Wall Street Journal | July 27, 2001 THE other day I attended what seemed an unusually disingenuous press conference, even by Washington’s standards. The event was the unveiling, by a coalition of church and community groups called the Alliance for Marriage, of a proposed 28th Amendment to the Constitution. The “Federal Marriage Amendment” was soon…
The New Republic | May 6, 1996 WHATEVER else marriage may or may not be, it is certainly falling apart. Half of today’s marriages end in divorce, and, far more costly, many never begin–leaving mothers poor, children fatherless and neighborhoods chaotic. With timing worthy of Neville Chamberlain, homosexuals have chosen this moment to press for…
There is no compelling reason to exclude homosexual couples from marriage, and several compelling reasons to include them The Economist | January 4, 1996 MARRIAGE may be for the ages—but it changes by the year. And never, perhaps, has it changed as quickly as since the 1960s. In western law, wives are now equal rather than subordinate…