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The United States has intermittently experienced left- and
right-wing populist movements that challenge established forms of
corrupt political authority and promise to return America to the
ideals of its founders and people. For those who might have hoped
that the new century would bring an end to ideology or even to
familiar ideological conflicts of the Left and the Right, the Tea
Party movement and other forms of right-wing populism, in the U.S.
and abroad, offer little hope of such a resolution. Most eruptions
of populist anger are directed against elites and elite values;
however, the most recent manifestations of populism are also
characterized by the omnipresence of corporate media and the
important role that popular media personalities play in actively
promoting right-wing populism. Together, these insightful scholarly
articles provide new understandings of contemporary right-wing
populism, including the ways in which the media either have
actively promoted such populism or, more passively, failed to
challenge its ideas and political consequences. This collection
will be useful for students of American politics as well as
students of contemporary right-wing politics. This book was
published as a special issue of New Political Science: A Journal of
Politics and Culture.
Progressive politics has long been in crisis in the United States.
As the radical Left realizes the dire consequences of defining
themselves solely by what they are against, this collection
challenges leading engaged academics and activists to show how
radical politics can lead to a more fruitful democracy. Dealing
with pressing issues of the day such as health care, race,
immigration, religion, foreign policy, unions, feminism,
liberalism, education, and the media, this edited volume looks at
the prospects for a progressive turn in U.S. politics. In doing so,
it hopes to inspire the radical imagination by showing where we can
go from here. As technology continues to enable greater access to
ideas around the world, the power of intellectuals is greater than
ever. And given that the world is full of crushing poverty, sexism,
uneven development, environmental degeneration, religious
fanaticism, racism, and imperialism, the need for intellectuals to
inspire the radical imagination by championing principles of
economic and social justice, democracy, and universality is also
greater than ever. However, political visions are required to guide
that struggle. This is the aim of this book.
Progressive politics has long been in crisis in the United States.
As the radical Left realizes the dire consequences of defining
themselves solely by what they are against, this collection
challenges leading engaged academics and activists to show how
radical politics can lead to a more fruitful democracy. Dealing
with pressing issues of the day such as health care, race,
immigration, religion, foreign policy, unions, feminism,
liberalism, education, and the media, this edited volume looks at
the prospects for a progressive turn in U.S. politics. In doing so,
it hopes to inspire the radical imagination by showing where we can
go from here. As technology continues to enable greater access to
ideas around the world, the power of intellectuals is greater than
ever. And given that the world is full of crushing poverty, sexism,
uneven development, environmental degeneration, religious
fanaticism, racism, and imperialism, the need for intellectuals to
inspire the radical imagination by championing principles of
economic and social justice, democracy, and universality is also
greater than ever. However, political visions are required to guide
that struggle. This is the aim of this book.
The diverse expert contributors to this volume from the fields of
politics and law use moral argumentation with respect to same-sex
marriage, gay rights in general, and California's Prop 8. The
arguments are advanced in terms of the nation's foundational
political and legal principles, extending ethical argumentation to
important contemporary public policy areas such as marriage, the
separation of church and state, and the rearing of children.
Several chapters also contest the perceived if not actual
establishment in the law and public policy of heterosexist and
religious bias that continues to work against full and meaningful
inclusion of sexual minorities. This bias is ironically and
improperly couched in the language of American political and
religious values, and it misunderstands the nation's core
principles, or willfully miscasts them as inapplicable to many
Americans and their families. Nonetheless, this bias is pervasive
in the nation's political discourse, working to deny an important
right and the recognition of equality to many citizens. The main
contribution ofMoral Argument, Religion, and Same-Sex Marriage is
in its direct engagement with the political and legal arguments of
the gay community's critics on their own moral and ethical terms.
Along the way, important concepts in public discourse such as
governmental neutrality, the right to marry, and religious freedom
are presented and cast in the light of liberal-democratic theory."
The diverse expert contributors to this volume from the fields of
politics and law use moral argumentation with respect to same-sex
marriage, gay rights in general, and California's Prop 8. The
arguments are advanced in terms of the nation's foundational
political and legal principles, extending ethical argumentation to
important contemporary public policy areas such as marriage, the
separation of church and state, and the rearing of children.
Several chapters also contest the perceived if not actual
establishment in the law and public policy of heterosexist and
religious bias that continues to work against full and meaningful
inclusion of sexual minorities. This bias is ironically and
improperly couched in the language of American political and
religious values, and it misunderstands the nation's core
principles, or willfully miscasts them as inapplicable to many
Americans and their families. Nonetheless, this bias is pervasive
in the nation's political discourse, working to deny an important
right and the recognition of equality to many citizens. The main
contribution ofMoral Argument, Religion, and Same-Sex Marriage is
in its direct engagement with the political and legal arguments of
the gay community's critics on their own moral and ethical terms.
Along the way, important concepts in public discourse_such as
governmental neutrality, the right to marry, and religious
freedom_are presented and cast in the light of liberal-democratic
theory.
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