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What Next for Gay Marriage?

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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Gay Suicide and the Ethic of Love: A progressive Christian response

“If your theory about the Bible leads you to ignore or refuse to hear the suffering cries of your gay and lesbian neighbors, wouldn’t that be a reason to rethink your theory?”

Published in the January / February 2011 Humanist
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Matches Made on Earth: Why Family Values are Human Values

An anthropologist shows that marriage and family are nothing new, and neither is the wide diversity of their makeup.

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

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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