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Who's the Bigot? - Learning from Conflicts over Marriage and Civil Rights Law (Hardcover)
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Who's the Bigot? - Learning from Conflicts over Marriage and Civil Rights Law (Hardcover)
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Historically, critics of interracial, interfaith, and most recently
same-sex marriage have invoked conscience and religious liberty to
defend their objections, and often they have been accused of
bigotry. Although denouncing and preventing bigotry is a shared
political value with a long history, people disagree over who is a
bigot and what makes a belief, attitude, or action bigoted. This is
evident from the rejoinder that calling out bigotry is intolerant
political correctness, even bigotry itself. In Who's the Bigot?,
the eminent legal scholar Linda C. McClain traces the rhetoric of
bigotry and conscience across a range of debates relating to
marriage and antidiscrimination law. Is "bigotry" simply the term
society gives to repudiated beliefs that now are beyond the pale?
She argues that the differing views people hold about bigotry
reflect competing understandings of what it means to be "on the
wrong side of history" and the ways present forms of discrimination
resemble or differ from past forms. Furthermore, McClain shows that
bigotry has both a backward- and forward-looking dimension. We not
only learn the meaning of bigotry by looking to the past, but we
also use examples of bigotry, on which there is now consensus, as
the basis for making new judgments about what does or does not
constitute bigotry and coming to new understandings of both
injustice and justice. By examining charges of bigotry and defenses
based on conscience and religious belief in these debates, Who's
the Bigot? makes a novel and timely contribution to our
understanding of the relationship between religious liberty and
discrimination in American life.
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