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 Send to email | More on marriage in California in Policy and Politics |  By Thoughts
el 22-May-2008 | Former congressman Jim Ryun's baby boy Ned opines on marriage equality in California. He calls for state and federal constitutional amendments, saying:
if the other side on this debate wants to push their agenda down our throats thru the judicial system, we push back. But what, exactly, is being pushed down his throat? How does it affect him whether a gay couple has the right to call themselves husbands or wives, or to get the benefits afforded to married heterosexual couples?
We can set aside the various anti-constitutional blathering about how courts shouldn't overturn laws that have majority support as well. That's what courts do. They protect the rights of minorities. This ruling builds on a California Supreme Court ruling which overturned the state's eugenic anti-miscegenation laws decades before the US Supreme Court followed suit. And you better believe that those laws had majority national support when they were overturned. It doesn't matter, because those laws were wrong. They were immoral, illiberal, and unconstitutional. The fact that a bunch of conservatives think it's icky when two men, two women, a black man and a white woman or vice versa fall in love isn't legally or morally relevant.
By the way, the Loving decision and the anti-miscegenation laws themselves are a counterexample to conservative columnist Denis Prager's claim that this is ruling constitutes a "redefining of marriage for the first time in history." Marriage laws change all the time. The early books of the Bible are full of plural marriages, dowries go in and out of fashion, the age at which people may marry changes, common law marriage is accepted and then outlawed, and at the end of the day, society survives. Our notion that marriage is about love is a fairly modern concept; for much of human history, it was principally an arrangement which established social and financial ties between families. I happen to think society is better off for having seen that redefinition of marriage, and the California Supreme Court just extended that concept to the whole of society. Read the comments on this post...
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| More on marriage in California | | Former congressman Jim Ryun's baby boy Ned opines on marriage equality in California. He calls for state and federal constitutional amendments, saying:
if the other side on this debate wants to push their agenda down our throats thru the judicial system, we push back.But what, exactly, is being pushed down his throat? How does it affect him whether a gay couple [..] Read complete article | | Published 22-May-2008 by Thoughts in Policy and Politics
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| Thoughts From Kansas | Blogger | Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that |
| Marriage equality in California | | California is set to join Massachusetts as a hotbed for equality:
Same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
The court’s 4-to-3 decision striking down state laws that had limited marriages to unions between a man and a woman makes California only the second state, after Massachusetts, to allow same-sex marr [..] Read complete article | | Published 15-May-2008 by Thoughts in Policy and Politics
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| Thoughts From Kansas | Blogger | Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that |
| On marriage | | Joel Mathis is upset with the National Review. The conservative journal responds to last week's ruling against the federal Defense of Marriage Act, an act that blocks legal recognition of legal marriages between same-sex couples, by arguing:
If heterosexual coupling did not regularly produce children there would be no reason for the institution of marriage to exist, let alone [..] Read complete article | | Published 14-Jul-2010 by Thoughts in Policy and Politics
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| Thoughts From Kansas | Blogger | Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that |
| Another thought on marriage |  Martin Cothran jokes:
Are the issues of same-sex marriage and interracial marriage the same kind of issue? Well, we could be smart alecky and point out that one has issue and the other doesn't, but we won't settle for that.This is an example of a joke that isn't a joke; joking-but-for-real, if you will. He's waving off a stupid comment as a joke, but the bad joke [..] Read complete article | | Published 17-Nov-2008 by Thoughts in Policy and Politics
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| Raichu cosplayer uses Marriage Proposal |  When Chris Herbert decided to pop the question to his girlfriend of three years, Belle Starenchak, he picked the most romantic place he could think of: Anime Weekend Atlanta, with both dressed as Pokemon. It ... kind of makes sense for them.
[..] Read complete article | | Published 14-Nov-2009 by JC Fletcher in pikabellechupokemonproposal
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| Kotaku`s The Gamers Guide | Blogger | XBOX 360 Gamers Weblog
Gossip, news and leaks for obsessive gamers Kotaku As if you don't waste enough of your time in a gamer's haze, here's Kotaku: a gamer's guide that goes beyond the press release. Gossip, cheats, criticism, design, nostalgia, pred |
| Kotaku`s The Gamers Guide | Blogger | XBOX 360 Gamers Weblog
Gossip, news and leaks for obsessive gamers Kotaku As if you don't waste enough of your time in a gamer's haze, here's Kotaku: a gamer's guide that goes beyond the press release. Gossip, cheats, criticism, design, nostalgia, pred |
| Thoughts From Kansas | Blogger | Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
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| Disco. Inst. blogger: Ban marriage | | Martin Cothran, blogger for the Disco. Inst., opposes gay marriage, and wonders:
If their relationships are already stable, then why do they need to be stabilized?Compelling logic. Clearly, marriage is useless.
Of course, evidence suggests that marriage actually does have a stabilizing effect on people. And gay people, it turns out, are people, too. [..] Read complete article | | Published 21-Jun-2008 by Thoughts in Policy and Politics
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| Put your thoughts on marriage into a Catherine trailer | |
Atlus is giving fans the opportunity to participate in a Catherine trailer, which will then be used to market the game to ... well, those same fans, really. The publisher is soliciting video responses to the following three questions:
D [..] Read complete article | | Published 13-Apr-2011 by JC Fletcher in atluscatherinemicrosoftplaystationps3trailerxbox
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