November Archive


Re-examining a controversial gay parenting study

Carolyn Moynihan | 29 November 2012
No, not Mark Regnerus' one this time, but one finding no statistically significant difference between same-sex and opposite sex outcomes.

Apropos France, again

Carolyn Moynihan | 26 November 2012
What do you do if you are in charge of a big, failing European economy?

Huge rally in France to defend marriage

Carolyn Moynihan | 22 November 2012
there are plenty of French people ready to defend marriage against new definitions.

The looming dictatorship of the “egalitarians”

Michael Kirke | 19 November 2012
We’re heading for economic dictatorship according to a writer in today’s Sunday Telegraph (UK). But another story carries a grimmer message – that Britain is already in the grip of a more pervasive and sinister dictatorship. “Primary school teachers 'could face sack' for refusing to promote gay marriage”.

“Without nature, the little children suffer”

Carolyn Moynihan | 14 November 2012
Yes, and that includes what is rightfully theirs according to human nature.

Marriage on the rocks

Michael Kirke | 13 November 2012
The likely result of gay and lesbian pressure groups pushing for the redefining of marriage is going to be that the institution will become a meaningless charade and disappear from the face of the earth. This is the ultimate conclusion of William J. Haun, a lawyer in Washington, D.C., writing in the current issue of First Things.

Devaluing the currency

Michael Kirke | 11 November 2012
Among the things which were disturbing on the campaign periphery was the vitriolic and abusive language which some commentators in the mainstream media – if the Huffington Post can now be described as such – are prepared to descend to in the debate on this issue.

How the Maine vote was won

Carolyn Moynihan | 09 November 2012
Is there a lesson for marriage advocates to learn here?

Compulsory membership legal group backs same-sex marriage

Carolyn Moynihan | 06 November 2012
The Washington State Bar Association, a body to which all attorneys have to belong, has publicly supported a "yes" vote for gay marriage in the referendum tomorrow.

So same-sex marriage “won’t hurt you”?

Carolyn Moynihan | 05 November 2012
It hurt a Vermont business couple a lot.

“Let them be polled - but not vote”

Carolyn Moynihan | 02 November 2012
Democracy is too precious to waste on everyone, according to a New York Times editorial decrying ballot initiatives (referendums) on same-sex marriage in four states.

Ex-gay men speak out on therapy

Carolyn Moynihan | 02 November 2012
Men who have overcome same-sex attraction or want to feature in a New York Times article this week.

 
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