Category Archives: Same-Sex Marriage

From The One True b!X: That poll, based on 600 completed interviews with likely voters conducted July 8-12 by Decision Rsearch, found 46% of likely voters opposing the measure and 49% supporting it — within the poll’s 4% margin of … Continue reading →

From the current Willamette Week: In a letter sent to the 244,587 Oregonians who signed their petition, the Defense of Marriage Coalition revealed what’s really at stake for kids if the [Oregon anti-same-sex-marriage] amendment doesn’t pass. “Beginning in kindergarten, children … Continue reading →

Freespace has an excellent post dismantling the concept of “anti-democratic judges.” Here’s a sample: But the people created the judiciary, and they have it in their power (though not their rights) to destroy the judiciary power entirely. Given that choice, … Continue reading →

From the San Francisco Chronicle: Washington — The House voted Thursday to strip federal courts of jurisdiction over the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act — an unprecedented incursion into judicial terrain — as Republican leaders continued their drive against same- … Continue reading →

In general, in my posts about same-sex marriage, I try to link to and criticize the very best arguments of the anti-SSM crowd. There are a bunch of reasons to do this: it’s more honest, it forces my arguments to … Continue reading →

Family Scholars Blogger Tom Sylvester (who is pro-SSM) has posted a two-part series, “Whose Insight Is This?” (Part 1 and Part 2). Here’s a sample: WHOSE INSIGHT IS THIS?: Same-sex-marriage advocates have argued that marriage is nothing more than a … Continue reading →