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...Over the next 10 years, there will be an explosion of cases testing just how "real" stepparents are. This will never get the attention surrounding same-sex cases, because stepfamilies are just as populous in red states as blue, and no politician can use it to their advantage. Nor are stepfamilies subjected to the same degree of prejudice. Stepparents might be vilified, but they are vilified one at a time - not as a class. However, the systematic bias against them is very real...
Merck prides itself on being socially enlightened. The drugmaker gives its employees diversity training and extends health insurance to same-sex partners. But a report to be released this week by the Washington-based Center for Political Accountability (C.P.A.) shows that in the 2004 elections, Merck was one of 18 companies that gave money to judicial candidates whose conservative views clashed with the corporations' liberal policies. Merck, the report says, donated $1,000 to Samac Richardson, a business-friendly candidate for the Mississippi Supreme Court who ran on an anti-gay-marriage platform and in a TV ad boasted...
...father, and I believe in him so strongly. When push came to shove, this election was about huge issues facing our country. Given that we live in this world where terrorists would love to attack us, I didn't have the luxury of being a single-issue voter on same-sex marriage...
Neha Chauhan ’08 and Lauren E. Bray ’08 have been married for a year and a half, according to their Facebook profiles. But even though Massachusetts’ same-sex marriage law is more than 23 months old, you won’t find any record of Chauhan’s and Bray’s union at the Cambridge courthouse. Opponents of same-sex unions warn that Massachusetts’ law will undermine the sanctity of marriage. But the Facebook has already thrown sanctity out the window. Chauhan and Bray say they...
...Feingold should be on the list for putting forward values and policies before the American people and offering Democrats a chance to return to the clarity and authenticity needed to regain power. From his opposition to the war in Iraq to his support for ending the exclusion of committed same-sex couples from marriage, he is emerging as the one to watch as the political pendulum swings...