Beyond Marriage: Love and the Law
Beccah Golubock Watson : Gay & Lesbian Issues & Activism
Pressure is building to expand the legal definition of family beyond the boundaries of gay or straight marriage.
2005
2004
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Homophobia and Apple Pie
Robert Scheer : Gay & Lesbian Issues & Activism
Bush keeps claiming to represent "normal" Americans at the expense of "the other."
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The Rules of Attraction
Hillary Frey : Feminism & Women
Why Ms. Independent still wants to get hitched.
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Marriage on the Mind
Sharon Lerner : George W. Bush Administration
The Bush Administration's misguided poverty cure.
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Marry, Marry, Quite Contrary
Catharine R. Stimpson : Gay & Lesbian Issues & Activism
To wed is to lose one's precious distance from conformity.
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Wedding Vows
Donna Minkowitz : Gay & Lesbian Issues & Activism
How to have our family and smash it too.
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Onward Christian Soldiers
Esther Kaplan : Gay & Lesbian Issues & Activism
The religious right's sense of siege is fueling a resurgence.
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The Wedding March
Alisa Solomon : Gay & Lesbian Issues & Activism
Gay nuptials combine pomp and protest.
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Sacred Rite or Civil Right?
Rev. Howard Moody : Religion
Gay marriage shows why we need to separate church & state.
2003
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Bush Plays Pope on Gay Marriage
Robert Scheer : Gay & Lesbian Issues & Activism
In America, it is a civil institution, not a religious one.
2002
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The Mullahs of Marriage
Bill Berkowitz : Conservatives & The American Right
Thanks to an effective campaign by right-wing foundations, conservative family politics has gone mainstream.
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