With the recent news of US District Court Judge Vaughn Walker striking down California’s Prop 8 gay marriage has come back into the national spotlight. With this I decided to research the constitutionality of such a ban to begin with. Through my research I have found I agree with Judge Walker in saying that...
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Posts Tagged ‘ Gay Marriage ’
Why a Gay Marriage Ban is Unconstitutional
Huffington Post Falsely Accuses GW Patriot of being Anti-Gay
Disgraced former GW College Republicans Membership Director Alex Fitzsimmons’ ad hominem attacks have earned him a public scolding on The Huffington Post and simultaneously resulted in the article’s author falsely asserting that The Patriot is an anti-gay publication. Bill Black, an associate professor of law and economics the University of Missouri-Kansas City penned the...
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In Defense of Discussion
The following post is by Travis Korson, President of GW Young America’s Foundation:Recently, certain members of the GW community have attempted to label GW Young America’s Foundation (GWYAF) as “bigoted” and “hateful” because of our position on traditional marriage. This position could not be further from the truth. While GWYAF opposes any redefinition of...
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YAF vs. Meghan McCain, Everyone Else
GW Young America’s Foundation will be protesting out in Kogan Plaza this Thursday at 6:30 to coincide with a speech by Meghan McCain titled “Redefining Republican.” McCain’s speech spawned a controversy when the College Republicans initially voted to cosponsor the event, but then pulled their support. McCain mistakenly tweeted that she was “disinvited” to...
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Sullivan on Gay Marriage
For those interested, I offer Andrew Sullivan’s 1989 New Republic piece, “Here Comes the Groom“–one of the original statements of the conservative case for gay marriage, written at a time when gay marriage itself was a novel idea. In the light of our recent discussion, I hope this article provides some clarity to those...
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Everyone is Wrong About Gay Marriage
Andrew Clark, if you ever have trouble publishing for the Hatchet, I am extending, unilaterally, an invitation to write for the Patriot. Why? Mr. Clark has inspired a level of vitriol normally reserved for Patriot staff after writing this piece in the Hatchet. Our own Bill Flanigen has called it “Dumb, dumb, dumb.” Travis...
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About That Whole Gay Marriage Thing
It would take too much effort to catalogue the large number of stupid errors that Andrew Clark makes in his recent Hatchet op-ed on California’s Proposition Eight. In the comments discussing the article there are a few decent posts that do that well enough (in addition to the vast majority, which do little but...
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Tradition vs. Gay Marriage
Sam Schulman wrote one of the most compelling cases against gay marriage in recent memory, in the pages of Commentary in 2003. He puts the subject in its proper context: I believe, in fact, that we are at an “Antigone moment.” Some of our fellow citizens wish to impose a radically new understanding upon...
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Gay Marriage in California
The California Supreme Court overturned the state’s ban on gay marriage today, holding that the state must treat gay and straight couples equally in this regard. This is a big deal for gay marriage advocates, obviously. Note, of course, that the Supreme Court’s decision doesn’t mandate gay marriage. It simply requires that the legal...
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Re: Of Rudy, Government Intervention, Gay Marriage, and NSA Wiretapping
While I will credit Bill’s consistency in his libertarian principles, it seems clear that he missed the point I was making. I was addressing Eric’s concerns, who had claimed that defending traditional marriage was the government overstepping it’s bounds, by appealing to his support of NSA wiretapping plans and the PATRIOT act. I did...
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