MUST reading...

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Registered: 12-16-2003
MUST reading...
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Thu, 01-06-2005 - 1:43pm


A leading Washington journalist argues that gay marriage is the best way to preserve and protect society's most essential institution

Two people meet and fall in love. They get married, they become upstanding members of their community, they care for each other when one falls ill, they grow old together. What's wrong with this picture? Nothing, says Jonathan Rauch, and that's the point. If the two people are of the same sex, why should this chain of events be any less desirable? Marriage is more than a bond between individuals; it also links them to the community at large. Excluding some people from the prospect of marriage not only is harmful to them, but is also corrosive of the institution itself.

The controversy over gay marriage has reached a critical point in American political life as liberals and conservatives have begun to mobilize around this issue, pro and con. But no one has come forward with a compelling, comprehensive, and readable case for gay marriage-until now.

Jonathan Rauch, one of our most original and incisive social commentators, has written a clear and honest manifesto explaining why gay marriage is important-even crucial-to the health of marriage in America today. Rauch grounds his argument in commonsense, mainstream values and confronting the social conservatives on their own turf. Gay marriage, he shows, is a "win-win-win" for strengthening the bonds that tie us together and for remaining true to our national heritage of fairness and humaneness toward all.

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Registered: 03-25-2003
Thu, 01-06-2005 - 2:06pm
I think we should just get rid of marriage, for both gay and str8! *GRIN*
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Thu, 01-06-2005 - 2:56pm

I think we should just get rid of marriage, for both gay
and str8! *GRIN*


He talks about that option.

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Registered: 02-15-2004
Thu, 01-06-2005 - 5:13pm

Thanks Kim!

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Registered: 07-10-2004
Thu, 01-06-2005 - 9:48pm
Kim, thanks for the info. I will try to get a copy of the book.

 

 

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Registered: 02-15-2004
Thu, 01-06-2005 - 11:11pm
I'll get one tomorrow - thanks for the tip. I love book suggestions, we should do more of that around here. Hugs, Sandra

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Registered: 09-29-2003
Thu, 01-06-2005 - 11:20pm

Interesting Kim, Thanks.. Will look for it also at my library..."CAT"


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Registered: 06-24-2003
Fri, 01-07-2005 - 3:04am
Thanks Kim, I love to read and so far have been reading your suggestions.
All of them are very interesting reading.
Keep them coming. I am excited to read this one. Maybe I will accidently leave it in some waiting room when I am finished with it.
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Laurie
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Registered: 11-29-2004
Fri, 01-07-2005 - 2:41pm

I'm sorry, but I love your sense of humor. I read your post and it mad me laugh. Sometimes when life is so serious, it helps to laugh a bit. I enjoyed Tropopause's post and it's soundness, but I still had to smile at yours! lol Tropopause you rock with the information!

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Registered: 03-25-2003
Sat, 01-08-2005 - 1:42pm

>>I'm sorry, but I love your sense of humor.

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You're sorry because you love my sense of humor???
Hmmm...I'm going to take that as a compliment. Hmmm...taking it as a compliment, that is sick! *grin*

>>I enjoyed Tropopause's post and it's soundness, Tropopause you rock with the information!

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She's our resident Prof.
When we need professional help, we run to her.
When we need a sounding board, we run into her.
Of course, that makes for an expensive med bills.