This post is the last in a series on gay marriage. Check out all posts in this series at the gay marriage index. Senior year is a time of grad school applications, final papers, and secret betting pools on what couples will split up. Senior year is a minefield for pairs, since most seniors in relationships are carefully trying to avoid too much discussion of where they’ll be next year. Friends are quick to speculate about whether he’ll regret it if he gives up that fellowship so he can … [Read more...]
Do we care too little about marriage?
August 12, 2010 By 1 Comment
This post is part of a series about gay marriage. You can browse all posts in this series at its index I’m not a quite a language prescriptivist, but I share with my conservative friends a certain propensity to get short-tempered with radical redefinitions (a word to the wise: once you hear the phrase “Words have meaning!” escape my lips, you have about 30 seconds to detonation). So perhaps the couples in the articles below should consider themselves on notice. 'Sugarbabe' favors … [Read more...]
Restricting Rhetoric, Mosques, and Gays
August 10, 2010 By 3 Comments
This post is part of a series on the politics and philosophy that underlie the fight over gay marriage. You can see all the posts in this series at the gay marriage index. As the fight over the proposed Cordoba House mosque near Ground Zero has heated up, conservative Christians across the county are using this story to gin up support to block construction of mosques across the nation, regardless of their proximity to NYC. Anti-mosque activists, struggling to explain why Islam alone should … [Read more...]
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