Showing posts with label interracial marriage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label interracial marriage. Show all posts
Friday, March 29, 2013

In the News: Debates About Rights Are About People, More on What-about-Children?! and I'm-Not-a-Homophobe-But Arguments

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(As the day goes on): sorry for the hiatus in my blogging today. As my previous post indicated, I intended to note some more newsworthy...
Thursday, March 28, 2013

Americans Talk Religion, Morality, Discrimination, Law: Commentary on Supreme Court Prop 8 and DOMA Hearings

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A miscellany of articles (in addition to those to which I've already linked) that have caught my attention in the past several days, ...
Friday, March 8, 2013

Rights for Me and Thee: Howard University Files Amicus Brief Supporting Marriage Equality

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Uh-oh. As I just noted , one of the most predictable tactics of the hard right in the U.S. (including not a few U.S. Catholic bishops...
Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Forbidden Marriages, and States' Rights: A Story from the Past

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Here's a case drawn from my research into my family's roots, which illustrates the kinds of tangles that can develop when on...
Thursday, May 10, 2012

Andrew Sullivan on North Carolina's 1875 Constitutional Amendment: Historical Lessons Not to Forget

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And speaking of the long, hard struggle that has attended every human rights breakthrough in American culture; and speaking of the pr...
Saturday, February 25, 2012

Tribal Catholicism Still Going Strong with Anti-Contraceptive Politicking

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And, to add sociological depth to what I just posted about the disconnect between Jesus, the gospels, and what some Catholics today wan...
Friday, February 10, 2012

1967 or 2012? John Aravosis on NOM Response to Prop 8 Ruling in California

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I like John Aravosis's take on the National Organization for Marriage's  denunciation of the recent California court ruling f...
Sunday, October 30, 2011

More News from the Week: A Fantasia about Bishops' Apologies for Catholic Homophobia, and Mr. Lori Testifies Before Congress

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Bishop Lori Testifying Before House Judiciary Subcommittee, 25 Oct. 2011 Other read-worthy articles from the previous week I...
Monday, September 19, 2011

Continuing the Discussion of Family: An Historical Perspective

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At the risk of being immodest (but also because I don't seem to find much of substance about which to blog this morning), I thoug...
Saturday, July 2, 2011

Missouri Congresswoman Stuck in 1967, re: Marriage Rights

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Republican Congresswoman from Missouri, Vicky Hartzler , told a conservative gathering in D.C. last month that permitting same-sex marriag...
Friday, June 10, 2011

Anniversary of Loving v. Virginia Approaches: Joan Walsh on Marriage Equality

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Joan Walsh represents the good face of American Catholicism, the face of the large majority of American Catholics who support the civil r...
Saturday, January 15, 2011

John Allen on Cardinal George as U.S. Bishops' Thinker-in-Chief: Eugene Kennedy Responds (Say Whaaa?!)

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Yesterday, I noted a lecture that the outgoing president of the U.S. Catholic Bishops' Conference, Cardinal Francis George, gave in De...
Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Placing God on the Side of Cruelty: America's History of Denying the Right of Marriage in God's Name

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So I’ve spent the week thinking about marriage. And what happens when people are married, but their legally sanctioned marriage is not reco...
Thursday, November 20, 2008

Gay Rights and Black Rights as Essentially Different: New Neocon Meme

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Ali Frick reports today on Alternet re: the “newly popular conservative trope” echoed by Rev. Mike Huckabee, Baptist minister and former go...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Faith In America: Challenging Bigotry Masquerading as Religious Truth

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A recent email announcement from the organization Faith In America (see the list of links for this blog) contains some heartening news about...
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Monday, June 16, 2008

Just a Cock-Eyed Optimist

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And, on this day when California begins permitting gay couples to marry, a sign of hope: the picture to the left is from Saturday’s (14 Jun...