Marriage & Family
The Providence Journal news departments have clearly been populated by advocates for same-sex marriage for quite some time. Staff Writer Maria Armental takes it to another level with this: Politically liberal, Rhode Island is split when it comes to gay issues: it remains the only New England state that hasn’t recognized gay marriage. (Maine voters…
Here’s an interesting result from a survey of U.S. Catholics done by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University in Washington, appearing in an article in the Rhode Island Catholic, but not apparently online anywhere: “The youngest Catholics … look a lot more like the pre-Vatican II [than the] Vatican II…
I’ve been meaning to point out a problem with Lefteris Pavlides’s objection to a recent report that Rhode Island is among the unhappiest states in the country. Declares Pavlides: Year after year the so-called “happy” states are on the top of broken homes and children in single families. For my money whole, two-parent families have…
The typical response from the opposition has been simply dismissive when I’ve argued the inappropriateness of civil rights claims for same-sex marriage. Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman, and it’s plainly true that nothing bars homosexuals from entering into such relationships except their own desire. Advocates for the redefinition of marriage…
Frankly, I believe a newspaper should have the right to take this sort of action, but I think it sufficiently outrageous that advertisers and readers should react negatively: Larry Grard, 58, of Winslow covered the November election for Maine Today, the vote in which Maine citizens rejected homosexual “marriage.” Subsequently, he received a press release…
I’ve been meaning to offer kudos for this excellent letter by David Carlin, who is, somewhat surprisingly, a sociology and philosophy professor at CCRI: The question of whether or not anti-SSM people are motivated by bigotry is an empirical question, and I submit (as would Dr. Harrop, I believe) that if their motives were empirically…
You may have heard that same-sex marriage failed to gain approval in the New York legislature. William Duncan makes an astute observation: That is why the marriage redefinition push has relied so strongly on the inevitability claim — to overwhelm legislators’ and voters’ qualms about same-sex marriage with a fear that they will be labeled…
In the cycle of my reading list, I’ve finally come back around to The Feynman Lectures on Physics and have been working through Volume II, Mainly Electromagnetism and Matter. An off-topic note for the wide margins of the page came to mind while reading the following paragraph (emphasis added): We have gotten the following interesting…
Periodically, one picks up a hint from the libertarian quarters of the broader tea party movement that they see, in it, an opportunity to assert economic conservatism apart from social conservatism. As I noted while observing the size and diversity of the crowd at the marriage-vow-renewal ceremony hosted by the National Organization for Marriage –…
Conservatives should appreciate the organic nature of public discourse. Leave it to leftists to long for a controlled setting — like a classroom or a non-profit board meeting — in which some mediator decisively declares points won or lost. In the broader society, topics move forward and swing back to the beginning as new participants…