Rich Blinne, thoughtful XGW reader and commenter, found this article intriguing like I did: Supporting gays, but not gay marriage For many, equality is one thing, but an institution’s sanctity is quite another. They have accepted the gay man next…
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Gender: Relevant in the Marriage Debate? How?
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Lynn at Noli Irritare Leones offers insightful analysis of the big debate over gender — whether and how it relates to the definition of marriage. Cheers also go to Eve Tushnet for attempting to think through the marriage debate with…
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Focus/Family: Stop Gay Monogamy
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Focus on the Family is known for its opposition to gay marriage. In California, however, the organization doesn’t want gays to be monogamous and responsible, either. Focus cheers lawsuits filed by Christian Right groups to stop a new California law…
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Focus/Family: Married Abroad? Stay There
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Focus on the Family declared gay Canadian couples unwelcome in the United States on Monday. Focus joined Concerned Women for America in demanding that foreign couples lie on U.S. immigration forms, stating that they are single when they are not….
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In yesterday’s Exodus commentary on reparative therapy, spokesman Randy Thomas appears unwilling to read or accurately summarize the literature that he cites — so he issues strawman arguments about homosexuals and the media instead. World-renowned researcher Dr. Robert L. Spitzer…
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Focus on the Family Mocks Marriages
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Exodus chairman and ex-gay activist Mike Haley runs the antigay politics division of Focus on the Family. Today, Focus reminded its CitizenLink newsletter readers that Focus and its Christian Right allies are the sole defenders of marriage. Focus notes that…
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Marriage Is…
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Anti-gay-marriage advocates commonly portray marriage as unitary and monolithic, capable of being nullified if stretched too far. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), for example, describes it as: faithful, exclusive, and lifelong… intimate partnership of life and love… a…
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Dr. Dobson Ignores Marriage, Scapegoats Gays
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Focus on the Family founder Dr. James Dobson writes “from [his] heart” that the institution of marriage is failing. He points out the conditions he perceived which led to his founding of FOTF: in the late 1960s and early 1970s,…
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Biblical Marriage
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Alex Frantz at Public Nuisance discusses how the Bible defines traditional marriage: Marriage in the United States shall consist of a union between one man and one or more women. (Gen. 29, 17 – 28; II Sam. 3, 2 –…
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In a July 27 commentary, Portland Oregonian associate editor David Reinhard wrote that gays should be content with a tattered patchwork of half-baked legal rights instead of fairness in civil marriage. Reinhard also said that any comparison of racial discrimination…