Gay Marriage | Gay Marriage
Jun.04.2008
I had a long drawn out conversation with a long time friend of mine last night. It was about the results that society has on the average every day Joe. We discussed how deep seeded certain rules society has placed on the average American really affects us in the long run. It's really quite...
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Jun.04.2008
Should either the US government or state government decide who can marry legally period? Currently, in Florida there is a measure that will be on the ballot to ban any marriage that is not between a man and a woman be added to the state constitution.
Personally, I am happily married to the same man...
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May.20.2008
Thank you to all the people---Q and non-Q who sent congratulations in response to the Supreme Court decision that supports equal rights for all of us!!! I don't know what words would ably describe how it feels to have that validation. Then there's the part of me that feels so infuriated that it...
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May.19.2008
"[W]e conclude that, under this state's Constitution, the constitutionally based right to marry properly must be understood to encompass the core set of basic substantive legal rights and attributes traditionally associated with marriage that are so integral to an individual's liberty and...
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May.19.2008
Images can pack a lot of power and meaning.
If a lapel pin smaller than a Larry Ellison hors d'oeuvre can stir people up, how much more so a big, honking photograph covering a newspaper's entire front page.
Last week served up some pretty interesting images. Here are a few:
Gavin Newsom. The...
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May.18.2008
Very funny, but, then again, not so funny. Steve Lopez' article in the L.A. Times today ("Same-sex couples can't do worse at marriage than straight couples," www.latimes.com, May 18) speculates that, if gay couples -- whom the California Supreme Court says can now wed -- divorce at the...
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May.15.2008
One of the better-know soap opera columnists refuses to call herself a fan, and takes issue when others refer to her publicly as a soap fan for fear that her words won’t been taken seriously. Yet her affection for and knowledge of soaps is implicit in every word she writes. So, why not a fan? And...
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May.14.2008
This year many of us mourned the passing of Mildred Loving. Who is she? She was one of the first people I ever wrote about as a young journalist in Boston at WGBH-TV. She was hero and role model and a woman who lived up to her name. She and her spouse sued for the right to marry in their home...
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