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History Professor Nancy F. Cott testified on Tuesday in a federal case against California's Proposition 8—which currently restricts same-sex marriage within state borders—to provide an overview of the various marriage restrictions in American history...
...plaintiffs’ lawyers called upon Cott, an expert in the history of marriage and a scholar of 20th century gender relations, to the stand on Tuesday. In her testimony, she drew connections between the current restrictions on same-sex marriage and former marriage restrictions, such as the laws that once forbade white women from marrying Chinese men and the infamous miscegenation laws repealed in 1967 that prohibited white women from marrying black...
...many equal rights advocates, her testimony can be used to support a historical argument—namely, that previous marriage restrictions are now unconstitutional and that same-sex restrictions should follow suit—that is essential in establishing the legality of same-sex marriage...
Scientists began looking for what we now know as testosterone as early as the 1840s, but research was hampered by pervasive skepticism that such a substance existed. In 1926 scientists finally first documented the existence of a male sex hormone in a bull's testicles, and by 1935 they had chemically synthesized testosterone...
...more moderate Ulster Unionist Party, which recently forged an alliance with the British Conservative Party. "The DUP grass roots is in shock [over the affair], and the party is denying reality if they think it won't be electorally disastrous," Graham says. (Read "Mrs. Robinson: Northern Ireland's Own Sex Scandal...