Tag: Same-sex marriage
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I don’t hate Prince, just his views
Sometime in the late to mid 1970s, Prince announced himself not only as a musical genius, but as a social revolutionary. By highlighting different lifestyles and playing with (in his music as wells as personal style) sexuality and androgyny, for instance, Prince opened all of our eyes to the way people live. That earlier Prince…
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The Civil-Rights Issue of Our Time
While much of the country is rightly focused on the presidential election, there’s no contest more important to me this year than an initiative on the ballot in California. If it passes with a simple majority, Proposition 8 will take away the fundamental right to marry for same-sex couples in that state. The measure has…
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California Ruling Reignites Same-Sex Marriage Debate
By NATHAN KOPPEL and T.W. FARNAM , May 16, 2008; Page A1 The California Supreme Court opened the door to same-sex marriages in the nation’s largest state, reigniting a hot-button social issue amid a presidential election campaign so far dominated by economic issues and the war in Iraq. The ruling makes California the second state,…
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Barr on gay marriage: California decision is how it’s supposed to work
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Friday, May 16, 2008 Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr says that when it comes to gay marriage, what happens in California is California’s own business. He’s a states’ rights man. Here’s the statement Barr’s issued, which — one week before the Libertarian national convention in Denver — is likely to generate some…