Gay marriage and historical inevitability " One day, not long from now, it will be hard to remember what worried people so much about gay and lesbian couples committing themselves to marriage. And, when that day comes, President Obama's ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-05-15 15:21 - 0 comments

Barack Obama's gay marriage evolution " To have the president of the United States affirm my humanity - and the humanity of all gay Americans - was, unexpectedly, a watershed. He shifted the mainstream in one interview." (Andrew ...

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Gay marriage, in cartoons (slide show) Not Editors Choice Friday, 11 May 2012 - 3:07pm And finally ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-05-11 15:10 - 0 comments

Obama supports gay marriage, taking a risky stand "Obama's endorsement, a milestone for the gay rights movement, was the first from a sitting president and a potentially powerful tail wind for a cause still struggling for electoral ...

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The myth about marriage " Why do some people who would recognize gay civil unions oppose gay marriage? Certain religious groups want to deny gays the sacredness of what they take to be a sacrament. But marriage is no sacrament." ...

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worth watching . Barack Obama recently expressed his support for gay marriage in the US, ... It came in the show's final minutes, in response to an audience question to Joe Hockey on gay marriage. Hockey's response was to reiterate his opposition, claiming a child is better off ...

PoliticOZ - admin - 2012-05-15 11:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

of the most conspicuous advocates of a conscience vote on gay marriage, which he favours. To advance ...

The Monthly - Robert Manne - 2012-04-04 09:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(samesex union, samesex union) (March 2012, The Nation Reviewed, Gay Marriage, Human Rights, LGBT, LGBT ... Sydney’s Champion Gay Rugby Team ... Jay-Z, Killer, Jumbo, Fezbot, Big Girl – and range in age from 18 to 50-plus. Nearly all of them are gay ...

The Monthly - Benjamin Law - 2012-04-05 16:45 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

euthanasia and gay marriage. Ahead of this year’s twentieth anniversary of the party’s formation, ... Milne. Whether it’s asylum seekers, gay marriage, uranium to India or more US troops in Australia, ...

The Monthly - Sally Neighbour - 2012-03-01 10:55 - 7 comments - 0 attachments

conservative, adversarial or obstructionist. He prefers ‘can-do’ to ‘can’t-do’. He supports gay marriage and has ... emissions, Carbon tax, Energy, Floods, Gay Marriage, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Labor Party, Liberal Party, ...

The Monthly - Nick Bryant - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(Gay Marriage, Homosexuality, Judaism, Orthodox Jew, Time) ... The Orthodox rabbi helping gay men marry lesbians "Harel says the number of gay people seeking these matches sparked his decision to take ...

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according to his website. He’s riled Greens, gays, feminists, Muslims and small ‘l’ liberals with his campaigns against action on climate change, gay equality and the burqa. “Cory is deluded,” says ... “the sanctity of human life” and marriage as “a sacred bond between a man and a woman”, and pledged: “I ...

The Monthly - Sally Neighbour - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

asylum seeker policy or gay marriage or even radical climate change policy where the divisions between ... and their voters will also probably remain divided on some issues – asylum seekers, gay marriage and the American ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2011-11-23 10:28 - 7 comments - 0 attachments

to the success was the willingness of marginalised high-risk groups (intravenous drug users, gay men and sex ... American men who had died of a new wasting disease that went by many names, all with the prefix ‘gay’: ‘gay cancer’, ‘gay plague’, ‘gay pneumonia’ and finally the official acronym, ‘Gay-Related Immune Deficiency’ ...

The Monthly - Gail Bell - 2011-11-30 12:26 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(Gay Marriage, New York Times) ... cast gay men and lesbians in the most benign, conservative light imaginable, not as enemies ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-07-14 10:09 - 0 comments

fuss, no politics,” Bolt wrote. It apparently never occurred to him how lonely a life “the only gay ... from Ireland (a traditional ring worn one way for love, then turned after marriage), and the small ...

The Monthly - Anne Summers - 2011-10-11 16:38 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

my views diverge from his on euthanasia and gay marriage, for example – but his arguments are always ... Gay Marriage, Literary criticism, Literature) ...

The Monthly - Linda Jaivin - 2011-06-30 15:49 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

gay-marriage rights, gay conservatives have thrown our elders overboard. Daniel Reeders Footscray, ... In a compassionately drawn picture of gay seniors who have been affected by Centrelink’s recognition of their relationships, Benjamin Law (‘A Gay Old ...

Letters to the Editor - admin - 2009-08-06 13:47 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The latest Galaxy poll finds that a majority of Australians support gay marriage, but the best that gay ... especially its anti-gay-marriage wing, but if The Sunday Telegraph report is accurate then Ruddock ... SOCIETY, Australian Politics, Biography, Football, Gay Marriage, Mark Twain, Memoir, Subcultures, Travel) ...

The Monthly - Amanda Lohrey - 2009-09-03 14:53 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

with controversial issues such as euthanasia, abortion, gay marriage and so on, parliament would remain supreme. ... Constitution, Australian History, Bill of Rights, Censorship, Euthanasia , Gay Marriage, Human Rights, John ...

The Monthly - Geoffrey Robertson - 2010-04-08 14:55 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

title – The Marriage of Figaro or the Day of Madness – seems germane under the circumstances. In one ... of greatest pain. I’ve found those kind of apparent contradictions always absorbing.” Being gay extended ... at Belvoir St Theatre, The Marriage of Figaro at the Sydney Opera House until 23 October. ...

The Monthly - Jana Wendt - 2010-09-02 13:54 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

expects “pro-gay” activists to blockade the entrance at any moment, she says she doesn’t have anything against gay people; after all, she used to be one of them. After a hymn, the proceedings get underway ... is Briar Whitehead, a New Zealand native, whose late brother was gay. Whitehead compares same-sex ...

The Monthly - Benjamin Law - 2010-04-08 15:12 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

and paving the way for everything from gay marriage to legalised heroin. If, on election night, the Greens do ... that once drew support for the centre-left (i.e. those campaigning for women’s rights, opposition to gay ...

The Monthly - Guy Pearse - 2010-07-07 12:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

by William Baker who, before he was Kylie’s stylist, creative director and cosily connubial “gay husband”, ... her early, brief marriage to Julian McMahon, Dannii was bemused by the biological chores that go ...

The Monthly - Peter Conrad - 2011-09-14 21:09 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

opposition to apartheid and the war in Vietnam, and support for Aboriginal land rights, feminism, gay ... Previous story: Births, Deaths and Marriages Next story: The Public Mind ...

The Monthly - Martin Krygier - 2010-07-07 12:52 - 0 comments - 0 attachments