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...this comes at a time when television is subject to greater scrutiny than ever before--dating back, at least, to then Vice President Dan Quayle's famous 1992 speech in which he lambasted the character Murphy Brown for choosing to have a child out of wedlock. One can endlessly debate the question of whether television influences society or reflects it: Does Ellen Morgan's coming out in what is still our massest medium legitimize homosexuality, or does the sponsorship of a bottom-line business like ABC merely reflect its acceptance by a significant portion of the population? Clearly, the answer...
Though David himself was not a street-wise youngster, he fathered a daughter out of wedlock at the age of 19. That experience gave particular meaning to the problems of innercity medicine he later encountered while in the SUNY-Buffalo medical school. David has been married for 29 years and now has three children...
...champions of the amendment contend they set the same standard for homosexuals and heterosexuals: no sex outside wedlock. But its opponents point out a double standard: the church does not allow monogamous, same-sex couples to marry. "I feel like my church has slapped me in the face," says Scott Anderson, co-moderator of Presbyterians for Lesbian and Gay Concerns. "This is an action rooted in fear and not in love." Anderson had been pastor of the Bethany Presbyterian Church in Sacramento, California, until members of his congregation, opposed to some of his policies, "outed...
Horowitz said that although he "still believes in the liberation of the poor and minorities," he now believes the welfare system promotes dependency, breaks up families and is an incentive for women to have children out of wedlock...
...sent them to the New Yorker. She wrote for the magazine throughout her life, becoming its China correspondent in 1935. In China she became temporarily addicted to opium, befriended Mao Zedong and met her future husband, a British intelligence officer by whom she proudly had a child out of wedlock...