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Conrad Black loves a good fight. The blustery press baron who owns the Chicago Sun-Times, Britain's Daily Telegraph and more than 140 other newspapers worldwide often writes letters to his own publications taking potshots at opponents. Two years ago, he even renounced his Canadian citizenship in a public battle with Prime Minister Jean Chretien in order to become a British peer, Lord Black of Crossharbour. As biographer Peter C. Newman put it, "He has the body language of a puma in heat...
...differ in gender. As the SJC correctly identified, prohibiting gays and lesbians from marrying those they love repeats one of the ugliest and most persistent perversions of American civil society—it creates a second, inferior class of residents not entitled to the full protections and privileges of citizenship. It took too many years for America to realize that it was wrong to prevent women from voting or African-Americans from living as free human beings; bans on gay marriage, though the right they rob is comparatively far smaller, are variations on the same abhorrence...
...priority is that same-sex couples be afforded the privileges of marriage, but as long as they are prevented from taking part in the very same institution as heterosexuals—name and all—gays and lesbians will still be penned in an un-American second-class citizenship...
...Islam, yet in the 1990s we engaged three times in combat - in the Persian Gulf and in the Balkans - to rescue Kuwait, Bosnia and Kosovo, Muslim peoples all. And in the last two cases, there was nothing in it for the U.S.; it was humanitarianism and good international citizenship of the highest order...
...Islam, yet in the 1990s we engaged three times in combat--in the Persian Gulf and in the Balkans--to rescue Kuwait, Bosnia and Kosovo, Muslim peoples all. And in the last two cases, there was nothing in it for the U.S.; it was humanitarianism and good international citizenship of the highest order...