Virtually NormalAn unprecedented work from the brilliant young editor of The New Republic--who is celebrated also as an incisive defender of the equality of homosexuals--Virtually Normal is an impassioned, reasoned, subtle, and uncompromising political and moral treatise that will set the terms of the homosexuality debate for the foreseeable future. |
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... question of sexual identity was not a critical factor in their life choices or vocation, or even a factor at all. Perhaps because of a less repressive upbringing or because of some natural ease in the world, they affected a simple ...
... question of sexual identity was not a critical factor in their life choices or vocation, or even a factor at all. Perhaps because of a less repressive upbringing or because of some natural ease in the world, they affected a simple ...
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... question. They represent the most prominent views at war in our society, the four essential choices we are being asked to make. And each of them, I hope to argue, is wrong. The most common view about homosexuality—both now and, to an ...
... question. They represent the most prominent views at war in our society, the four essential choices we are being asked to make. And each of them, I hope to argue, is wrong. The most common view about homosexuality—both now and, to an ...
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... question. Perhaps it's best to begin an answer with the origin of at least part of it, which is the Bible, before going on to deal with its more powerful—and intricate— philosophical argument. Again, the point here is not to enter into ...
... question. Perhaps it's best to begin an answer with the origin of at least part of it, which is the Bible, before going on to deal with its more powerful—and intricate— philosophical argument. Again, the point here is not to enter into ...
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