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How Low Can We Go?

July 8, 2011 – 11:00 am

In Great Britain, a fertility “charity” launches a government-approved “Win a Baby” lottery for infertility services: A controversial IVF lottery will launch in Britain this month giving prospective parents the chance to win thousands of pounds toward expensive fertility treatments in top clinics. The scheme, which the media have dubbed “win a baby,” has already […]

Posted in Children, Culture, Parenting, Science, United Kingdom | Comments (1)

Dan Savage V. Monogamy

July 8, 2011 – 10:30 am

Ross Douthat on his New York Times blog highlights Eve Tushnet’s response: I thought these points from Eve Tushnet were worth highlighting: 1) … I was struck by the conflation of forgiving adultery and understanding nonmonogamy such that there is nothing to forgive in the first place. These actually seem to me like opposite moral positions, […]

Posted in Same Sex Marriage | Comments (5)

The Advocate: The Right Wingers Might Be Right About How SSM Will Change Marriage

July 8, 2011 – 10:00 am

The Dan Savage meme continues (note — The Advocate is a gay magazine and some language used in the article may be offensive to our readers): By designing a relationship that doesn’t fit a typical married couple, Megan and Colin have joined a small but growing number of straight couples who are looking to gay […]

Posted in Culture, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (4)

Hate Rhetoric?

July 8, 2011 – 9:45 am

Some creative minds came up with a poster comparing NOM to the KKK. It’s outrageous of course. We wouldn’t normally bother to notice such stuff, which is par for the course, but even on the gay blogs circulating it a lot of fair minded people are questioning that kind of over the top rhetoric. So […]

Posted in Civility, Culture | Comments (78)

NOM-RI Will Push Legislature to Define Marriage Next Year

July 8, 2011 – 9:30 am

In the Associated Press: The National Organization for Marriage-Rhode Island will urge lawmakers next year to specifically outlaw gay marriage by defining it legally as being between a man and a woman, according to executive director Chris Plante. “Then we look at 2012,’’ Plante said. “Marriage Equality Rhode Island will make this an election issue, and […]

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Tom Messner on Religious Freedom as a Bargaining Chip in NY

July 8, 2011 – 9:00 am

Kathryn Lopez interviews Tom Messner, a lawyer and visiting fellow at the DeVos Center for Religion and Civil Society, on what role did religious freedom play in the negotiations over same-sex marriage in New York. Here’s a sample: KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ: It’s been said that protections for religious freedom were the key to winning the swing […]

Posted in New York, Religious Liberty, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (7)

Why Doesn't Obama Come Out? New Polling in Key Battleground States Holds the Answer

July 8, 2011 – 8:00 am

Public Policy Polling — a Democrat polling firm that we’ve talked about before — is asking questions in key states for the 2012 election, including what their voters thing about marriage. FLORIDA “Do you think same-sex marriage should be legal or illegal?” (July 6th) Illegal: 53% Legal: 37% Unsure: 10% NEW MEXICO “Do you think […]

Posted in Florida, New Mexico, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (11)

Sen. Rev. Diaz: "Unashamed to Be a Christian"

July 7, 2011 – 11:35 am

A statement from NY State Senator Rev. Ruben Diaz, the lone Democrat Senator to vote against the same-sex marriage bill: On June 24th I voted my conscience and opposed Governor Andrew Cuomo’s key piece of social legislation in the New York State Senate that redefines our marriage laws away from the traditional definition of one […]

Posted in New York, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (22)

MIT Student Op-Ed: Gay Marriage Should Not Be Made Legal

July 6, 2011 – 11:49 pm

Political Science major Ryan Normandin at M.I.T. writes in their student newspaper The Tech: It is unfortunate that there is such a growing stigma attached to arguing against gay marriage — at least here in the liberal bastion that is Massachusetts. If one is opposed to legalizing gay marriage, it is automatically assumed that the […]

Posted in Culture, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (81)

NC Speaker Expects Marriage to Be On the Ballot in 2012

July 6, 2011 – 4:18 pm

North Carolina State House Speaker Thom Tillis in an interview with local press: “The defense of marriage is one that a number of folks in our base feel very strongly about,” Tillis said, noting the issue would definitely be brought up in a special fall session. “Generally speaking, it polls fairly high across the voter […]

Posted in Marriage, North Carolina, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (1)

Minnesotans Have Approved 9 out of 10 Past Ballot Amendments

July 6, 2011 – 4:08 pm

Andy Birkey of the Minnesota Independent: Minnesota’s ballot initiative law says that if a voter casts a ballot but does not vote for the specific ballot question, it counts as a “no” vote. The amendment must receive a majority of all votes cast in order for it to pass. In other words, even if the […]

Posted in Marriage, Minnesota, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (6)

The Economist Takes On The Expanding Marriage Gap

July 6, 2011 – 11:54 am

The Economist reports that “Traditional marriage has evolved from a near-universal rite to a luxury for the educated and affluent.” Americans with a high-school degree or less (who account for 58% of the population) tell researchers they would like to marry, but do not believe they can afford it. Instead, they raise children out of […]

Posted in Culture, Marriage | Comments (12)

Mass. Priest Father Roger Landry Calls for Courage from Priests

July 6, 2011 – 11:52 am

From a Catholic Culture summary: In a powerful editorial for The Anchor, the official newspaper for the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, Father Roger Landry calls attention to the pastoral damage done by priests who refuse to convey the Church’s teaching on human sexuality, fearful of opposition from gay-rights activists. A sample: If doctors and nurses at […]

Posted in Catholic Church, Massachusetts, Religious Liberty, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (25)

NYTimes Columnist On How Abandoning Monogamy in the 70's Harmed Marriage

July 6, 2011 – 11:45 am

Ross Douthat in the New York Times on Dan Savage’s effort to separate monogamy from marriage: Savage is strongly pro-marriage, but he thinks the institution is weighed down by unrealistic cultural expectations about monogamy. … Forty years ago, Savage’s perspective temporarily took upper-middle-class America by storm. In the mid-1970s, only 51 percent of well-educated Americans […]

Posted in Culture, Divorce, New York, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (4)

Gay Marriage Across the Land? Chicago Writer Says Not So Fast

July 6, 2011 – 10:00 am

Dennis Byrne writes an op-ed in the Chicago Tribune: The recent legalization of same-sex marriage in New York proves that it’s no longer an issue in the United States, right? Gay marriage will eventually, but certainly, become widely accepted everywhere, right? Not if the American people have anything to say about it. … Whatever the […]

Posted in Illinois, Minnesota, New York, Same Sex Marriage | Comments (1)
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