Important Articles Discussing Same-Sex "Marriage"
April/May – 05 Policy Review By Jennifer Roback
Morse
Marriage and the Limits of Contract
Overview- A principled libertarian argument for why preserving traditional marriage is essential for limited government.
http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/2939396.html
June/July -05 Policy Review By Lee Harris
The Future of Tradition
Overview-A gay man discusses the fragility of social customs like marriage from a historical/philosophical perspective.
http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/2932146.html
Spring 2005 Claremont Review of Books By Bradley C. S. Watson
Loves Language Lost
Overview – Concerns the corruption of language inherent in the case for same-sex “marriage”
http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.992/article_detail.asp
December 3rd, 2003 Claremont Review of Books By William J. Bennett
Homosexual Unions
Overview - A selection from The Broken Hearth,
http://www.claremont.org/publications/pubid.313/pub_detail.asp
August/September 2004 First Things by Robert H. Bork
The Necessary Amendment
Overview - Judge Bork discusses the importance an impact of same-sex “marriage”
http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=369&var_recherche=same+sex+marriage
Summer 2004 City Journal by Kay S. Hymowitz
Gay Marriage vs. American Marriage
http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_3_gay_marriage.html
Summer 2004 City Journal By David L. Tubbs & Robert P. George
Redefining Marriage Away
http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_3_redefining_marriage.html
October 2003 First Things By The Editor’s
The Marriage Amendment
http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=527&var_recherche=gay+marriage+
April 1997 First Things by David Orgon Coolidge
Same-Sex Marriage: As Hawaii Goes . . .
http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=3677&var_recherche=gay+marriage+
April 2004 The Howard Center "The Family in America" By Bryce Christensen, Ph.D.
Why Homosexuals Want What Marriage Has Now Become
http://www.profam.org/pub/fia/fia_1804.htm
April 29, 2003 A Brief Submitted to The Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights By Margaret A. Somerville
Marriage as Culture the Case Against Same-Sex Marriage
http://www.marriageinstitute.ca/images/somerville.pdf
The Catholic Education Resource Center by KATHERINE YOUNG AND PAUL NATHANSON
Answering Advocates of Gay Marriage
http://catholiceducation.org/articles/sexuality/ho0064.html
Morse
Marriage and the Limits of Contract
Overview- A principled libertarian argument for why preserving traditional marriage is essential for limited government.
http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/2939396.html
June/July -05 Policy Review By Lee Harris
The Future of Tradition
Overview-A gay man discusses the fragility of social customs like marriage from a historical/philosophical perspective.
http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/2932146.html
Spring 2005 Claremont Review of Books By Bradley C. S. Watson
Loves Language Lost
Overview – Concerns the corruption of language inherent in the case for same-sex “marriage”
http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.992/article_detail.asp
December 3rd, 2003 Claremont Review of Books By William J. Bennett
Homosexual Unions
Overview - A selection from The Broken Hearth,
http://www.claremont.org/publications/pubid.313/pub_detail.asp
August/September 2004 First Things by Robert H. Bork
The Necessary Amendment
Overview - Judge Bork discusses the importance an impact of same-sex “marriage”
http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=369&var_recherche=same+sex+marriage
Summer 2004 City Journal by Kay S. Hymowitz
Gay Marriage vs. American Marriage
http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_3_gay_marriage.html
Summer 2004 City Journal By David L. Tubbs & Robert P. George
Redefining Marriage Away
http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_3_redefining_marriage.html
October 2003 First Things By The Editor’s
The Marriage Amendment
http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=527&var_recherche=gay+marriage+
April 1997 First Things by David Orgon Coolidge
Same-Sex Marriage: As Hawaii Goes . . .
http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=3677&var_recherche=gay+marriage+
April 2004 The Howard Center "The Family in America" By Bryce Christensen, Ph.D.
Why Homosexuals Want What Marriage Has Now Become
http://www.profam.org/pub/fia/fia_1804.htm
April 29, 2003 A Brief Submitted to The Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights By Margaret A. Somerville
Marriage as Culture the Case Against Same-Sex Marriage
http://www.marriageinstitute.ca/images/somerville.pdf
The Catholic Education Resource Center by KATHERINE YOUNG AND PAUL NATHANSON
Answering Advocates of Gay Marriage
http://catholiceducation.org/articles/sexuality/ho0064.html
Same-Sex “Marriage” and the African American Family
This section is reserved for those articles and news items that reflect on the dangers adoption of gay “marriage” poses to black family
GENERAL
March 1965 United States Department of Labor
The Negro Family: The Case For National Action
Summary- The Famous report by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan argues in his 1965 report that the roots of black families’ problems lie in family breakdown. ...
http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/webid-meynihan.htm
Summer 2005 City Journal By Kay S. Hymowitz,
The Black Family: 40 Years of Lies
Summary- An excellent chronology of how family breakdown was ignored and apologized for by the countries policy elites. {companion to the Moynihan Report (above)}
http://www.city-journal.org/html/15_3_black_family.html
Winter 2006, City Journal By Kay S. Hymowitz
Marriage and Caste, America’s chief source of inequality? The Marriage Gap
http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_1_marriage_gap.html
April 12, 2010 National Review By Robert Rector
Understanding Illegitimacy
Teen pregnancy isn’t the story. The demise of marriage is.
http://article.nationalreview.com/430875/understanding-illegitimacy/robert-rector?page=1
March 12, 2007 the State News By Gary Glenn
Black community doesn't support same-sex unions
http://www.statenews.com/op_article.phtml?pk=40115
March 20, 2004 Wall Street Journal BY SHELBY STEELE
Selma to San Francisco? Same-sex marriage is not a civil rights issue
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110004846
Leonard Pitts Jr has won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2004. He is the author of Becoming Dad: Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood.
