Reflections on Nomos: Paideic Communities and Same Sex Weddings
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2022
Publication Information
37 Touro Law Review 2253 (2022)
Abstract
Robert Cover’s Nomos and Narrative is an instructive tale for the constitutional battle over whether religious wedding vendors must be required to serve same-sex couples. He helps us see how contending communities’ deep narratives of martyrdom and obedience to the values of their paideic communities can be silenced by the imperial community’s insistence on choosing one community’s story over another community’s in adjudication. The wedding vendor cases call for an alternative to jurispathic violence, for a constitutionally redemptive response that prizes a nomos of inclusion and respect for difference.
Repository Citation
Failinger, Marie, "Reflections on Nomos: Paideic Communities and Same Sex Weddings" (2022). Faculty Scholarship. 526.
https://open.mitchellhamline.edu/facsch/526