Category Archives: Same-Sex Marriage

Hey, remember that zany American Family Association poll about gay marriage? After getting results overwhelmingly in favor of same-sex marriage, the AFA has decided not to send the results of the poll to Congress, after all. As of Jan. 19, … Continue reading →

The folks over at MarriageMovement.org are angry at the New York Times, devoting post after post to criticizing its coverage. Why? Because the Times article on the Bush administration’s Marriage Initiative included this passage: The [Bush administration] officials said they … Continue reading →

Eve, our hostess at “MarriageDebate.com,” invites us to discuss if the same-sex marriage (SSM) debate is about homosexuality. At the most literal level, of course, SSM is about same-sex relationships. I mean, duh. You might as well ask if a … Continue reading →

Earlier today, I responded to the first half of Eve’s National Catholic Register article, regarding “the bait and switch.” I was going to respond to the other half, regarding “marriage is for procreation,” but happily Gabriel Rosenberg has already done … Continue reading →

I’ve been meaning to link to this Debitage post on same-sex marriage for a while, which seems to me to be very on-target. After reading a few recent attempts to justify heterosexuals-only marriage, I’m starting to get what some of … Continue reading →

Congrats to Eve Tushnet for her article in the National Catholic Register, “Defending Marriage, After Massachusetts.” About half of Eve’s case is the familiar “marriage-is-about-heterosexual-reproduction-because-I-say-it-is” argument. First, though, comes a relatively new twist – what Eve terms the “bait and … Continue reading →

Dear Barry, Participation in America’s Poll on Homosexual Marriage at marriagepoll.com continues at a steady pace. As of noon Saturday, December 28, the results were as follows: I oppose legalization of homosexual marriage and “civil unions” total votes: 201914 I … Continue reading →

Gabriel Rosenberg’s response to the “gay marriage will make it impossible to outlaw group marriage” argument, from MarriageDebate.com, deserves to be widely read: Let us examine precisely what a person denied entry into such a “group marriage” would be arguing … Continue reading →