Feb. 09, 2007 Miami Herald By Leonard Pitts Jr.
Mary Cheney's baby breathes life into debate
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/columnists/leonard_pitts/16657778.htm
Feb. 16, 2007 Miami Herald By Leonard Pitts Jr.
The father counts, as more than a figure
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/columnists/leonard_pitts/16710167.htm
Thomas Sowell is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution. He writes on economics, history, social policy, ethnicity, and the history of ideas. Over the past three decades, Sowell has taught economics at various colleges and universities, including Cornell, Amherst, and the University of California at Los Angeles, as well as the history of ideas at Brandeis University.
August 15, 2006 By Thomas Sowell
Gay "marriage"
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2006/08/15/gay_marriage
March 2, 2004 By Thomas Sowell
The problem with the gay marriage issue
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell030204.asp
March 9, 2004 By Thomas Sowell
‘Gay marriage’ confusions
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell030904.asp
March 24, 2000 By Thomas Sowell
'Notion of gay marriage' is product of sloppy thinking
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell032400.asp
Star Parker is the founder and president of CURE, the Coalition on Urban Renewal & Education is syndicated columnist and a regular guest editorialist for USA Today. Her articles have appeared in major publications including the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the New York Times.She is the Author of several books-the autobiographical Pimps,Whores & Welfare Brats and Uncle Sam's Plantation
May 22, 2006 By Star Parker
Mary Cheney's new world
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2006/05/22/mary_cheneys_new_world
August 8, 2005 By Star Parker
Black pastors seek gay marriage ban amid family issues
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2005/08/08/black_pastors_seek_gay_marriage_ban_amid_family_issues
September 28, 2004 By Star Parker
An amendment to stop moral decay
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2004/09/28/an_amendment_to_stop_moral_decay
July 6, 2004 By Star Parker
Black pastors join gay-marriage debate
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2004/07/06/black_pastors_join_gay-marriage_debate
January 12, 2004By Star Parker
Gay Politics, Black Reality
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2004/01/12/gay_politics,_black_reality
GENERAL
March 1965 United States Department of Labor
The Negro Family: The Case For National Action
Summary- The Famous report by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan argues in his 1965 report that the roots of black families’ problems lie in family breakdown. ...
http://www.dol.gov/oasam/programs/history/webid-meynihan.htm
Summer 2005 City Journal By Kay S. Hymowitz,
The Black Family: 40 Years of Lies
Summary- An excellent chronology of how family breakdown was ignored and apologized for by the countries policy elites. {companion to the Moynihan Report (above)}
http://www.city-journal.org/html/15_3_black_family.html
Winter 2006, City Journal By Kay S. Hymowitz
Marriage and Caste, America’s chief source of inequality? The Marriage Gap
http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_1_marriage_gap.html
April 12, 2010 National Review By Robert Rector
Understanding Illegitimacy
Teen pregnancy isn’t the story. The demise of marriage is.
http://article.nationalreview.com/430875/understanding-illegitimacy/robert-rector?page=1
March 12, 2007 the State News By Gary Glenn
Black community doesn't support same-sex unions
http://www.statenews.com/op_article.phtml?pk=40115
March 20, 2004 Wall Street Journal BY SHELBY STEELE
Selma to San Francisco? Same-sex marriage is not a civil rights issue
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110004846
Leonard Pitts Jr has won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2004. He is the author of Becoming Dad: Black Men and the Journey to Fatherhood.
Feb. 09, 2007 Miami Herald By Leonard Pitts Jr.
Mary Cheney's baby breathes life into debate
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/columnists/leonard_pitts/16657778.htm
Feb. 16, 2007 Miami Herald By Leonard Pitts Jr.
The father counts, as more than a figure
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/columnists/leonard_pitts/16710167.htm
Thomas Sowell is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution. He writes on economics, history, social policy, ethnicity, and the history of ideas. Over the past three decades, Sowell has taught economics at various colleges and universities, including Cornell, Amherst, and the University of California at Los Angeles, as well as the history of ideas at Brandeis University.
