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Yearly Archives: 2006
Mary Cheney speaks
Mary Cheney, AOL executive, daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney and self-described Bush Republican, who became an unwilling focus of the 2004 presidential campaign and the website “Where’s Mary?” speaks out in USA Today. This fall, Virginians will vote on … Continue reading
Justice for All
A fine editorial from retired Episcopal Bishop John Shelby Spong in Richmond’s Style Weekly. One word about this, where he is speaking of the fallacy that marriage has throughout human history been defined as between “one man and one woman:” … Continue reading
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Tagged Editorials, Faith, Marshall-Newman Amendment, Media, Religious authoritarianism
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Gay-Marriage Proposal
Update: More on the irony of it all from Pam’s House Blend and Ex-Gay Watch. Why the correct answer to the question, “So, are you two planning a trip to Canada?” is always “Nope, we’re holding out for a covenant … Continue reading
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Tagged Editorials, Family values, Marriage, Media
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Which ones are the ‘activist judges,’ again?
Virginia Centrist has a post up about the Ohio court ruling that the Ohio version of the Marshall-Newman amendment prohibits the application of domestic violence law to unmarried people. This immediately elicited comments complaining that this strict constructionist reading of … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, News
Tagged Abuse, Law, Marshall-Newman Amendment
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Abstraction has its limits
This conversation reminds me of a photograph that was published in the Washington Post during the Massachusetts hearings on marriage equality. Demonstrators had gathered outside the courthouse from both sides of the issue, and were energetically engaged in “dialogue.” One … Continue reading
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Tagged Family values, Marriage, Reality-based world, Things that are pathetic
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When did civil liberties become a partisan issue?
The Arlington County Democratic Committee has overwhelmingly passed a resolution condemning the anti-gay, anti-single people Marshall-Newman amendment, stating in no uncertain terms that this despicable assault on our community belongs in the garbage. Now we have, in the New York … Continue reading
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Tagged Federal Marriage Amendment, GOP
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You just can’t make this stuff up.
Today, a coalition from what can only be called the wacky wing of the anti-gay industry announced a new plan to have “concerned citizens” perform “audits” of our schools for signs of cooperation with our secret agenda (which I confess … Continue reading →