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What Next for Gay Marriage?

  • by: Kenneth W. Krause
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Voters here in Wisconsin passed a ban on same-sex marriage in the fall of 2006. The following morning, I thoughtlessly tried to console a lesbian coworker by predicting a universal right to marry within a decade. “That’s fine,” she replied [Read More...]

Published in the January / February 2011 Humanist
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No Agenda? A Humanist View of Justice Scalia

  • by: David Niose
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At first glance Joan Biskupic appears almost ideally qualified to author a biography of Antonin Scalia, the Supreme Court’s most vocal and controversial justice. An experienced reporter with legal credentials, Biskupic has covered the Supreme Court for two decades and [Read More...]

Published in the March / April 2010 Humanist
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One Nation Under the Constitution: Reason, Politics, and Morality in the New Century

  • by: Jamie Raskin
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Maryland State Senator Jamie Raskin, an attorney and professor of constitutional law who has earned national recognition as a civil rights and civil liberties advocate, was honored by the American Humanist Association on Friday, June 6, 2008, with its Distinguished [Read More...]

Published in the November / December 2008 Humanist
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