August 15, 2006 By Thomas Sowell
Gay "marriage"
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2006/08/15/gay_marriage
March 2, 2004 By Thomas Sowell
The problem with the gay marriage issue
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell030204.asp
March 9, 2004 By Thomas Sowell
‘Gay marriage’ confusions
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell030904.asp
March 24, 2000 By Thomas Sowell
'Notion of gay marriage' is product of sloppy thinking
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell032400.asp
Star Parker is the founder and president of CURE, the Coalition on Urban Renewal & Education is syndicated columnist and a regular guest editorialist for USA Today. Her articles have appeared in major publications including the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the New York Times.She is the Author of several books-the autobiographical Pimps,Whores & Welfare Brats and Uncle Sam's Plantation
May 22, 2006 By Star Parker
Mary Cheney's new world
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2006/05/22/mary_cheneys_new_world
August 8, 2005 By Star Parker
Black pastors seek gay marriage ban amid family issues
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2005/08/08/black_pastors_seek_gay_marriage_ban_amid_family_issues
September 28, 2004 By Star Parker
An amendment to stop moral decay
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2004/09/28/an_amendment_to_stop_moral_decay
July 6, 2004 By Star Parker
Black pastors join gay-marriage debate
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2004/07/06/black_pastors_join_gay-marriage_debate
January 12, 2004By Star Parker
Gay Politics, Black Reality
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/StarParker/2004/01/12/gay_politics,_black_reality
IMPORTANT CASE LAW
FEDERAL CASE LAW
LAWRENCE v. TEXAS Decided June 26, 2003
The sodomy case that overruled Bowers v Hardwick, creating a right to consensual adult intimacy. Presaged Goodridge and quoted therein.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/02-102.ZS.html
ROMER v. EVANS Decided May 20, 1996
Overruling of Colorado constitutional amendment preventing special civil rights protections for homosexuals (excellent and informative dissent)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/94-1039.ZS.html
STATE CASE LAW
NATIONAL PRIDE AT WORK v. STATE OF MICHIGAN Decided February 1, 2007
Appeals court Ruling upholding State Marriage Amendment and preventing Universities and municipalities from granting marriage like benefits to same-sex partners.
http://courtofappeals.mijud.net/documents/OPINIONS/FINAL/COA/20070201_C265870_104_265870.OPN.PDF
GOODRIDGE v. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH (2003)
The notorious Massachusetts ruling in favor of re-defining marriage. Excellent dissents from three liberal Judges.
http://www.mass.gov/courts/courtsandjudges/courts/supremejudicialcourt/goodridge.html
(or)
http://www.masslaw.com/signup/opinion.cfm?page=ma/opin/sup/1017603.htm
HERNADEZ v. NEWYORK (2006)
Level headed State Supreme Court Ruling claiming no authority to re-define marriage.
http://marriagelaw.cua.edu/NY%20decision.pdf
(or)
http://lmaw.org/freedom/docs/NY-Hernandez%20v%20Robles2.pdf
ANDERSEN v. KING COUNTY, Decided August 4, 2004
By far the strongest State court decision against a “right” to same-sex “marriage” Excellent concurrences by Justice Johnson & Sanders (a must read!)
http://marriagelaw.cua.edu/Law/King%20Superior%20Court%20Opinion.pdf
More Complete Case Law Sites
The Marriage & Law Projects Case Files
http://marriagelaw.cua.edu/law/courts.cfm
Freedom to “Marry” – Reading Room
http://lmaw.org/freedom/tr_docs.htm
LAWRENCE v. TEXAS Decided June 26, 2003
The sodomy case that overruled Bowers v Hardwick, creating a right to consensual adult intimacy. Presaged Goodridge and quoted therein.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/02-102.ZS.html
ROMER v. EVANS Decided May 20, 1996
Overruling of Colorado constitutional amendment preventing special civil rights protections for homosexuals (excellent and informative dissent)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/94-1039.ZS.html
STATE CASE LAW
NATIONAL PRIDE AT WORK v. STATE OF MICHIGAN Decided February 1, 2007
Appeals court Ruling upholding State Marriage Amendment and preventing Universities and municipalities from granting marriage like benefits to same-sex partners.
http://courtofappeals.mijud.net/documents/OPINIONS/FINAL/COA/20070201_C265870_104_265870.OPN.PDF
GOODRIDGE v. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH (2003)
The notorious Massachusetts ruling in favor of re-defining marriage. Excellent dissents from three liberal Judges.
http://www.mass.gov/courts/courtsandjudges/courts/supremejudicialcourt/goodridge.html
(or)
http://www.masslaw.com/signup/opinion.cfm?page=ma/opin/sup/1017603.htm
HERNADEZ v. NEWYORK (2006)
Level headed State Supreme Court Ruling claiming no authority to re-define marriage.
http://marriagelaw.cua.edu/NY%20decision.pdf
(or)
http://lmaw.org/freedom/docs/NY-Hernandez%20v%20Robles2.pdf
ANDERSEN v. KING COUNTY, Decided August 4, 2004
By far the strongest State court decision against a “right” to same-sex “marriage” Excellent concurrences by Justice Johnson & Sanders (a must read!)
http://marriagelaw.cua.edu/Law/King%20Superior%20Court%20Opinion.pdf
More Complete Case Law Sites
The Marriage & Law Projects Case Files
http://marriagelaw.cua.edu/law/courts.cfm
Freedom to “Marry” – Reading Room
http://lmaw.org/freedom/tr_docs.htm
Stanley Kurtz Work
Stanley Kurtz is an adjunct fellow of Hudson Institute and a fellow at the Hoover Institution with a special interest in America's "culture war." In addition to his regular contributions to National Review Online, Kurtz's writings on the family, feminism, homosexuality, affirmative action, and campus "political correctness" have appeared in Policy Review, The Wall Street Journal, and Commentary.
