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OutRight: Propaganda, More or Less?
Michael Moore's documentary Sicko has started a new round of thinking about reforming America's healthcare system. For gay Americans, especially gay men, the stakes in this debate are unusually high…
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OutRight: The Meaning of Massachusetts
By an overwhelming vote of 151–45, on June 14 the Massachusetts legislature rejected a proposed state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. The vote is significant in two ways. First, it…
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OutRight: Risky Business
Conservative opposition to gay marriage is having unconservative effects, helping to push the boundaries of family law into new territory that challenges the primacy of marriage itself. By opposing gay…
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OutRight: A New Anti-Gay Marriage Mantra
Opponents of gay marriage have tried a number of arguments, all of which have failed to end the progress toward the recognition of gay relationships. Now they're trying out a…
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OutRight: A Question of Morality … But Whose?
First, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Marine Gen. Peter Pace, was asked by newspaper reporters to explain why he supports DADT. According to the Chicago Tribune, Pace…
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OutRight: A Scorecard for Democrats
Democrats are now in charge of Congress, having gotten there in part with the support of millions of dollars from national gay organizations and about 75 percent of gay voters.…
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OutRight: Serve and Tell
Bit by bit, support for the military's ban on openly gay service members is crumbling. In a recent and important New York Times op-ed, retired army general and former Joint…
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OutRight: Lessons from Canada
The new Conservative government in Canada has lost its promised attempt to repeal same-sex marriage in that country. The vote in Canadian parliament was even more favorable to gay marriage…
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OutRight: Marriage and the Election
The biggest news from the election was the Democrats retaking control of both the House and the Senate. I don't expect national Democrats to do much positive on gay issues,…
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OutRight: Step by Step
The two guideposts in the battle for gay marriage in the coming years must be federalism and incrementalism. Federalism means focusing on the states (as I discussed in my column…
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