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...that case, get ready for a larger crop of June weddings next year--and possibly an even more explosive presidential election. The legal repercussions could go national quickly. Gay couples from out of state who wed in Massachusetts would be likely to sue in their home states to claim the benefits of marriage in such areas as joint property, health insurance, child custody and inheritance. The federal Defense of Marriage Act of 1996 mandates that no state is required to recognize another's same-sex marriages. But no state has performed a gay marriage yet, so the law has never...
Plath and Hughes were wed just four months after they met, and the marriage burned fast and hot. Diane Middlebrook's Her Husband (Viking; 361 pages) takes us inside the tight, intense feedback loop of two obsessive, competitive writers who read and critiqued each other's work fresh from the typewriter. In time, the intensity turned claustrophobic for Hughes. He began an affair with another woman, and the couple separated. But in the agonizing aftermath of their marriage, Plath found a new and devastatingly powerful voice, the voice of "Lady Lazarus," "Daddy" and the other towering, terrifying poems that would...
Ultimately, then, gay marriage is not an issue of Massachusetts law, but of the fundamental freedoms enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. And ultimately the federal government must step into its essential role as guarantor of those freedoms to unambiguously recognize the right of adult citizens across America to wed one another, no matter their sex. But with today’s narrow-minded White House, where President Bush takes as gospel that “marriage is a sacred institution between a man and a woman” and has established a holiday to bigotry in October?...
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