SOURCE: George, Robert P. “‘Shameless Acts’ Revisited: Some Questions for Martha Nussbaum.” Academic Questions 9, no. 1 (winter 1995-96): 24-42.

In the following essay, George puts forth a critique of Nussbaum's expert testimony in a court case, Evans v. Romer, concerning the rights of homosexuals.

Author's Note: This article is dedicated to the late Barry Gross, whose devotion to the ideal of scholarly integrity was exemplary, and who insisted that the matters discussed in this article not be passed over in silence.

In Evans v. Romer, the Colorado Amendment 2 Case,¹ so called, Martha Nussbaum, then University Professor and professor of philosophy, classics, and comparative literature at Brown University,² offered expert testimony in court and by affidavit purporting to show that moral objections to homosexual conduct did not exist, or were, in any event, not significant, in pre-Christian Greek and Roman civilizations or in the major philosophical traditions associated with them...