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...million in television airtime, allowing the congressman to wait until the past couple weeks before airing his own ads. Last weekend, he introduced a TV spot that waded into a thorny issue revived by this week's New Jersey Supreme Court ruling in favor of equal rights for same-sex couples. In a voice that sounds like Clint Eastwood, a narrator claims a vote for Ellsworth will mean a vote for Nancy Pelosi and a gay agenda. "Pelosi will then put in motion her radical plan to advance the homosexual agenda, led by Barney Frank, reprimanded by the House after...
...that will seem silly - and unjust - in 20 years, the court says this explicitly: ?We will not presume that a separate statutory scheme, which uses a title other than marriage, contravenes equal protection principles, so long as the rights and benefits of civil marriage are made equally available to same-sex couples.? The Plessy court couldn?t have said it better: separate railway cars for blacks are fine, as long as they are just as nice as the ones for whites. Don?t bother about that curtain between the black and white cars. ?Marriages,? ?civil unions,? ?two guys shacking...
...sexuality when arguments both for and against women’s suffrage implicated Victorian images of “womanly virtue,” derived from the notion that women were “passionless,” asexual beings? Conversely, can we really say that “same-sex marriage” is “well understood without discussion of gender issues” when arguments against same-sex marriage constantly invoke gender norms of fatherhood and motherhood (“children need a mom and a dad”), and when marriage has played such...
...podium, Eva Z. Lam ’10 articulated individual rights and privacy arguments in support of gay marriage, on behalf of the BGLTSA and the Dems. “Love should be the basis for marriage,” Lam said, noting that over 600,000 same-sex couples in America cannot legalize their commitments. “It should be about the private and personal decisions of individuals, not the government definition.” Christopher B. Lacaria ’09, a staff writer for the Salient, responded with a defense of the institutional definition of marriage...
...While they alienated voters, Ford hit the airwaves with one ad after another, presenting himself as a conservative, middle-of-the-road Democrat who supports posting the Ten Commandments in public buildings, opposes same-sex marriage, and reminding Tennesseans that during his tenure in Congress he supported $5.5 trillion in federal tax cuts. Thanks to a personal charisma reminiscent of Bill Clinton's and a marathon schedule that includes visiting the most remote areas in the state, Ford inoculated himself against charges that he was an unwelcome, out-of-touch liberal from Memphis...