by John | Sep 4, 2012 | Overseas commentary
Many letters to the editor appear oblivious to the fact that gay couples with children are part of our community. I am a lesbian, and my partner and I are expecting a baby any day. Research shows gay couples do a great job of parenting, but I don’t need research to...
by John | Sep 3, 2012 | Overseas commentary
What would make a study of how children raised by gay and lesbian parents do in life helpful? Rigor, valid comparisons, and a sense of what the words in that sentence—“raised,” “gay and lesbian,” and “parents”—might mean. None of those seem to be true of the latest...
by John | Aug 20, 2012 | Overseas commentary
I hate to break it to Conservative Party leader Colin Craig, but the biggest threat to so-called traditional marriage isn’t gay marriage. It’s love, actually. And economics. As someone who’s been married to the same person for nearly 30 years...
by John | Jul 30, 2012 | Overseas commentary
Next week, I head out on a two-week vacation. With pit stops in two of North America’s greatest cities — New York and Toronto — I will spend most of my time in Niagara Falls, USA. That’s my hometown. I haven’t been back in two years. And...
by John | Jul 27, 2012 | News, Overseas commentary, World news
A curious thing happened on the way to the first anniversary Tuesday of New York state’s sanctioning of gay marriage. That curious thing was nothing. Or at least nothing bad. The world did not come to an end. The warning of now-Cardinal and then New York...
by John | Jun 25, 2012 | Overseas commentary
IN my 2007 book, “The Future of Marriage,” and in my 2010 court testimony concerning Proposition 8, the California ballot initiative that defined marriage as between a man and a woman, I took a stand against gay marriage. But as a marriage advocate, the time has come...
