The open question in an age of polarization is this: have all those prepared to change their minds on the issue of gay marriage already done so?
Douglas Forbes | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics
How can it possibly not be time that America acknowledges marriage for one and all? Otherwise, the people of this nation must exercise their right and responsibility to abolish this failed form and reinstitute it altogether.
James Rotondi | Posted 12.08.2009 | New York
Is it is really acceptable to start putting human rights up for a vote, either on the Senate floor or the public voting booth?
Mark Olmsted | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
What makes civil unions at present unequal is not their separateness but the host of federal benefits conferred by marriage that even the best state domestic partnerships can't accord.
Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics
Even if people are willing, as good citizens, to grant gays and lesbians "all the rights married people have," they can't stand the thought of seeing marriage, a "sacred" word, and concept, brutalized.
AP | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
NEW YORK — An increasing majority of Americans favors allowing same-sex couples to obtain most of the same rights as married straight couples, b...
AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Nearly 150,000 same-sex couples reported being in marriage relationships last year, many more than the number of actual weddings an...
WBBM Newsradio | Steve Miller | Posted 07.30.2009 | Chicago
Senator Roland Burris was at Chicago's Gay Pride Parade yesterday, declaring his support for civil unions but saying marriage is for "perpetuation of ...
Rick Horowitz | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics
"You saw the press conference?" "Of course I saw the press conference. Very strange." "Very strange. And you read the e-mails?" "Of course I re...
Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics
Bill Maher used to tell a joke, which is funny but not true. He'd ask the question why are we trying to stop gay people from getting married; they're ...
Jane Minogue | Posted 07.24.2009 | Living
The irrationality and endurance of the intolerance of homosexuality really defies precise explanation, as does intolerance of Jews.
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics
Steele can perch that white hard hat atop his head, but he's going to have to labor at learning some hard philosophical lessons before becoming a real steelworker, a true union man.
Kase Wickman | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
A gay Starbucks barista's wife gets better medical benefits than if she was married to a female senator.
Blaise Zerega | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics
Leave it to Michael Eric Dyson to connect the dots between Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Ghandi, James Baldwin and Martin Luther King.
Jennifer Vanasco | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics
The Pantagraph reports that Illinois' civil unions bill, after passing a state House committee, was left to languish at the end of the session. The ...
Joel B. Schwartzberg | Posted 06.26.2009 | Media
The California Supreme Court may have just weighed in on gay marriage, but participants in the NOW on PBS gay marriage interactive debate are still having their say.
David Ambroz | Posted 06.18.2009 | Living
I'm a radical liberal awaiting equality but Daniel -- forgive the lack of poetry -- will you domestically partner me?
Paul Jenkins | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics
There is little doubt that the country has made a political left-turn, leaving opportunistic moderates from both parties scrambling to find their cherished middle.
Daily Herald | Posted 06.08.2009 | Chicago
We believe in fairness. We believe a majority of Illinois residents believe in fairness. And we demand the Legislature do the right and just thing and...
Steve Clemons | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics
There is no excuse at all -- none -- for the White House to allow the bigotry and harassment of gays and lesbians in the armed forces to stand. Gays populate the armed services now.
Anne Dilenschneider | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics
Separating the elements of civil and religious marriage, as the French have done since 1792, might provide a way to solve the heated debate over marriage.
Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 05.27.2009 | Politics
There has been a transformation in our thinking on this issue over the past half-century. What would once have been regarded as nothing short of weird now seems perfectly sensible.
Sandy Maisel | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics
For the state to sanction marriage between males and females, but to deny the same to gay couples violates our Constitution. More than that, it violates the basic essence of who we are as a people.
Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 05.22.2009 | Politics
Miss California, like many who share her take on the marriage issue, was careful to talk about her "opinion" and "beliefs" and the way she was raised as if this excused her intolerance. Barack Obama talks about tradition and belief as well in defense of his own position.
Michael Conniff | Posted 05.20.2009 | Living
The disintegration of civilization is now officially upon us now that Vermont has legalized gay marriage--the first state legislature to do so. I onc...
Peggy Drexler | Posted 12.14.2009 | Politics