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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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The National Day of Prayer Decision: A Victory to Savor

  • by: Annie Laurie Gaylor
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“He described himself in the media as ‘a man of the Lord.’ He acted persecuted. He attacked us, and I wanted to sue him very badly.”

Published in the November / December 2010 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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