Topic: gay marriage

Boy, I could only cautiously optimistically hope so! I think after what we experienced in 2004 (those of us who were among the 6000 plus individuals who obtained a same-sex marriages in Oregon) many of us have watched the unfolding California gay marriage victory with a sense of detachment... maybe even skepticism? That may be due to what Measure 36 took from us roughly one year after...

It may not be as real-time as a blog, but the conversation about gay marriage taking place in the Oregonian's letters-to-the-editor section is fascinating. First, the challenge by gay-marriage supporter Burl Ross of Lake Oswego, on June 20: ...Gay marriage "will do great harm" to the common welfare. Really? Name one. Seriously. I have $100 for the first person who can document "harm" to the...

One of our long-standing political rules of thumb: Major court rulings that address emotional topics tend to energize the side that lost. Think abortion. Think busing. Think gay marriage (2004, though much of the emotion so prominent then seems bleached out now). And now, as of today, think gun control. Well we remember an evening some years back at a political event in the Idaho Panhandle. After...

It seems that Gordon Smith's bizarre comments about polygamy and gay marriage just aren't going to go away -- and not just because he made them at a gay-rights forum at the liberal Center for American Progress in Washington DC. You know that his comments are hurting him with conservative Oregonians when RNC fax-machine David Reinhard pops up with a defense of ol' Gordon: Smith, as is his wont...

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Today's thought on gay marriage is brought to you by "the Crallspace": "Don't these militant anti-gay people and groups realize that by prohibiting gay marriage, they are creating sin? If the gay couple can't marry, then they are fornicating outside of marriage. They're gonna have sex anyway; may as well be within the sanctity of marriage." glbtq-christians gay-marriage...

Don't these militant anti-gay people and groups realize that by prohibiting gay marriage, they are creating sin? If the gay couple can't marry, then they are fornicating outside of marriage. They're gonna have sex anyway; may as well be within the sanctity of marriage. Free Hit...

A few days ago I posted on an unusual video clip I came across with Senator Gordon Smith making comments regarding gay marriage rights and possible similarities faced by Mormon ancestors. I didn't make much sense of it then (although I did receive some helpful comments), but now apparently enough people have seen or heard of this that: "Oregon Sen. Gordon Smith is apologizing for creating...