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Ever since a slim majority outlawed gay marriage in California, opponents have waged national protests and petitions, urging the judicial system to reconsider the results of the Nov. 4 referendum. (Proposition 8 overturned an earlier decision by the California Supreme Court that legalized same-sex marriage.) While the court weighs whether or not to get back into the fray, the civil unrest ignited by the ban shows no sign of abating. A national protest against Prop. 8 organized by JoinTheImpact.com is scheduled for today. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which opponents say donated more than...
Diggs, who has garnered national media attention for his article “The Health Risks of Gay Sex,” was asked by TLR President Rachel L. Wagley ’11 to focus on issues besides homosexuality during the discussion, in accordance with TLR’s official stance...
...administration at all. In many ways what occurred on campus is representative of an entire social epoch. What happened here could have happened at any other university,” he says. Christopher J. Carothers ’11—who plays Assistant Dean Edward R. Gay, a member of the secret court, in “Perkins 28”—also hopes that the film will increase awareness within the Harvard community. “I would love people to hear about it. Every time I’ve talked to someone about it they?...
...Obama coalition, to be sure. In a two-party system, it's impossible to construct a majority without bringing together people who disagree on big things. But Obama's majority is at least as cohesive as Reagan's or F.D.R.'s. The cultural issues that have long divided Democrats - gay marriage, gun control, abortion - are receding in importance as a post-'60s generation grows to adulthood. Foreign policy doesn't divide Democrats as bitterly as it used to either because, in the wake of Iraq, once-hawkish working-class whites have grown more skeptical of military force...
...Receding Right Flash forward to the evening of Nov. 4, and you can see why liberalism has sprung back to life. Ideologically, the crowds who assembled to hear Obama on election night were linear descendants of those egg throwers four decades before. They too believe in racial equality, gay rights, feminism, civil liberties and people's right to follow their own star. But 40 years later, those ideas no longer seem disorderly. Crime is down and riots nonexistent; feminism is so mainstream that even Sarah Palin embraces the term; Chicago mayor Richard Daley, son of the man who told police...