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10 posts tagged "gay marriage"

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Gay love laid ‘Bare’ in PEMCo’s fall show

Claire Lyons | Monday, December 5, 2022

As Congress was passing the Respect for Marriage Act last week, members of Pasquerilla East Musical Company (PEMCo) were hard at work preparing for their fall show, “Bare: A Pop Opera,” which features a closeted gay couple.  “Bare” is a rock-musical focusing on the secret lives of a group of private Catholic boarding school students.

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Gay marriage? Love loses.

Jeffrey Murphy | Thursday, November 15, 2018

“A system of government that makes the People subordinate to a committee of nine unelected lawyers does not deserve to be called a democracy.” – the late-Justice Scalia, in dissent June 26, 2015 should have been one of the greatest days in American history (right behind November 8, 2016). For literally thousands of years, same-sex

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The future of religious liberty

Eddie Damstra | Thursday, December 7, 2017

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in the controversial case of Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The case will determine whether a bakery owner has the right to refuse to provide a wedding cake to a gay couple. This case will result in one of the most important Supreme Court decisions in

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Marriage and the state

Devon Chenelle | Tuesday, January 31, 2017

In a famous bit, comedian Louis C.K. expresses his consternation with gay marriage opponents, noting none are, for example, obligated to attend same-sex matrimonies or buy the newlyweds a gift. “It doesn’t have any effect on your life,” inveighs CK, and I long affirmed his conclusion that opposition to marriage equality was thus simply myopic

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A Catholic case for same-sex marriage

Letter to the Editor | Friday, September 16, 2016

In yesterday’s Tocqueville lecture, Archbishop Chaput spoke of the implications of religious liberty for the Church’s teachings on marriage and family. Putting aside the complicated question of religious liberty in America, I would pose a different question: Why does the Catholic Church choose to defend a limited interpretation of its teachings on marriage? The teachings

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Debate examines Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage

Megan Valley | Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Eight months after the landmark Supreme Court ruling Obergefell v. Hodges, which decided same-sex couples had the fundamental right to marry, the debate over the decision is still going. As part of this ongoing discussion, the Tocqueville Program and BridgeND sponsored a debate between Stephen Macedo, a professor at Princeton who defends the ruling, and

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Debating the future of marriage

Letter to the Editor | Monday, February 8, 2016

Tonight in DeBartolo Hall, the Tocqueville Program will host a debate between Stephen Macedo and Ryan T. Anderson on the future of marriage, gay rights and religious freedom. Macedo is the Rockefeller Professor of politics at Princeton, as well as the former Director for the University Center of Human Values, and Anderson, who earned his Ph.D

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Debate examines meaning of marriage

Margaret Hynds | Tuesday, January 27, 2015

On Tuesday, the debate “What is Marriage?” examined the definition and meaning of marriage and looked at both sides of the same-sex marriage debate. The Tocqueville Program for Inquiry Into Religion and American Public Life and the Dean’s Fellows of the College of Arts and Letters co-sponsored the event, which featured Dr. John Corvino and Sherif Girgis,

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Students join conversation about Indiana gay marriage ruling

Lesley Stevenson | Monday, September 29, 2014

The Supreme Court convened privately Monday to determine whether it will hear a case appealing the Sept. 4 decision by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that Indiana’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. The Justices are considering seven cases from five different states, including Indiana, and can choose to hear all, none or some of the

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Outside group protests gay marriage

Ann Marie Jakubowski | Sunday, April 27, 2014

A group from the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP)  gathered outside DeBartolo Hall dressed formally in red and black Friday to hand out flyers titled “10 Reasons why Homosexual ‘Marriage’ is Harmful and Must be Opposed” and talked to students about opposition to gay marriage. A counter-demonstration of students

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