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...cultural hegemony of an Anglo-Saxon, Protestant conservatism. Allowing same-sex couples the right to enter into civil marriage in the United States does not, however, impinge in any way on the cultural or religious freedoms that Bush claims to protect. Instead, it affords bisexual, gay, lesbian and transgender (BGLT) people a legal status that is granted unconditionally to heterosexual couples upon request...
...forefront of this battle for equality. Despite the unlikelihood of the amendment gaining the two-thirds support in both houses of Congress and the support of constitutional conventions in 38 states that it needs to become law, it is imperative that we support efforts to end discrimination against the BGLT population. Write letters to your state senators encouraging them to join the fight or thanking them for their support. And join the BGLTSA on March 11 at noon at the Massachusetts State House to oppose parallel efforts to write in discrimination to the Massachusetts state constitution. Let us hope...
...Alliance for Marriage, asserts that “marriage is the key to reducing the high levels of youth crime and child poverty.” Even if we believe this claim, though, it’s still hard to see how Daniels can get away with scapegoating the BGLT population instead of addressing the divorce and broken homes that are the endpoint for so many heterosexual marriages. Illogical arguments like this only serve to incite hatred and violence against BGLT people...
...percent of respondents said that the states should decide on the issue of same-sex marriage, whereas only 43 percent actually supported the proposed amendment. With or without widespread support, though, this amendment is a miscarriage of justice that would create a constitutionally-delineated second-class status for the BGLT population...
...text of the proposed Federal Marriage Amendment does not stop at defining marriage as a “union of a man and a woman”—it goes on to strip some BGLT people of the domestic partnership benefits that they have fought valiantly to gain over the past decades. Supporters of the amendment have claimed that it would continue to allow non-marriage civil unions, but the proposed amendment unambiguously states, “Neither this Constitution or the constitution of any State, nor state or federal law, shall be construed to require that marital...