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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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Chipping Away at the Bench

  • Subtitle: How we failed the judiciary in Iowa
  • by: Amanda Knief
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Voter anger took a new form as the results of Iowa’s November 2010 midterm elections were revealed. In a real-life twist that would make any screenwriter envious, three of the seven Iowa Supreme Court justices—who in 2009 unanimously upheld a [Read More...]

Published in the January / February 2011 Humanist
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EDITOR’S NOTE

  • by: Jennifer Bardi
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The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear held October 30 here in Washington, DC, sure was a lot of fun. The weather was gorgeous, the people polite. The signs folks made and carried were the best part—from absurd (“Has anyone [Read More...]

Published in the January / February 2011 Humanist
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Christians, Homosexuality, and the Same-Sex Marriage Question

  • by: John Zerilli
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Humanity has a curious relationship with sex. It obviously enjoys it—there are nearly seven billion people in the world and not all that output could be the fruit of duty. Yet, for a practice so widespread and frequent, its morality [Read More...]

Published in the May / June 2010 Humanist
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