Before turning his attention to America's cultural battles, Kurtz was a social scientist specializing in family life and religion. He received his Ph.D. in social anthropology from Harvard University and later taught at Harvard, winning several teaching awards for his work in a "Great Books" program. Kurtz was also Dewey Prize Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Chicago.
#1. THE SCANDINAVIAN DEBATE
02/02/2004 Weekly Standard
The End of Marriage in Scandinavia: The "conservative case" for same-sex marriage collapses.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/660zypwj.asp
05/31/2004 Weekly Standard
Going Dutch? : Lessons of the same-sex marriage debate in the Netherlands.
From the May 31, 2004 issue
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/126qodro.asp
February 03, 2006 NRO Articles:
Dissolving Marriage
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MWI3ZWMyMGRhN2Q3MjA2Y2U4YmU1MDI4YzM3OGUyODM=
May 17, 02 NRO Articles
Reassurances Against Realityhttp://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZDI3OWQ4Y2Y1YjA5YjlhNWRmNDAyZDA5YmUwMmFiNjI=
06/02/06 NRO Article
Smoking Gun - The Netherlands shows the effect of same-sex marriage
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDFhMjk0YjI4NzgyZGM4NjMxZmY4NTQwZWNjYzkzYjg=
02/23/06 NRO Article
Standing Out - The sharp increase of non-marital births in the Netherlands needs some explaining.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ODcyNzgxNGNkMzEwMDZhNmQzYzhjZDU4MDcwOWRmODA=
10/30/06 NRO Article
Avoidance Strategy - What about marriage in the Netherlands?
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDEwOGYwOTY4NTFlZmU4ZTQ3ZGQyYzk2NWE2Yjc1NmM=
Friday, May 13, 2005 NRO Articles
Courting Fma
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NGRhNjk2ZGNhYjQ2MzE3YTNmYzVmZDQ0YWEzMTA4MTM=
Support of the Scandinavian Thesis
Open Letter To Dutch Newspapers By a group of Dutch Scholars confirming the thesis that the Netherlands has experienced greater family breakdown since the introduction of same-sex unions.
Original in Dutch {8/7/04 THE HAGUE--In an open letter to this newspaper, five academics raise the alarm over the deteriorating state of marriage in The Netherlands.}
http://www.refdag.nl/artikel/105038/
English Translations
http://www.marriagedebate.com/2004/07/dutch-scholars-on-ssm-new-statement.htm
Original in Dutch -Interview with two signers
http://www.refdag.nl/artikel/105077/
English Translations- Interview with two signers
http://www.marriagedebate.com/2004/07/dutch-scholars-on-ssm-interview-with.htm
June 29, 2004 National Review Online By Joshua Livestro
Dutch Decline Losing interest in matrimony.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NzdhNDc3MzczNzVkNTM4NjFkMWNlODgzZjE4YWEwYzI=
Febuary/March 2005 Policy Review
Demographics and the Culture War
The implications of population decline http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/3431156.html
#2. MARRIAGE RADICALS – The full extent of the worldview behind the same-sex “marriage” agenda and the power it holds.
10/31/06 NRO Article
The Confession - Have same-sex-marriage advocates said too much?
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZDY4Y2U4MGJkODRlZTFhNjk2MjZhZTZlMGMyNmUzZWE=
11/01/06 NRO ARTICLE
The Confession II - “Conservative” proponents of same-sex marriage are about to overtaken by radicals.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MmRhNTdlNDNkOGQxOGFhNDE3ODdlOGI4ODU5ZDljOGE=
05/25/06 NRO Article
Zombie Killers- AKA “Queering the normal” http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MTU4NDEzNTY5ODNmOWU4M2Y1MGIwMTcyODdjZGQxOTk=
02/22/06 NRO Article
Fanatical Swedish Feminists -
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MWI3ZWMyMGRhN2Q3MjA2Y2U4YmU1MDI4YzM3OGUyODM=
#3. POLYAMORY
08/04/2003 Weekly Standard
Beyond Gay Marriage: The road to polyamory.
From the August 4 / August 11, 2003 issue
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/660zypwj.asp
December 23, 2005 NRO Article
Triple-Dutch Wrong
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=M2FjZjBkMTM2YTk4ZDhlZjJhNWIzNzE5YThhNGZkMDc=
03/13/06 NRO Article
Big Love, From The Set
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZWFhNmEwNGNiYTdmMWU2M2FjZTQ0ODNiZDdhMzg4OWU=
06/05/2006 Weekly Standard
Polygamy Versus Democracy You can't have both.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/266jhfgd.asp
I. Media Examples
September 10, 2007 New York Times By KIRK JOHNSON
In Polygamy Country, Old Divisions Are Fading http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/10/us/10jeffs.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
18th April 2007 U.K Daily Mail By Staff
Polygamous husbands can claim cash for their harems
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=449221&in_page_id=1770&ito=1490
March 20,2006 Newsweek Magazine By Elise Soukup
Polygamists, Unite! They used to live quietly, but now they're making noise. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11786790/site/newsweek/
Before turning his attention to America's cultural battles, Kurtz was a social scientist specializing in family life and religion. He received his Ph.D. in social anthropology from Harvard University and later taught at Harvard, winning several teaching awards for his work in a "Great Books" program. Kurtz was also Dewey Prize Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Chicago.
