Tag: Marriage

  • A “Gay” Spring

    First published at 365gay.com on April 10, 2009 Spring arrived for gays this year, not with daffodils and cherry blossoms, but with Iowa and Vermont. First Iowa, where the state…

  • The Trouble with Common Ground

    First published at 365gay.com on April 4, 2009 Readers of this column occasionally complain that I’m too nice to our enemies. They may have a point. I’m an easygoing person…

  • Why Not Plural Marriage?

    First published at 365gay.com on March 23, 2009 Recent discussions of various civil-union proposals have revived some familiar questions, including “Why limit such recognition to couples, as opposed to larger…

  • Strange Bedfellows

    First published at Between The Lines News on March 12, 2009 Recently I wrote about a proposed compromise by David Blankenhorn, who opposes gay marriage, and Jonathan Rauch, who supports…

  • Can We Find Common Ground on Gay Marriage?

    First published at 365gay.com on February 28, 2009 There is something very satisfying about ideological purity and the righteous indignation that often accompanies it. It can be fun to paint…

  • The Power of Words

    First published at 365gay.com on February 13, 2009 Two decades ago, when I first came out of the closet, my mother had an irritating habit of referring to my boyfriend…

  • Hospitality, not Homosexuality

    First published at 365gay.com on February 6, 2009 I’ve written in this column of my friendship with Glenn Stanton [http://www.365gay.com/opinion/corvino-friends-with-the-enemy/], a Focus on the Family employee whom I regularly debate…

  • Gay Sex Isn’t Weird. Sex Is.

    First published at 365gay.com on January 16, 2009 Why are our opponents so obsessed with butt sex? I’ve personally pondered this question more times than is probably healthy. It occurred…

  • Margie Christoffersen’s Freedom – and Ours

    First published at 365gay.com on December 19, 2008 Marjorie Christoffersen seems like a nice enough person by all reports, including those of gay friends and acquaintances. But Christoffersen made a…

  • The Odd Couple

    First published at Between the Lines News on December 18, 2008 Glenn Stanton is a friend of mine. He’s also badly wrong about same-sex marriage, and I tell him so—frequently,…