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From Tolerance to Equality

How Elites Brought America to Same-Sex Marriage

By (author) Darel E. Paul
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Baylor University Press, Waco, United States
Published: 1st Mar 2018
Dimensions: w 152mm h 228mm d 19mm
Weight: 534g
ISBN-10: 1481306944
ISBN-13: 9781481306942
Barcode No: 9781481306942
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Over the last twenty-five years, a dramatic transformation in the American public's view of homosexuality has occurred, symbolized best by the movement of same-sex marriage from the position of a fringe few to the pinnacle of morality and a cornerstone of establishment thought. From Tolerance to Equality explores how this seismic shift of social perspective occurred and why it was led by the country's educational and business elite. Rejecting claims of a commitment to toleration or a heightened capacity for moral sympathy, author Darel E. Paul argues that American elites use opinion on homosexuality as a mark of social distinction and thus as a tool for accumulating cultural authority and political power. Paul traces this process through its cultural pathways as first professionals and, later, corporate managers took up the cause. He marshals original data analysis and chapters on social class and the family, the ideology of diversity, and the waning status of religious belief and authority to explore the factors behind the cultural changes he charts. Pauldemonstrates the high stakes for same-sex marriage's mostly secular proponents and mostly religious opponentsaand explains how so many came to fight so vigorously on an issue that directly affects so few.In the end, From Tolerance to Equality is far more than an explanation of gay equality and same-sex marriage. It is a road map to the emerging American political and cultural landscape.

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This book will be of significant importance to anyone interested in sexuality, social class, and cultural change. -- Choice A welcome and perceptive challenge to prevailing narratives of same-sex marriage. -- Alastair Roberts -- The Gospel Coalition ...From Tolerance to Equality is a compelling work of social science explaining some of the most important and rapid social changes of the past half-century with great insight, and scholarly integrity. -- Robert Maranto -- Academic Questions