#1. THE SCANDINAVIAN DEBATE
02/02/2004 Weekly Standard
The End of Marriage in Scandinavia: The "conservative case" for same-sex marriage collapses.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/660zypwj.asp
05/31/2004 Weekly Standard
Going Dutch? : Lessons of the same-sex marriage debate in the Netherlands.
From the May 31, 2004 issue
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/126qodro.asp
February 03, 2006 NRO Articles:
Dissolving Marriage
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MWI3ZWMyMGRhN2Q3MjA2Y2U4YmU1MDI4YzM3OGUyODM=
May 17, 02 NRO Articles
Reassurances Against Realityhttp://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZDI3OWQ4Y2Y1YjA5YjlhNWRmNDAyZDA5YmUwMmFiNjI=
06/02/06 NRO Article
Smoking Gun - The Netherlands shows the effect of same-sex marriage
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDFhMjk0YjI4NzgyZGM4NjMxZmY4NTQwZWNjYzkzYjg=
02/23/06 NRO Article
Standing Out - The sharp increase of non-marital births in the Netherlands needs some explaining.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ODcyNzgxNGNkMzEwMDZhNmQzYzhjZDU4MDcwOWRmODA=
10/30/06 NRO Article
Avoidance Strategy - What about marriage in the Netherlands?
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDEwOGYwOTY4NTFlZmU4ZTQ3ZGQyYzk2NWE2Yjc1NmM=
Friday, May 13, 2005 NRO Articles
Courting Fma
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NGRhNjk2ZGNhYjQ2MzE3YTNmYzVmZDQ0YWEzMTA4MTM=
Support of the Scandinavian Thesis
Open Letter To Dutch Newspapers By a group of Dutch Scholars confirming the thesis that the Netherlands has experienced greater family breakdown since the introduction of same-sex unions.
Original in Dutch {8/7/04 THE HAGUE--In an open letter to this newspaper, five academics raise the alarm over the deteriorating state of marriage in The Netherlands.}
http://www.refdag.nl/artikel/105038/
English Translations
http://www.marriagedebate.com/2004/07/dutch-scholars-on-ssm-new-statement.htm
Original in Dutch -Interview with two signers
http://www.refdag.nl/artikel/105077/
English Translations- Interview with two signers
http://www.marriagedebate.com/2004/07/dutch-scholars-on-ssm-interview-with.htm
June 29, 2004 National Review Online By Joshua Livestro
Dutch Decline Losing interest in matrimony.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NzdhNDc3MzczNzVkNTM4NjFkMWNlODgzZjE4YWEwYzI=
Febuary/March 2005 Policy Review
Demographics and the Culture War
The implications of population decline http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/3431156.html
#2. MARRIAGE RADICALS – The full extent of the worldview behind the same-sex “marriage” agenda and the power it holds.
10/31/06 NRO Article
The Confession - Have same-sex-marriage advocates said too much?
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZDY4Y2U4MGJkODRlZTFhNjk2MjZhZTZlMGMyNmUzZWE=
11/01/06 NRO ARTICLE
The Confession II - “Conservative” proponents of same-sex marriage are about to overtaken by radicals.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MmRhNTdlNDNkOGQxOGFhNDE3ODdlOGI4ODU5ZDljOGE=
05/25/06 NRO Article
Zombie Killers- AKA “Queering the normal” http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MTU4NDEzNTY5ODNmOWU4M2Y1MGIwMTcyODdjZGQxOTk=
02/22/06 NRO Article
Fanatical Swedish Feminists -
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MWI3ZWMyMGRhN2Q3MjA2Y2U4YmU1MDI4YzM3OGUyODM=
#3. POLYAMORY
08/04/2003 Weekly Standard
Beyond Gay Marriage: The road to polyamory.
From the August 4 / August 11, 2003 issue
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/660zypwj.asp
December 23, 2005 NRO Article
Triple-Dutch Wrong
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=M2FjZjBkMTM2YTk4ZDhlZjJhNWIzNzE5YThhNGZkMDc=
03/13/06 NRO Article
Big Love, From The Set
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZWFhNmEwNGNiYTdmMWU2M2FjZTQ0ODNiZDdhMzg4OWU=
06/05/2006 Weekly Standard
Polygamy Versus Democracy You can't have both.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/266jhfgd.asp
I. Media Examples
September 10, 2007 New York Times By KIRK JOHNSON
In Polygamy Country, Old Divisions Are Fading http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/10/us/10jeffs.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
18th April 2007 U.K Daily Mail By Staff
Polygamous husbands can claim cash for their harems
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=449221&in_page_id=1770&ito=1490
March 20,2006 Newsweek Magazine By Elise Soukup
Polygamists, Unite! They used to live quietly, but now they're making noise. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11786790/site/newsweek/
Threats Same--sex "marriage" poses to Libety.
