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Gay Marriage: Not a Very Good Idea - WILLIAM J. BENNETT

The institution of marriage is already reeling because of the effects of the sexual revolution, no-fault divorce and out-of-wedlock births. We have reaped the consequences of its devaluation. Read more...

It's About Marriage - Stanley Kurtz

Whatever side you're on, the debate over gay marriage has got to become a debate about marriage - not just a debate about gays. Read more...

The Marrying Kind - Elizabeth Kristol

When all is said and done, Andrew Sullivan's book Virtually Normal shows that gay activists are not just interested in admitting a new group of people to marriage (although that would be revolutionary enough). Read more...

Put kids' rights ahead of gay marriage - Margaret Somerville

'Questions are not neutral" is a truism in ethics. The questions we choose to ask and not to ask, frame an issue and its ensuing debate and, thereby, our responses to that issue. Read more...

Answering Advocates of Gay Marriage - Katherine Young and Paul Nathanson

Attention: The Catholic Education Resource Center notes that the persons writing this article are neither Catholic nor in full agreement with the Church's teaching on homosexuality. Nevertheless, the urgency of the issue of gay marriage at this time and the compelling arguments raised against it here, make this paper an important resource. Popular Read more...

Gay Marriage: Reimagining Church History - Robin Darling Young

Ancient in origin, same-sex unions blessed in the Church occur quietly to this day. So says John Boswell, Professor of Medieval History at Yale University and the author of his lavishly publicized book, "Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe". Read more...

Why Not Gay Marriage? An Exchange - Catholic World Report

How should Catholics argue the case against legal recognition of same-sex "marriage?" Read more...

One Man, One Woman - Mitt Romney

No matter how you feel about gay marriage, we should be able to agree that the citizens and their elected representatives must not be excluded from a decision as fundamental to society as the definition of marriage. Read more...

Opposition to Gay Marriage is Not Discrimination - Rabbi Aryeh Spero

The claim being made by advocates of gay marriage is that the ban of gay marriage is simply about prejudice. They are wrong. Read more...

The End of Marriage in Scandinavia - Stanley Kurtz

Marriage is slowly dying in Scandinavia. A majority of children in Sweden and Norway are born out of wedlock. Sixty percent of first-born children in Denmark have unmarried parents. Not coincidentally, these countries have had something close to full gay marriage for a decade or more. Read more...

A Critical Review of the GLSEN Same-Sex Marriage Curriculum - Warren Throckmorton, PhD; Gary Welton, PhD; & Mike Ingram

In 2003, the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Educators Network (GLSEN) released a curriculum designed to present same-sex marriage as a topic area in high schools. For reasons we will delineate, we found the GLSEN curriculum biased, coercive, inaccurate and misleading on many points and impractical in implementation. For these reasons, we respectfully suggest that school districts not use these materials for classroom instruction. We conclude with recommendations that may help schools handle this controversial subject in a sensitive and educationally sound manner. Read more...

Gay Marriage: Who’s Minding the Children? - Susan Brinkmann

The whole issue of gay marriage can be summed up in one word — children. Read more...

Testimony Before the Massachusetts Senate Committee Studying Gay Marriage - Dr. Jeffrey Satinover

It is most urgent that these deliberations be based not only on compassion, and justice, but on the factual truth as well. Indeed, unless resting upon truth, neither justice nor compassion can long endure against shifts in sentiment. Read more...

‘Gay marriage’ and homosexuality: Some medical comments - John Shea, M.D., John Wilson, M.D., et. al.

The media portrays the homosexual lifestyle and relationships as happy, healthy and stable. However, the homosexual lifestyle is associated with a large number of very serious physical and emotional health consequences. In addition, many 'committed' homosexual relationships only last a few years raising doubts about whether children raised in same-sex households are being raised in a protective environment. Read more...

The Parent Trap - John Leo

David and Tonia Parker of Lexington, Mass., saw a red flag when their son came home from kindergarten last January with a "diversity book bag" that included Who's in a Family, a book promoting acceptance of gay marriage. Read more...

Answering Advocates of Gay Marriage: Endnotes - Katherine Young and Paul Nathanson

Attacks on Miss California reveal intolerance of gay-rights activists - Colleen Carroll Campbell

"I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anybody out there, but that's how I was raised." Read more...

Gay Marriage, Democracy, and the Courts - Robert P. George

The culture war will never end if judges invalidate the choices of voters. Read more...

A Campaign of Intimidation - Colleen Carroll Campbell

St. Louis Catholics heading into the Cathedral Basilica for Mass last Sunday got a taste of what their counterparts in California experienced last fall: protests intended to shame churchgoers for their church's opposition to gay marriage. Read more...