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  • Re: Score one for freedom!

    KevClark64:A great day for freedom, as long as you don't consider democratic self-government an important freedom. If only we could get the philosopher kings on the courts to decide all questions, and get rid of the horrible remnants of self-government, perhaps this country could finally be freed from kooks and haters. Did you know that the ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by BassSinger on May 16, 2008

  • Re: Gay Marriage in California

    Hman: The problem with this decision is that it descriminates against all of the major religions in CA as well as the world that hold the belief that ''Holy Matrimony'' is between a man and a woman. No, it doesn't. The court specifically held that, as a result of this decision, ''... no religion will be required to change its religious policies ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by RunTam on May 16, 2008

  • Gay Marriage in California

    Prof. Yoshino writes that ''the Massachusetts opinion of 2003 will always have the fame of a first mover.'' The actual ''first mover'' was a decision of the Ontario, Canada, Court of Appeal, in June, 2003. In that decision, the Court held that it violates the Constitutional right to equal treatment under the law, without discrimination to ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by jeffryhouse on May 16, 2008

  • Re: gay marriage

    Well, first the need to marry is about loving one another and comittment. But equally as importantly it is about being able to be there for the person you love. For example, even finding out what is going on for your loved one who is in the hospital is impossible if you are not a direct relative, much less making decisions for them when they are ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by LorrettaW on May 16, 2008

  • Same-sex marriage - a civil disagreement

    Pride takes on prejudice with same-sex ceremony Well, apparently at PSU main where I once went to college and slacked off, they had a same-sex 'commitment ceremony' with protesters in the area and the two sides managed to not attack each other (physically), at least. And they had church-goers on both sides, with the Unitarian Universalist ...
    Posted to Faith-Based by silent.observer on March 31, 2008

  • Obama Endorsement Contains Foolish Statement re Marriage

    Prof. Doug Kmiec foolishly writes:As a Republican, I strongly wish to preserve traditional marriage not as a suspicion or denigration of my homosexual friends but as recognition of the significance of the procreative family as a building block of society.Who is to say that ''non-procreative'' families (e.g., those built by adoption, headed by ...
    Posted to Convictions by selowitch on March 24, 2008

  • If we want people to take marriage seriously...

    Let's make it available to everyone. As a woman in my twenties, I find it hard to have respect for the idea of marriage, because it doesn't seem to have any bearing on whether people stay committed to each other. I see single-sex couples who are barred from getting married staying together for life, and I see people my own age who have already ...
    Posted to The Best Policy by kellekms on March 23, 2008

  • On gay marriage/civil unions

    Skipping past the debate in California and the state supreme court getting involved there, I went for the Iowa headline instead today. The story there is that the issue is not as black & white as one might think. I found the charts especially interesting. While a clear majority comes out for traditional marriage and against gay marriage, ...
    Posted to Faith-Based by silent.observer on March 3, 2008

  • Charles Barkley on "Fake Christians"

    ...as well as John McCain, Obama, gay marriage and his plans to run for governor of Alabama in 2014 LINK
    Posted to Faith-Based by Th Paine on February 16, 2008

  • Marriage in a free society

    One of the challenges of living in a free society is being confronted by things that we don't agree with, or are even repulsed by. That's a problem, but not a legal one. If we say we value freedom, then the criteria to judge the legality of an action, be it gay marriage or otherwise, is this: Is this action harmful to society or the individual? ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by scottmansfield on July 28, 2007
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