This Section is reserved for those links that deal with same-sex “marriage” impositions on liberty issues
Religious Liberty threats
#1. British Adoption Conflict Articles
22 March 2007 The U.K. Independent By Colin Brown
Labor wins gay rights vote in Lords
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2381113.ece
February 8, 2007, First Things, By Ryan T. Anderson
Moralism and UK Adoption Laws
http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=626
Sun 28 Jan 2007 Scotland on Sunday By EDDIE BARNES & BRIAN BRADY
Church: we'll make gay rights martyrs
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=145842007
31/01/07 UK Telegraph By Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor
Regulation must not trump conscience
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;jsessionid=IDF4MB1QSSLMBQFIQMFCFF4AVCBQYIV0?xml=/opinion/2007/01/31/do3102.xml#comments
1/30/2007 U.K Telegraph by George Jones, Political Editor
Church loses opt-out fight over gay adoptions
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=AMIDOOJLRPHWVQFIQMGSFFOAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2007/01/30/ngay30.xml
1/30/07 Guardian Unlimited by Patrick Wintour, Will Woodward and Stephen Bates
Catholic agencies given deadline to comply on same-sex adoptions
http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,2001834,00.html
March 09, 2007, NRO By David Frum
Can Religious Freedom Survive Gay Liberation? – An overview of the cost to human liberty as demonstrated through the British adoption controversy
http://frum.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NGY0ZmRkNmU1YTY2YWM5NTdmZjRjM2U0MzRhOTg5MGI=
#2. Boston Adoption Controversy
March 11, 2006, Boston Globe By Patricia Wen
Catholic Charities stuns state, ends adoptions-Gay issue stirred move by agency
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/03/11/catholic_charities_stuns_state_ends_adoptions/
#3. General Aricles On the threat to Religious Liberty
05/15/2006, The Weekly Standard by Maggie Gallagher
Banned in Boston - The coming conflict between same-sex marriage and religious liberty.
http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/191kgwgh.asp
April 2004 First Things by Raymond J. de Souza
“Thinly Disguised Totalitarianism”
http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=322&var_recherche=same+sex+marriage
January 25, 2005 CBC News By Staff
B.C. lesbians fight to hold wedding reception in Catholic hall
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2005/01/24/lesbian-wedding-050124.html
Nov. 30 2005, CTV.ca By News Staff
B.C. tribunal awards lesbian couple damages
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20051129/tribunal_lesbiancouple_051129/20051129?hub=Canada
April 20, 2007 E-Media News PARIS, TX (PRWEB)
Church To Sanction Same-Sex Marriages- First Nation Church Removes Ban On Gay, Lesbian Unions
http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2007/4/emw520132.htm
#4. Free Speech Threats
May 16, 2007 Chicago Tribune By Staff
Teens face hate-crime charge for anti-gay flier
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/content/education/chi-hatecrime_16may16,0,5098417.story?coll=chi-education-hed
April 29, 2007, Huston Chronicle By Associated Press
Archbishop opposed to same-sex unions is threatened
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/world/4760001.html
March 5, 2007 San Francisco Chronicle by Bob Egelko
Appeals court sides with Oakland on removal of 'natural family' sign
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/03/05/BAGASOFO1B5.DTL
February 01, 2007 Canadian Press By Jennifer Graham
Same-sex couple alleges discrimination by Saskatchewan marriage commissioner
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=1667e407-a1c2-4ba9-be19-db15918e5018&k=66291
October 12, 2004, CNN WORLD NEWS, By Staff
Berlusconi blasts EU rejection
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/10/12/italy.eu/index.html
January 29, 2005 Washington Post Foreign Service By Keith B. Richburg and Alan Cooperman
Swede's Sermon on Gays: Bigotry or Free Speech? -Pastor Challenges Hate-Law Restrictions
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45538-2005Jan28.html
January 25, 2007 365Gay.com By Newscenter Staff
French Politician Fined Under Gay Hate Law
http://www.365gay.com/Newscon07/01/012507france.htm
Winter 2007, City Journal By John Leo
Free Inquiry? Not on Campus - And the college speech police threaten the liberty of us all.
http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_1_free_speech.html
May & June 1998, Policy Review
Think welfare policy undermined the family? Try reading a few college textbooks
http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/3566207.html
#5. SCHOOLS
I. The David Parker Case - Massachusetts law suit centered on the ability of a parent to be not have his child exposed to same-sex "marriage" propaganda in public schools setting.
April 29, 2005 Boston Globe By Maria Cramer and Ralph Ranalli,
Arrested father had point to make - Disputed school's lesson on diversity
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/04/29/arrested_father_had_point_to_make/
February 24, 2007 Boston Globe By Jonathan Saltzman
Same-sex teaching upheld
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/02/24/same_sex_teaching_upheld/
This Site has full details of this case.
