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On Democracy and Gay Marriages

June 18, 2008

Despite the very real fact that the threat of democracy hangs overhead, like the Sword of Damocles, many gay couples in California have embraced the opportunity to marry—even if it may be rendered symbolic in November. (permalinked PDF)
Although some couples said they preferred to wait until after the election because they feared their […]

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There is No Such Thing as a Religious “Right”

November 8, 2007

In a related follow-up to the piece I wrote earlier in the week about Michigan’s same-sex benefits debate, Congress has now approved a measure which would ban discrimination based on sexual orientation. Note the nonsensical distinction, that it would now be verboten to fire someone for being gay, yet it would not be required […]

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States’ Rights - Denial of Same-Sex Benefits

November 6, 2007

For governments which are ostensibly there to safeguard our rights, our lives, and our property, they sure make quite the habit out of telling us what we explicitly cannot do with same. In Michigan, the debate is over same-sex benefits for public employees — which would include school teachers, university professors, police officers, firemen, […]

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Another Chink in the Armor

August 30, 2007

“I started to cry because we so badly want to be able to be protected if something happens to one of us,” Rethmeier said.
And that’s precisely what “separate but equal” clauses can’t guarantee. Which is precisely why they’re unconscionable. Which is why a district court judge in Iowa ruled the State’s ban […]

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