Ireland!, of all places. 62 percent to 38, and in 42 of 43 districts.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/24/world/europe/ireland-gay-marriage-referendum.html
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Judy Baer
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On May 23, 2015, at 5:02 PM, Marty Lederman
lederman.ma...@gmail.commailto:lederman.ma...@gmail.com wrote:
Ireland!, of all places. 62 percent to 38, and in 42 of 43 districts.
I'll rest easier when out-of-wedlock childbearing is widely condemned
worldwide as harmful to kids; when people acknowledge there are good
arguments on both side of this difficult issue, and when the re-writing of
a multitude of family laws is seen for the broad consequences that they
I understand many disagree with my concern about out-of-wedlock births.
This apathy over my concern worries me, because without an acknowledgement
of the importance of opposite-sex marriage to our society, the concerns
shared by many who oppose same-sex marriage will be incorrectly seen as
Hey, you know what, Michael? Not everyone thinks that having only one parent is
worse than not being born at all.
JB
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On May 23, 2015, at 7:18 PM, Michael Worley
mwor...@byulaw.netmailto:mwor...@byulaw.net wrote:
I understand many disagree with my concern about
I never ever said that. To think it is an important role of government to
encourage two-person parenting is not to assert one-person parenting is worse
than not being born at all.
My comments were misconstrued. They were meant to assert marriage's role in
helping kids of opposite-sex couples
Will the Supreme Court follow the election returns? A bit more seriously, this
is a tribute to the beneficent possibilities inherent in direct democracy.
(Prop. 8 is not so
Inspiring, but can there be any real doubt that there would be a different
result today? Or, for that matter, that a
Dear Michael:
when children have children it is a bad thing. That is true whether they are
married or merely very young and forced into marriages.
But out-of-Wedlock births is a very broad category.
When my adult gay friends had children, twelve years ago, they could not be
legally married
Professor Finkleman:
We disagree on many fundamental levels, and this is an emotional thing for
us both.
You raise complex and interesting questions, but I have increasingly found
it is hard to change minds on this issue, and lengthy debates only tend to
polarize because of different assumptions
Dear Mr. Worley:
Your claim that pastors can do what they want is a non-starter. We all know
they can do that now, but it is the law that creates and protects the
relationships of marriage in a complex society that is important.
If the law does not validate the marriage then one spouse
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