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/parker/index.html
II. Others
31 May 2007 U.K Daily Mail By LAURA CLARK
Don't teach that marriage is best say academics
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=458761&in_page_id=1770
May 13, 2007 Hartford Courant By Associated Press
Suit: Sub Showed 'Brokeback' in Class
http://www.courant.com/news/custom/topnews/sns-ap-brokeback-lawsuit,0,6787544.story
OR
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,271935,00.html
March 7, 2007, Chicago Tribune By Lisa Black
School accused of promoting homosexuality
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-070307gay-school,1,5590132.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
Or
March 08, 2007 Fox News
Freshman 'Orientation' on Gay Experiences Angers Parents in Illinois High School
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,257748,00.html
2nd April 2007 UK Daily Mail By LIZ HULL
Police send four police officers to tackle boy, 11, who called schoolmate 'gay'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=445996&in_page_id=1770
February 5, 2007 Townhall By Jay Sekulow
You’re Opposed to Same-Sex Marriage--You Must be a Member of the Ku Klux Klan
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JaySekulow/2007/02/05/you%e2%80%99re_opposed_to_same-sex_marriage--you_must_be_a_member_of_the_ku_klux_klan
March 15, 2007, UK Telegraph By A.P. Reporter
Same-sex fairy tales
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21386285-5006007,00.html
#6. PRESS BIAS
July 25, 2004 NYT By DANIEL OKRENT
THE PUBLIC EDITOR; Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D01E7D8173DF936A15754C0A9629C8B63
February 11, 2007, NYT By BYRON CALAME
THE PUBLIC EDITOR Can a 15-Year-Old Be a ‘Woman Without a Spouse’?
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/11/opinion/11pubed.html?ex=1328850000&en=157a06ff2baed00d&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
MISSILANIOUS
March 9, 2004 New York Times By Don S. Browning-Contributor
The Liberal Case Against Same-Sex Marriage
http://www.law.emory.edu/cms/site/fileadmin/templates/CSLR_Media/PDFs/Don_browning.Same_Sex.pdf
December 02, 2006 The London Times
Gay pacts go straight as lovers get cold feet over the ties of marriage
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article657380.ece
March 25 2007, Associated Press By GREG BLUESTEIN
Lesbian asks court to ban gay adoptions
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070325/ap_on_re_us/gay_traitor_2
Aug 15, 2006 Weekly Standard By Ryan T. Anderson
"Beyond Gay Marriage"; The stated goal of these prominent gay activists is no longer merely the freedom to live as they want http://www.keepmedia.com/pubs/TheWeeklyStandard/2006/08/15/1823653
I. A United Kingdom legal case brought by two sisters concerning the denial of benefits to same-sex households merely on the basis of blood relations.
02/09/2006 U.K. Telegraph By Joshua Rozenberg, Legal Editor
Sisters go to court over 'gay bias' in tax laws
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/02/nherit02.xml
13/09/2006 U.K. Telegraph By Joshua Rozenberg, Legal Editor
Treat us like lesbians, say sisters in tax fight
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/13/nsisters13.xml
October 11, 2006, First Things By Ryan T. Anderson
The Family vs. the State – Brief sketch of the significance of the sisters (above) case.
http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=494
Religious Liberty threats
#1. British Adoption Conflict Articles
22 March 2007 The U.K. Independent By Colin Brown
Labor wins gay rights vote in Lords
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2381113.ece
February 8, 2007, First Things, By Ryan T. Anderson
Moralism and UK Adoption Laws
http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=626
Sun 28 Jan 2007 Scotland on Sunday By EDDIE BARNES & BRIAN BRADY
Church: we'll make gay rights martyrs
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=145842007
31/01/07 UK Telegraph By Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor
Regulation must not trump conscience
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;jsessionid=IDF4MB1QSSLMBQFIQMFCFF4AVCBQYIV0?xml=/opinion/2007/01/31/do3102.xml#comments
1/30/2007 U.K Telegraph by George Jones, Political Editor
Church loses opt-out fight over gay adoptions
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=AMIDOOJLRPHWVQFIQMGSFFOAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2007/01/30/ngay30.xml
1/30/07 Guardian Unlimited by Patrick Wintour, Will Woodward and Stephen Bates
Catholic agencies given deadline to comply on same-sex adoptions
http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,2001834,00.html
March 09, 2007, NRO By David Frum
Can Religious Freedom Survive Gay Liberation? – An overview of the cost to human liberty as demonstrated through the British adoption controversy
http://frum.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NGY0ZmRkNmU1YTY2YWM5NTdmZjRjM2U0MzRhOTg5MGI=
#2. Boston Adoption Controversy
March 11, 2006, Boston Globe By Patricia Wen
Catholic Charities stuns state, ends adoptions-Gay issue stirred move by agency
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/03/11/catholic_charities_stuns_state_ends_adoptions/
#3. General Aricles On the threat to Religious Liberty
05/15/2006, The Weekly Standard by Maggie Gallagher
Banned in Boston - The coming conflict between same-sex marriage and religious liberty.
