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...Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris, who co-chairs the curricular review working group looking into this issue, said shifting to such a system would enable Harvard first-years to use advising opportunities available in the Houses...
...states nor the Federal Government can be required to confer upon unmarried couples marital status "or the legal incidents thereof," many legal scholars say the amendment would effectively ban such unions. "If you have to guess what something means, it probably doesn't belong in the Constitution," says Evan Wolfson, executive director of the pro--gay-marriage group Freedom to Marry. "This amendment is being sold deceptively to the American people...
...mistake to reduce gays' campaign for equal marriage rights to a dollar figure, but marriage has been a partly financial arrangement since it was invented. "Some of the reasons [to marry] are intangible," says Evan Wolfson of the group Freedom to Marry. "But others are tangible, and they all matter." --By John Cloud
...Wolfson was trying to promote same-sex marriage, Matt Daniels was becoming convinced that it would damage the institution of the family. Daniels, 40, runs the Alliance for Marriage, which wrote the Federal Marriage Amendment now before Congress. Daniels comes to the issues of marriage and family breakdown from a very personal place. His father walked out when he was 2, leaving his mom to work as a secretary. One night when Daniels was in third grade, she was assaulted on her way home. "She ends up with a broken back, disabled, on welfare, depressed," says Daniels, trailing...
Although the alliance has a modest budget of $900,000 a year, compared with $120 million for Focus on the Family, it has influence beyond its means. Just as Wolfson was promoting gay marriage when gays wouldn't listen, Daniels was suggesting a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage when conservatives wouldn't listen. When the alliance held a press conference to announce the idea in the summer of 2001, Daniels says, "there wasn't any debate going on about a marriage amendment." But by the following May, the alliance had lined up a Congressman--a Democrat, actually--to introduce...