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There are far too many political and legal pundits on TV spouting opinions they blithely disavow as soon as those opinions prove either untrendy or dead wrong. And they get away with it because most people today have the intellectual memory of teenage twits. This is especially dismaying to a commentator like me who puts his… Read more.
Today the Supreme Court will hear arguments on the constitutionality of Proposition 8, California’s ban on same-sex marriage. And tomorrow it will hear arguments on the Defense of Marriage Act (aka DOMA), a federal law that defines marriage as between one man and one woman. DOMA also holds that states that ban same-sex marriages are… Read more.
Not allowing gays to marry is an even greater violation of the fundamental civil rights all citizens should enjoy than not allowing Blacks to vote. (“Same-sex Marriages Now Legal in New York,” June 27, 2011) It is no exaggeration to lament that I have received more hate mail in response to my commentaries on same-sex… Read more.
