sexual morality with a model of absolute moral norms, immune from the ambiguities and complexities social justice issues introduce. Peddicord looks at the personal and social sides of homosexuality, and fairly examines all sides of the Roman Catholic response.' --Lisa Sowle Cahill, Boston College

Introduction

vii

Part I The Gay and Lesbian Movement in the United States

A History of the Gay Liberation Movement in the United States

3

(24)

Introduction

3

(4)

The Stonewall Rebellion

7

(2)

The Mattachine Society

9

(5)

The Daughters of Bilitis

14

(2)

Early Successes on the Legal Front

16

(2)

Confrontation with the Medical Establishment

18

(1)

Courting the Christian Churches

19

(5)

Conclusion: What Do Gays and Lesbians Want?

24

(3)

The Secular Debate on Gay and Lesbian Rights

27

(36)

Contemporary U.S. Attitudes on Gay Liberation

28

(6)

Michael Novak: ``Homosexuality is Harmful to Society''

34

(3)

Roger Magnuson: ``Are Gay Rights Right?''

37

(8)

Milton Gonslaves: ``Right and Reason''

45

(6)

Richard Mohr: ``Gays/Justice''

51

(7)

Conclusion

58

(5)

Part II Catholic Teaching on Gay and Lesbian Rights

Responses to the Gay Liberation Movement by the American Catholic Hierarchy

63

(33)

John Cardinal O'Connor

64

(5)

Joseph Cardinal Bernardin

69

(7)

Archbishop John R. Quinn

76

(16)

``A Pastoral Letter on Homosexuality''

79

(9)

Archbishop Quinn on Violence Against Homosexuals

88

(3)

A New Problematic: Gay and Lesbian Partnership Laws

91

(1)

Conclusion

92

(4)

Catholic Sexual Ethics and Homosexuality

96

(23)

The Traditional Case Against Homosexuality

97

(15)

The Bible and Homosexuality

105

(4)

Two Competing World Views

109

(3)

Soteriological Implications: The Damnation Factor

112

(4)

PCHP, the Revisionists, and Gay Rights

116

(2)

Conclusion

118

(1)

Catholic Social Teaching and Homosexuality

119

(28)

Catholicism and Human Rights

120

(3)

The C.D.F.'s 1992 Intervention on Gay Rights

123

(7)

Critiques of SCC

130

(10)

Conclusion

140

(7)

Coda: Catholic Sexual Ethics v. Catholic Social Teaching

141

(6)

Part III Catholic Support for Gay and Lesbian Rights

John Courtney Murray on the Church-State Relationship

147

(17)

Murray on Religion and Society; Church and State

147

(5)

Indebtedness to Thomistic Political Theory

152

(11)

A Necessary Dualism

153

(3)

Art v. Deductive Reasoning: Murray on Contraception

156

(7)

Conclusion

163

(1)

John Courtney Murray on Religious Freedom

164

(14)

Tolerance Revisited

164

(6)

The Rights of Conscience

170

(1)

Dignitatis humanae

171

(4)

Conclusion

175

(3)

A Catholic Case for Supporting Gay and Lesbian Rights Ordinances

178

(9)

Introduction: On Extending the Modus Vivendi

178

(1)

Indebtedness to JCM's Work on Church-State Relations

179

(1)

Justice as a Univocal Term

180

(4)

Indebtedness to JCM's Work on Religious Liberty

184

(1)

Conclusion

185

(2)

Abbreviations

187

(1)

Bibliography

188

(18)

Index

206

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Gay & Lesbian Rights A Question: Sexual Ethics or Social Justice?

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