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Great dad, awful policy
The Discomfort Zone
This week was a big one for advocates of marriage equality. On Friday, Ohio senator Rob Portman endorsed same-sex marriage, citing his own son’s coming out as the basis for his change of heart. Then on Monday, former Secretary of State and one-time Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton threw her Read More…
Mr. Pope and my sex life
Sex on Blogday
Jorge Mario Bergoglio became Pope Francis this past Wednesday, the 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. He’s a Jesuit from Argentina — the first pope from the Americas. It will be interesting to see if any changes come as a result of his different background compared to his predecessors. Read More…
Off the beat: Marriage, morality and philosopher kings
In an interview during the 2012 election season, a prominent American politician spoke highly of advocates of traditional marriage. They are motivated by an impulse to “preserve and strengthen families,” he said. He avoided framing the debate over gay marriage as a civil rights issue, calling it instead a disagreement Read More…
Supreme Court agrees to take up cases on gay marriage
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take up a case on the constitutionality of Proposition 8 – the measure banning gay marriage in the state of California, the court announced Friday. Read More…
A religious president
Religiously Inclined
Armed with my little blue notebook, I ventured out into Upper Sproul last week with the intention of talking to people about how the religious beliefs of our two main presidential candidates factor into the election. I was shocked to discover that I should have been asking a much more Read More…
Change we can believe in
NATIONAL AFFAIRS: We are encouraged and ecstatic by President Barack Obama’s public announcement that he supports same-sex marriage.
With President Barack Obama’s Wednesday announcement in support of same-sex marriage, the country is on its way to becoming, as our Founding Fathers put it, a more perfect Union. Obama’s declaration is historically significant and monumentally important. No president has ever come out in favor of marriage equality before Obama. Read More…
Santorum says…
"People's champion" fails to realize that even Everyman has college dreams
As Americans, we believe that we are free to pursue whatever makes us happy and allows us to live a better, more prosperous life. A large part of this “pursuit of happiness” has to do with the fact that, as Americans, we have the opportunity for upward mobility, which is Read More…
Bending sacred bonds
Insurance companies agree: The most stabilizing forces in our society are the bonds of marriage. When two people find the passion to commit to one another, the urge to perpetrate moving violations suddenly goes out the window — along with any lingering family suspicion of residence in the closet. But Read More…