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This weekend I participated in a historic vote by the NYS Bar Association’s House of Delegates to endorse gay marriage legislation. NYSBA is among the first statewide bar associations to back gay marriage and to urge the state legislature to enact the necessary amendment of state law to allow same-sex couples to marry and [...]
Archive for the ‘Gay marriage’ Category
May 28th, 2009
How could the California Supreme Court have overturned Prop 8 yet allowed the voters to ban same-sex marriage through a ballot measure — and done so in a principled way? Here’s how.
February 1st, 2009
Category: Gay marriage
When it comes to supporting gay marriage, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. But maybe proportionality is.
January 30th, 2009
Category: Gay marriage
Why should I participate in an institution that reinforces bigotry?
December 12th, 2008
Category: Gay marriage
Supporting Prop. 8 meant retroactively un-marrying more than 10,000 couples. It’s not surprising that some of them, and some of their friends, are just a tad angry.
December 7th, 2008
Category: Gay marriage
Benjamin Schwartz and Caitlin Flanagan are a pair of troublemakers.
