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...audience; in his self-absorption, Alfie considers his life to be the constant focus of a camera. Alfie’s concise, humanist witticisms reveal a clever, detached assessment of every woman he sees, like “There’s one thing that puts me off marriage??married women...
...state. Despite the provision that marriage, in the religious sense, will remain intact, by delaying any move towards legalizing civil unions Bush has shown just how little he cares about gay Americans. Evangelical Christians who voted for Bush out of fear of the words “gay marriage?? are forgetting that the Bible also tells them to be compassionate, even towards so-called “sinners...
...it’s great: Why should the fact of mutual heterosexual desire mean that we should all run for “authorization” (Dick Cheney’s term from Tuesday’s debate)? A better way to preserve the “sanctity of marriage?? (Bush’s words) would be to distinguish a lifelong emotional, personal, financial commitment from sexual curiosity and desire. An unintended consequence of marriages like my former classmate’s is that young folks are making life-altering decisions largely informed by sexual desire...
...dissimilitude between the terms ‘civil union’ and ‘civil marriage?? is not innocuous; it is a considered choice of language that reflects a demonstrable assigning of same-sex, largely homosexual, couples to second-class status,” the justices wrote in their majority opinion...
...ruling to avoid the day of reckoning that came on May 17. He also joined others in a push for the court to backtrack in favor of civil unions, in which same-sex couples would receive all the benefits of straight marriage without the name of “marriage??—a bizarre semantic gambit which, though better than no rights for gays and lesbians, would certainly not conform to the correct standard set out by the court. Perhaps the most egregious suggestion—made by conservatives in Massachusetts and the nation as a whole?...