Category: gay marriage
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Sad Days in California
Everything about the arguments about Prop 8 in front of the California Supreme Court is making me grouchy today. Let me enumerate: It’s a reminder that 52% of voters decided to take away the right to gay marriage, after 5 months of couples getting married and society not collapsing. It seems so freaking obvious that…
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Does the religious right also not get that the Colbert Report is a parody?
Even if you didn’t watch Tuesday’s Daily Show, you probably saw the second half of Jon Stewart’s interview with Mike Huckabee linked on one of the million liberal blogs out there. I was curious as to what the conservative blogs were saying, though. What did they think of Huckabee’s performance? Or about Stewart’s line, “Religion…
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Sometimes, putting family first means putting it off
This article on red state and blue state attitudes towards sex didn’t really tell me anything new. But this jumped out at me: Maybe these choices weren’t originally about values—maybe they were about maximizing education and careers—yet the result is a more stable family system. Not only do couples who marry later stay married longer;…
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Presenting Mr. and Mr. Sulu
Among the many gay couples that can now legally marry in California are George Takei and his long-term partner! Congrats to everyone! I’ve never seen an episode of Star Trek, so my only exposure to Takei has been from one of my favorite Daily Show clips ever: Now I know why he sounds so startled…