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The Engagement America's Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage

Sasha Issenberg

A On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state bans on gay marriage were unconstitutional, making same-sex unions legal across the United States. But the road to that momentous decision was much longer than many know. In this definitive account, Sasha Issenberg vividly guides us throug...

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The book was described as a meticulously researched account of the movement for and against marriage equality in the United States, covering the arc of this political and legal conflict from the 1990s onward. The author started writing it in 2011, sensing a shift in momentum towards marriage equality, and noted that opponents in the religious right quickly mobilized against the Hawaii Supreme Court's 1993 ruling.

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Sasha is the author of the book The Engagement, America's Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage. It is a meticulously researched account of the movement for and against marriage equality in...

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The book was described as a meticulously researched account of the movement for and against marriage equality in the United States, covering the arc of this political and legal conflict from the 1990s onward. The author started writing it in 2011, sensing a shift in momentum towards marriage equality, and noted that opponents in the religious right quickly mobilized against the Hawaii Supreme Court's 1993 ruling.

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Sasha is the author of the book The Engagement, America's Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage. It is a meticulously researched account of the movement for and against marriage equality in the United States.

He is the author of three previous books on topics ranging from the global sushi business to medical tourism and the science of political campaigns.

I started writing this in 2011. I had the idea for this. And at that point, it was the first moment that I as a political reporter who had never really written about same-sex marriage, started to think that the momentum had turned in one direction.

The LDS church becomes the first institution of any significance on the mainland to properly appreciate the significance of what the court in Hawaii does in May of 1993 it that this is one of things that is I really think just totally a function of distance that that was a monumental landmark opinion by by state supreme court.

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