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POPSRepublican Candiates for Iowa Governor on Gay Marriage How far out of touch can you be. One is saying he will veto every bill, including the budget, until the legislature delivers him an amendment to the state constitution banning gay marriage. Another suggests that the Governor can overrule the State Supreme Court with an executive order. Now there's respect for a co-equal branch of the government, init?
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POPSGay Couples Not Monogamous I'm shocked! Shocked! We actually are redefining marriage, and that's ok. We do not have to be locked into the institutions of the past/present. Slavery was once an acceptable institution and acting as if your wife was your property was once acceptable. We can and do change and our institutions change. Institutions were created for people, not the other way around.
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POPSSupport for and against Prop.8 According to trial testimony 34% of the U.S. population belong to churches that supported Prop.8 and 2% to those opposes. Of course that 34% is inflated with Catholics, many of whom do not support their church's position on this issue.
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POPSHetrosexuals suffer loss of identity with gay-marriage This author has hit on something. A person's identity is important and if/as the meaning of marriage changes, it is less clear what you mean when you say you are married. I can understand this loss. I have long argued that if it is the word marriage that we are fighting over then we should use a different legal term and take the victory and move on. But as words do have meaning the more I am confronted with the opposition to gay people marring the more I believe that it is vitally important that they do gain the right to use that term in a legal sense.
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POPSHemingway's six word novel This is truly the perfect junction of writer and reader. This "novel" is not complete until you bring your own experience and perspective to it. I immediately colored in many details just from reading those six words.
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POPSSwiss court fines speeder $290,000 Good for the Swiss - for the wealthy a standard fine is no deterrant to speeding. The alternative, jail, is also a poor response as it costs society so much to incarcerate the nonviolent.
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POPSNYT ballet critic pans Mopey My friend Steve will be upset by this review. Me, I was stunned by Mopey - I thought the inner dialogue of the piece was captivating.
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POPSMay behind Prop.8 supports sister's civil union Word have power. At least Schubert is honoring his statement that it is the word marriage he does not want connected to gay relationships. He is willing to give a legal relationship that mirrors marriage, but is not marriage.
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POPSWhy Full Marriage Equality Matters In NJ the law is treating civil union/dissolution differently than marriage/divorce. If having the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness means anything, then it is time to treat these relationships equally.
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