Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the U. S. should debate same-sex marriage “with respect for every human being,” but declined to give her own views, saying it was not her area of expertise or concentration. Cop-out or good decision not to play politics by stepping into a domestic issue that, well, really isn’t in […]
A new book on same-sex marriage adds compelling evidence to the debate, while also making some controversial recommendations. Gay Marriage: For Better or For Worse? claims to be “the first of its kind to present empirical evidence about same-sex marriage.” The authors, attorneys Darren R. Spedale and William N. Eskridge, Jr., study the example of
This week’s big story was, of course, the defeat of the Federal Marriage Amendment. News didn’t stop happening elsewhere, though: Alabama adopted a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, with over 80% of voters supporting the ban. The state of Missouri dropped its appeal of a decision that a lesbian was wrongly prevented from becoming a
. . . your three-year-old is is doing everything in his considerable power to delay naptime, and you think to yourself, “I have to invoke cloture.”
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruled yesterday that lesbian moms using anonymous donor sperm can both be registered as parents on their child’s birth record, without the non-bio mom needing to adopt. The judge gave the Ontario government 12 months to change the law. This may not be the last word on the matter,
The U. S. Senate voted 49-48 today to kill the Federal Marriage Amendment. Seven Republicans joined 41 Democrats to invoke cloture, a motion (known to fans of The West Wing) to end debate on the proposal and not bring it to a full vote. (Eleven more votes would have been needed to move to a
When my partner and I first met, in Madison, Wisconsin, she drove an elderly Honda Civic sporting a bumper sticker for Russ Feingold’s first U. S. Senate campaign. The sticker covered a rather large rust hole, but I figured she would have used non-partisan duct tape if she didn’t also want to make a political
Many straight allies submitted entries to Blogging for LGBT Families Day, proving once again that LGBT rights is not merely an interest-group issue. (Unless, of course, you count all those in favor of equality an interest group.) Here are some extracts: “I am a heterosexual, ten-years-married mother of two who cannot understand how anyone’s loving,
For me, one of the great pleasures from Blogging for LGBT Families Day has been reading posts that make me think. Matt over at The Q-Triad Blog wrote something that seems particularly appropriate today, as all the major (and many minor) American LGBT Web sites are urging us to contact our senators and stop the
the U. S. Senate debate on the Federal Marriage Amendment today, here are some selections from Blogging for LGBT Families Day, on the topic of what makes a family. “What children really need is love. The source of that love does not matter. It can be the stereotypical nuclear family or it can be a
