One of the many books that line the discreetly built-in bookshelves throughout the apartment is John Boswell’s Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality, which Wolfson read in college and credits with changing his life. “It was this groundbreaking book that traced the first 3,000 years of western civilisation from biblical times to the Renaissance. Boswell showed homosexuality had not always been scorned. It showed me that if it had once been different, it could be different again.”
沃夫森的整套房子都精心打造了嵌入式书架,上面摆满了书,其中之一就是约翰?博斯韦尔的《基督教、社会宽容与同性恋》(John Boswell’s Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality),沃夫森上大学时就拜读过它,认为是它改变了自己的人生。“正是这本划时代的巨著,追溯了西方文明从圣经(远古)时代到文艺复兴时代最初3000年的历史。博斯韦尔在书中阐述了同性恋并非一直不受社会待见。该书表明:只要史上有过一次不同,就能有第二次。”
Wolfson has the kind of profound optimism that can make seismic change possible. When he argued the Hawaii case, public support for gay marriage in the US was at 27 per cent. Nearly two decades later it stands at 63 per cent, apparently riding a wave of inevitability that once seemed impossible.
沃夫森具有能使金石为开的乐观豁达。他为夏威夷Baehr v Miike一案辩护时,美国民众对同性恋的支持率只有27%;近二十年后,民众支持率高达63%,曾经天方夜谭的事,如今俨然已成不可逆转之势。
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