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...decide to take vows of loyalty will not be legally wed since gay marriage is outlawed in Massachusetts. Even if, as in the ambitious plan of Governor William F. Weld '66, homosexual marriages performed in other states are recognized here, homosexual weddings in Memorial Church will not receive the sanction of the law. So, as we encourage the Ministry's task force to embrace homosexual commitment ceremonies, we also encourage Governor Weld and state legislators to move forward with the legalization of gay marriage...
...What concerns me is that the Record has taken this action in the face of a threat of discipline," Dershowitz said. "An apology was called for, but it should have been a spontaneous apology. When an apology is elicited by the threat of sanction, I get concerned...
...with some reluctance that I reached for some sanction. I'm delighted we didn't have to go that route," Nesson said. "I'm delighted it's settled. I'm not at all sure I would have...
DUBLIN: Divorce, with a lot of strings attached, became legal in Ireland Thursday. Despite official sanction, breaking up is still hard to do more than a year after after foes narrowly lost a bitterly contested referendum but succeeded in writing the laws so that divorce will be a cumbersome bureaucratic procedure for the country's estimated 90,000 separated couples. To end a marriage, couples must first assemble a mass of sworn statements on finances, pension rights, health care benefits and child welfare before a court hearing date can be set. Next step: meeting the eligibility requirements. According...
Throughout the debate over assisted suicide, it has been understood that a certain number of American doctors--between 7% and 9%, say researchers--have been willing to help desperate patients die, regardless of legal sanction. But a study in last week's New England Journal of Medicine provides a grim window into the revised norms of a plague community. A group led by clinical psychologist Lee Slome reports that in a survey of 118 San Francisco-area physicians working with AIDS patients, 53% indicated (via an anonymous, self-administered questionnaire) that they had knowingly prescribed a deadly dose of narcotics...