Category Archives: Same-Sex Marriage

Yay for Jews! A recent poll shows that Jews are more supportive of same-sex marriage than any other religious group in the USA (55% in favor), and another 30% on top of that favor civil unions. What happens a generation … Continue reading →

Remember the over 200 same sex weddings performed in New Paltz, NY? NBC3 reports NY State Supreme Court Justice Michael Kavanagh refused to invalidate them. Unfortunately, the judge’s reason is the couples need to be named in the case, this … Continue reading →

CVT.ca reports: Manitoba has become the fifth jurisdiction in Canada to legalize same-sex marriage. This ruling was not unexpected. The neither the provincial nor the federal government contested the case and the Judge was swayed by previous rulings in other … Continue reading →

Posting in comments at “Alas, A Blog”, Rev. Ian Brumberger suggests: God says, “No,” sends Hurricane. Rev. Brumberger’s full comment; 365.com’s story

While I feel failed marriages are always sad, equal treatment requires extension of divorce to same sex couples. So, with mixed feelings, I bring you this story, via Iafrica: Canada grants world’s first gay divorce. When the article calls this … Continue reading →

On Wednesday, Judge Loren E. McMaster of the California Superior court in Sacramento upheld a new California law that grants nearly all the duties and privileges of marriage to domestic parthers. The Argus reports: The law, in fact, gives same-sex … Continue reading →

At MarriageDebate.com, David Moloney wonders: I’m wondering whether there’s a definition of “marriage” that’s big enough to include both gay marriage and arranged marriage. I should think there would be no problem finding a definition that’s big enough. The world … Continue reading →

The Seattle Times reports: Thurston County Superior Court Judge Richard Hicks was the second trial judge in four weeks to strike down Washington’s Defense of Marriage Act, overwhelmingly approved by the Legislature six years ago. In his 38 page ruling … Continue reading →

Via the New York Times (thanks to Alas reader NancyP for the link). The text in italics indicates a passage that was added at the last minute at the insistence of religious conservatives. We strongly support President Bush’s call for … Continue reading →

Last week, David Blankenhorn at the Family Scholars Blog took umbrage at this sentence in a Times op-ed: The San Francisco decision — which somehow drew no new conservative outcries against “activist judges”– should be seen as but a bump … Continue reading →