America's Roman Catholic bishops aren't completely obsessed by abortion and gay marriage. My former colleague Ann Rodgers, one of the best religion reporters around, reports in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that bishops have been battling over whether to approve a retro English translation of the Mass with more traditional (and, [...]
Generally we use the "Matrimonial Madness" category for discussions of same-sex marriage; but not this time. Today, in a bolt from the blue (staters), the Senate Democrats have snuck a ringer into Majority Leader Harry "Pinky" Reid's (D-NV, 70%) version of ObamaCare... they created a new tax with a nasty [...]
....nothing. Oh, and you sick freaks thought thought she was going to air something like this ?
The Miss California USA beauty pageant is anything but dull and this year's gig -- on Sunday --...
Oh, how I miss Molly Ivins.
"This state or a political subdivision of this state may not create or recognize any legal status identical or similar to marriage."
That’s from [...]
The Washington D.C. City Council is poised to slap same-sex marriage (SSM) on the table in our nation's capital, whether the citizens want it or not. And now, to add insult to penury, the District of Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics [sic] has made its own contribution to democracy... [...]
It's a combination of issues so hot, an op-ed about reopening King-Harbor hospital doesn't even make the top three! Leading off is a pair of [...]
Want to repeal California's ban on gay marriage? You now have five chances to get an initiative on the ballot.
Pay attention, 'cause this could get confusing. No less than five initiatives have...
[...] Bruce just forwarded me a message he got from Twitter about gay activists setting up a “Bigot List” of donors to Question 1 in Maine, the successful ballot measure to “veto” a marriage law passed by the Pine Tree State’s elected legislature.
Now, like those who publish this list, I opposed [...]
The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington is, in a sense, having a similar argument thrown in its [...]
It looks like the politically correct brigade is out, and this time their warship has landed at Brookstone, a gift shop at Boston's Logan Airport.
Peter Vadala, a deputy manager at the store, was their latest casualty. The 24 year-old was tending to his duties when in walked a' [...]
Gov. Don Carcieri (R) RI
Whatever your position on same-sex marriage, when one partner dies, the marriage is over and the loving partner of the dear departed should be granted all the [...]
As many of you may know that last Tuesday while voters in Maine rejected gay marriage, voters in Washington State approved domestic partnerships. That “split decision” occasioned my latest column for Pajamas Media. Here’s a taste:
Largely lost amidst the hullabaloo of Republican gubernatorial victories in New Jersey and Virginia and [...]
I’ve made the argument that gay marriage could in fact threaten religious liberties, Maggie Gallagher gives an example of how it could threaten civil liberties:
Case in point: Don Mendell, a school guidance counselor at Nokomis Regional High School in Maine, now faces ethics complaints for his decision to appear in [...]
As I research the idea of male aggression for the chapter in my dissertation on why men need the goddess Athena, I encounter reams of evidence, from the social as well as the natural sciences, which provide substance to my “gut” suspicion of the term, “marriage equality.”
In their 1989 book, [...]
A new LATimes/USC poll was released Friday regarding voter attitudes about Gay Marriage. A year after Proposition 8 removed the rights of same-gender couples [...]
The other night I attended a screening of a friend’s documentary-in-progress following a number of gay couples who, in 2004, went up to San Francisco to get married when Mayor Gavin Newsom allowed his city to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples. A number of things struck me about the [...]
We received the following release from the folks behind the ballot initiative effort to Repeal Prop 8 ballot in 2010:
Million for a Million” will fund signature gathering to put a marriage equality initiative on the California ballot next November
San Francisco, [...]
With the passage of time, some things may change. Political attitudes may evolve and public support may appear on the rise; but in the end most things remain the same.
Today, the election results from Maine’s Question #1 [...]
Supporters of gay marriage lost a crucial vote in Maine Tuesday in an election that had national implications on the trend toward acceptance of same-sex marriage. Maine's voters repealed a state law that would have allowed same-sex couples to wed. But this is what has supporters of gay marriage [...]
Jeff Flint, the Sacramento consultant who is one of the architects of the repeal of Maine's same sex marriage law Wednesday, just told me something very interesting in the wake of his side's...
Given that the elected legislature had passed and the elected Governor had signed the law in Maine recognizing same-sex marriage, I had expected the dynamics of the race to be a little different in the Pine Tree State. But, the result is nearly identical to that in the Golden State [...]
Chances are that Tangipahoa Parish's 8th Ward in Louisiana will get along just fine without the services of Keith Bardwell, a justice of the peace who refused to perform a wedding for an interracial couple. The marriages don't last, Bardwell claimed, and the children are worse off. Bardwell's the one [...]
