Marriage Equality

Do You Like Capitalism? Then, You Should Love Gay Marriage.

08.24.2010

Marriage is big business. Sure, it’s about love and being together forever and all that jazz, too. But, let’s be real: it’s a serious moneymaker. So, why not include gays?

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What Do Canada and Mexico Have that the United States Doesn't? Equality

08.13.2010

For being the self-proclaimed “land of the free,” the United States sure has gone out of its way to deny freedoms to a minority group of Americans with so many states pushing legislation to ban same sex marriages.

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Supporting Gay Marriage: It's Not About the Children. Seriously.

08.05.2010

California’s Proposition 8 has just been overturned. While a huge victory for marriage equality, with many in favor of equality rejoicing in this, the opponents of gay marriage continue their failed arguments that make sense to their personal beliefs but don’t reconcile with the Constitution. Even after logic, reason, and the law showed that their [...]

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A Simple Case for Humanity

01.30.2010

Too often the case against gay marriage toes the religious or revisionist-history lines, people arguing that marriage has always been between one man and one woman since the beginning of time and that homosexuality is a sin.  People reduce gay marriage to terms of grotesque creatures, not loving human beings and breaking nature’s law.  People [...]

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Challenging Prop 8 in Federal Court, Take One

01.11.2010

Today marked the beginning of the federal trial contesting the constitutionality of Proposition 8 in California, which outlawed marriage for homosexual couples.  Below is the opening statement from attorney Ted Olson, arguing on behalf of the couple challenging the proposition.  I just don’t see how any rebuttal holds any water whatsoever.  It’s a case for [...]

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D.C. Board: No Right To Vote On Same-Sex Marriage

11.19.2009

From California to Iowa to Arkansas to New Hampshire, the debate over the legalization of same-sex marriage has crossed the country.  Recently, Washington, D.C. passed a bill recognizing the union of same-sex couples married legally in one of the handful of states where it’s allowed. The D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics put a stop [...]

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Maine Joins the Ranks

05.06.2009

Maine’s legislators passed a bill to legalize same sex marriage.  On Wednesday, May 6th, 2009, Maine Governor John Baldacci signed it into law. That brings the total number of states that allow same sex marriage to six (assuming that New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch signs his bill into law).  And the second in a row [...]

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Yeah, Iowa!!!

04.03.2009

I love Iowa.  I loved it when I visited it last month on tour.  And I loved it when I was there last year for my friend’s wedding. And I now I love it because it has – unanimously – become the third state in the union to legalize gay marriage. The Iowa Supreme Court [...]

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