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Entries in same-sex marriage (6)

Friday
May142010

Laura Bush is pro-choice and for same-sex marriage

Which makes her a whole lot more progressive than Dubya.(Video after the jump)

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Friday
May072010

"Whose life is made worse?"

I regard David Weigel as pretty fair-minded, so when he caught some flak for this tweet calling same-sex marriage opponents "bigots", a well-reasoned response was expected. Weigel delivered.

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Monday
Apr192010

One small step in the right direction

It's small comfort, but when it is the comfort of family at the bedside of a patient, it matters.

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Wednesday
Mar172010

Sullivan: "It's about love"

Andrew Sullivan reminds us what marriage is all about; it's not about the rituals, or approval from society, or sex. It is all about the commitment of two adults to love one another. This goes far deeper than love for anything else in my opinion, and love should not require the consent or approval of any religion.

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Thursday
Oct012009

Denying marriage equality is morally reprehensible

That is the only way to describe what happened to Janice Langbehn, Lisa Marie Pond and their family. Denying the family of a homosexual the rights to see him or her for the last time because they are not legally recognised as family is absolutely outrageous. And I defy anyone defending the denial of formal marriage rights to same-sex couples as anything humane or morally justifiable. Read that story, and tell me how treating fellow humans with a different sexual orientation as less human than heterosexuals is in anyway not morally reprehensible, not inhumane, and in any way justifiable.

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Thursday
Aug202009

“This case could involve the rights and happiness and equal treatment of millions of people.” 

Theodore Olson was talking about the case he filed alongside David Boies, on behalf of two gay couples in California in an attempt to overturn Proposition 8. Olson represented George W. Bush in the Bush v. Gore case in 2000, which put Bush into the White House, while Boies represented Al Gore, which reinforces the (correct, in my opinion) view that same-sex marriage is a nothing less than a civil rights issue.

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