Chapter 7: Excluding same-sex couples from civil marriage as a contested human rights issue
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Chapter
Published:
16 May 2023
Page Range:
85–96
Collection:
Law 2023
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035306275.00015
Keywords:
Human rights; moral rights; equal protection; right of privacy; legal theory; moral freedom
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In this chapter, I pursue the implications of the morality of human rights for the human rights controversy concerning the same-sex marriage: Does the exclusion of same-sex couples from civil marriage violate either the human right to moral equality or the human right to moral freedom (or both)?

Cover Interrogating the Morality of Human Rights
Interrogating the Morality of Human Rights
Monograph Book
Published:
16 May 2023
Print ISBN:
9781035306268
eISBN:
9781035306275
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035306275
Pages:
172
Collection:
Law 2023
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