Law, Religion and Homosexuality

Paul Johnson, Robert Vanderbeck

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9780415832687
• eBook ISBN:
  9781135055172
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Law Theory & Practice
• Index: Law

Law, Religion and Homosexuality is the first book-length study of how religion has shaped, and continues to shape, legislation that regulates the lives of gay men and lesbians . Through a systematic examination of how religious discourse influences the making of law – in the form of official interventions made by faith communities and organizations, as well as by expressions of faith by individual legislators – the authors argue that religion continues to be central to both enabling and restricting the development of sexual orientation equality. Whilst some claim that faith has been marginalized in the legislative processes of contemporary western societies, Johnson and Vanderbeck show the significant impact of religion in a number of substantive legal areas relating to sexual orientation including: same-sex sexual relations, family life, civil partnership and same-sex marriage, equality in employment and the provision of goods and services, hate speech regulation, and education. Law, Religion and Homosexuality demonstrates the dynamic interplay between law and religion in respect of homosexuality and will be of considerable interest to a wide audience of academics, policy makers and stakeholders.

Index

• Abbott, D. 123
• Adebowale, Lord 83–4
• Adoption and Children Act (ACA) 2002 59, 69–70, 92, 97–8
  • contested moralities 72–88
  • religion and child welfare 76–80
  • religion and ‘evidence’ of homosexual parenting 80–4
  • religion and symbolic politics of marriage 84–7
• ‘age of consent’ debates 5–6, 20–1, 52–64, 87
  • assertion of Christian morality: Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill 1977 52–4
  • Christian rejection of legal equality 57–9
  • ‘homophobia’ and ‘equality’: Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 54–60
  • triumph of equality over religion? Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 2000 60–4
• age discrimination 101
• AIDS/HIV 58, 177, 191, 205
• Alison, Michael 56
• Allen, G. 179, 181
• Alli, Lord 80, 86–7, 106–7132, 133, 163, 200
• Anderson of Swansea, Lord 168
• Andersson, J. 9, 14
• Andrews, Baroness 202
• Aquinas, Thomas 15
• armed forces 11, 60
• Armstrong of Ilminster, Lord 143, 168
• Arran, Lord 52, 100
• Ash, F. 153
• Ashbourne, Lord 71–2
• Astor of Hever, Lord 82
• Atkin, Lord 42

• Bach, Lord 172
• Bailey, D.S. 30–1, 42, 44
• Baird, V. 121
• Baldry, T. 24
• Ball, C. 75, 76
• Barber, Brendan 204
• Barber, M. 45
• Barendt, E. 160
• Barker, Baroness 70
• Barry, Russell (Bishop of Southwel...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• I Religion and the legal regulation of homosexual sex
• 2 The boundaries of the family: religion and same-sex parenting
• Religious exceptions from sexual orientation equality
• The secular and the sacred: civil partnership and same-sex marriage
• Homophobic hate speech and freedom of religious expression
• Religion, homosexuality and state education
• Conclusion
• Index