Tag: Marriage

  • The Pope’s Impotent Argument

    First published in Between the Lines, May 18, 2006. Last week Pope Benedict spoke out against gay marriage and civil unions. “Only the rock of total and irrevocable love between…

  • Polygamy Illogic Strikes Again

    First published in Between the Lines on March 23, 2006. In his nationally syndicated column of March 17, Charles Krauthammer uses the HBO series “Big Love” (about a modern-day polygamist…

  • Left-Handed Desks and Same-Sex Marriages

    First published in Between the Lines on February 26, 2006 I have just completed a week’s worth of same-sex marriage debates with Glenn Stanton of Focus on the Family. During…

  • Open Relationships and Double Standards

    First published in Between the Lines on February 9, 2006 As I embark upon a week’s worth of same-sex marriage debates with Glenn Stanton of Focus on the Family, I…

  • Debating the Indefensible?

    First published as “Angry Lesbians and Right-Wing Nutcases” in Between the Lines on January 26, 2006 In a few weeks I’ll be doing a “Michigan tour” debating same-sex marriage with…

  • Kurtz’s Confusions

    First published in Between the Lines, January 11, 2006 Stanley Kurtz is at it again. In the cover story for the December 26th Weekly Standard—“Here Come the Brides: Plural Marriage…

  • The Brokeback Buzz

    First published in Between the Lines on December 22, 2005. It was the kind of film that changes lives. And it changed mine—seeing a true gay love story, playing in…

  • Same-Sex Marriage: The End of Rights?

    First published October 27, 2005, in Between the Lines. During a recent debate in Bar Harbor, Maine, I was confronted with a seemingly novel argument against same-sex marriage. Rev. John…

  • Marrying Sheep and Cell Phones — Not

    First published April 14, 2005, in Between the Lines. In recent weeks I have been traveling the country doing lectures and debates on gay marriage. The first was at Texas…

  • Civil Discourse on Civil Unions

    First published January 20, 2005, in Between the Lines Some of the nastiest mail I receive is not from right-wing homophobes, or even bitter ex-boyfriends, but from members of our…