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Marriage-lite.(Conservative Policy Dilemmas)
JONATHAN Rauch persuasively demonstrates, central to everything else, that those of us who are not proponents of gay marriage do not have the option of hoping the issue will go away. As Rauch puts it, we have reached a bend in the river. Major changes will happen concerning the right of gays to engage in unions similar to marriage. The question is: How can that which is inevitable be shaped for the better by those policy options that remain open to us?
On this point, I am more fatalistic than Rauch. He favors a process in which the states individually decide, one that lets us watch and learn from the different courses they take. He thinks a federal mandate would ...
- Massachusetts Vote Ties Civil Unions to Gay-Marriage Ban.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News March 30, 2004 700+ words
...yesterday to ban gay marriage and establish civil unions, approving a proposed...It would ban gay marriage but establish civil unions that would provide...Besides banning gay marriage and creating civil unions for same-sex...
- Pols urge civil unions over gay marriage.(News)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Beardsley, Elisabeth J. November 20, 2003 700+ words
...Resistance to gay marriage is growing on...pols turn to "civil unions" as an alternative...legal analysts say civil unions fall short of...eager to issue gay marriage licenses right...general position on civil unions. "It's far...A staunch gay ...
- Mass. high court rules civil unions no substitute for gay marriage.
- Newspaper article from: San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA) February 4, 2004 700+ words
...saying all along _ civil unions and domestic...like the idea of gay marriage," Bulbuk said...Mark Leno's `gay marriage' bill," said...partnerships but not gay marriage _ would veto...that he supports civil unions but disagreed...
- Mass. high court rules civil unions no substitute for gay marriage.(Knight...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Guido, Michelle February 4, 2004 700+ words
...saying all along _ civil unions and domestic...like the idea of gay marriage," Bulbuk said...Mark Leno's `gay marriage' bill," said...partnerships but not gay marriage _ would veto...that he supports civil unions but disagreed...
- Gay marriage debate includes questions of religious liberty; As Massachusetts...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor March 15, 2004 700+ words
...by banning gay marriage but establishing...same-sex civil unions with the...marriages or civil unions," he says...Proponents of gay marriage have taken...a ban on gay marriage. "A few...months ago, civil unions were quite...
- Equality practice: liberal reflections on the jurisprudence of civil...
- Magazine article from: Albany Law Review Eskridge, William N., Jr. March 22, 2001 700+ words
...governor signed legislation recognizing civil unions between same-sex couples.(1) Under...law, same-sex couples entering into civil unions will enjoy the same benefits and obligations...6) Although I think the analogy of civil unions and Baker to racial apartheid and Plessy...
- Kerry Backs Massachusetts Ban on Gay Marriage, Supports Civil Unions.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News February 26, 2004 700+ words
...Constitution to ban gay marriage and provide for civil unions for gay couples...provision for civil unions. "I think...supporters of gay marriage in Massachusetts...he opposes gay marriage as well as...supports civil unions. But he...
- NO ON GAY MARRIAGE BUT MANY SUPPORT ALLOWING CIVIL UNIONS.(FRONT)
- Newspaper article from: The Capital Times (Madison, WI) Callender, David April 12, 2004 700+ words
...banned. As for support for civil unions, Fitzgerald said, "The problem...by the degree of support for civil unions. "Once people understand...amendment is not just about gay marriage but civil unions," the easier it will be to...
