Copyright (c) 2008 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/william_turner Recent documents in William B Turner en-us Fri, 09 May 2008 02:45:32 PDT 3600 http://works.bepress.com/william_turner/10 http://works.bepress.com/william_turner/10 Wed, 07 May 2008 14:37:34 PDT This article explores efforts by conservative activists to use preposterous legal arguments as the basis for their on-going efforts to attack the legal rights of lesbians and gay men. Individually, these cases are easy to overlook, partly because most of them are state cases. Also, one does not usually think of the legal issues involved -- standing, intervention, full faith and credit -- as civil rights issues. This article draws attention to these cases in order to illuminate the similarities among them in terms of conservative attacks on lesbians and gay men. William B. Turner Civil Rights Constitutional Law Jurisprudence Sexuality and the Law http://works.bepress.com/william_turner/9 http://works.bepress.com/william_turner/9 Wed, 07 May 2008 14:20:05 PDT This article explores why all legislative classifications on the basis of sexual orientation deserve close judicial scrutiny as invidious. Although we typically think of political powerlessness as the logical claim to make in seeking protection from the judiciary under the equal protection clause, this article explains why the active political participation of lesbians and gay men justifies judicial scrutiny of sexual orientation classifications. Full political participation is one of the Republic's highest goals, and lesbians and gay men demonstrate their capacity for full citizenship with their robust, effective political participation. William B. Turner Civil Rights Constitutional Law Sexuality and the Law