http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/191kgwgh.asp
April 2004 First Things by Raymond J. de Souza
“Thinly Disguised Totalitarianism”
http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=322&var_recherche=same+sex+marriage
January 25, 2005 CBC News By Staff
B.C. lesbians fight to hold wedding reception in Catholic hall
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2005/01/24/lesbian-wedding-050124.html
Nov. 30 2005, CTV.ca By News Staff
B.C. tribunal awards lesbian couple damages
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20051129/tribunal_lesbiancouple_051129/20051129?hub=Canada
April 20, 2007 E-Media News PARIS, TX (PRWEB)
Church To Sanction Same-Sex Marriages- First Nation Church Removes Ban On Gay, Lesbian Unions
http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2007/4/emw520132.htm
#4. Free Speech Threats
May 16, 2007 Chicago Tribune By Staff
Teens face hate-crime charge for anti-gay flier
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/content/education/chi-hatecrime_16may16,0,5098417.story?coll=chi-education-hed
April 29, 2007, Huston Chronicle By Associated Press
Archbishop opposed to same-sex unions is threatened
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/world/4760001.html
March 5, 2007 San Francisco Chronicle by Bob Egelko
Appeals court sides with Oakland on removal of 'natural family' sign
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/03/05/BAGASOFO1B5.DTL
February 01, 2007 Canadian Press By Jennifer Graham
Same-sex couple alleges discrimination by Saskatchewan marriage commissioner
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=1667e407-a1c2-4ba9-be19-db15918e5018&k=66291
October 12, 2004, CNN WORLD NEWS, By Staff
Berlusconi blasts EU rejection
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/10/12/italy.eu/index.html
January 29, 2005 Washington Post Foreign Service By Keith B. Richburg and Alan Cooperman
Swede's Sermon on Gays: Bigotry or Free Speech? -Pastor Challenges Hate-Law Restrictions
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45538-2005Jan28.html
January 25, 2007 365Gay.com By Newscenter Staff
French Politician Fined Under Gay Hate Law
http://www.365gay.com/Newscon07/01/012507france.htm
Winter 2007, City Journal By John Leo
Free Inquiry? Not on Campus - And the college speech police threaten the liberty of us all.
http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_1_free_speech.html
May & June 1998, Policy Review
Think welfare policy undermined the family? Try reading a few college textbooks
http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/3566207.html
#5. SCHOOLS
I. The David Parker Case - Massachusetts law suit centered on the ability of a parent to be not have his child exposed to same-sex "marriage" propaganda in public schools setting.
April 29, 2005 Boston Globe By Maria Cramer and Ralph Ranalli,
Arrested father had point to make - Disputed school's lesson on diversity
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/04/29/arrested_father_had_point_to_make/
February 24, 2007 Boston Globe By Jonathan Saltzman
Same-sex teaching upheld
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/02/24/same_sex_teaching_upheld/
This Site has full details of this case.
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/parker/index.html
II. Others
31 May 2007 U.K Daily Mail By LAURA CLARK
Don't teach that marriage is best say academics
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=458761&in_page_id=1770
May 13, 2007 Hartford Courant By Associated Press
Suit: Sub Showed 'Brokeback' in Class
http://www.courant.com/news/custom/topnews/sns-ap-brokeback-lawsuit,0,6787544.story
OR
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,271935,00.html
March 7, 2007, Chicago Tribune By Lisa Black
School accused of promoting homosexuality
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-070307gay-school,1,5590132.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
Or
March 08, 2007 Fox News
Freshman 'Orientation' on Gay Experiences Angers Parents in Illinois High School
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,257748,00.html
2nd April 2007 UK Daily Mail By LIZ HULL
Police send four police officers to tackle boy, 11, who called schoolmate 'gay'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=445996&in_page_id=1770
February 5, 2007 Townhall By Jay Sekulow
You’re Opposed to Same-Sex Marriage--You Must be a Member of the Ku Klux Klan
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JaySekulow/2007/02/05/you%e2%80%99re_opposed_to_same-sex_marriage--you_must_be_a_member_of_the_ku_klux_klan
March 15, 2007, UK Telegraph By A.P. Reporter
Same-sex fairy tales
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21386285-5006007,00.html
#6. PRESS BIAS
July 25, 2004 NYT By DANIEL OKRENT
THE PUBLIC EDITOR; Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper? http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D01E7D8173DF936A15754C0A9629C8B63
February 11, 2007, NYT By BYRON CALAME
THE PUBLIC EDITOR Can a 15-Year-Old Be a ‘Woman Without a Spouse’?
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/11/opinion/11pubed.html?ex=1328850000&en=157a06ff2baed00d&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
MISSILANIOUS
March 9, 2004 New York Times By Don S. Browning-Contributor
The Liberal Case Against Same-Sex Marriage
http://www.law.emory.edu/cms/site/fileadmin/templates/CSLR_Media/PDFs/Don_browning.Same_Sex.pdf
December 02, 2006 The London Times
Gay pacts go straight as lovers get cold feet over the ties of marriage
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article657380.ece
March 25 2007, Associated Press By GREG BLUESTEIN
Lesbian asks court to ban gay adoptions
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070325/ap_on_re_us/gay_traitor_2
Aug 15, 2006 Weekly Standard By Ryan T. Anderson
"Beyond Gay Marriage"; The stated goal of these prominent gay activists is no longer merely the freedom to live as they want http://www.keepmedia.com/pubs/TheWeeklyStandard/2006/08/15/1823653
I. A United Kingdom legal case brought by two sisters concerning the denial of benefits to same-sex households merely on the basis of blood relations.
02/09/2006 U.K. Telegraph By Joshua Rozenberg, Legal Editor
Sisters go to court over 'gay bias' in tax laws
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/02/nherit02.xml
13/09/2006 U.K. Telegraph By Joshua Rozenberg, Legal Editor
Treat us like lesbians, say sisters in tax fight
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/13/nsisters13.xml
October 11, 2006, First Things By Ryan T. Anderson
The Family vs. the State – Brief sketch of the significance of the sisters (above) case.
http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=494
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