by Alex Greenwich | Jan 21, 2011 | Overseas commentary
In celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Freedom to Marry Executive Director Evan Wolfson was invited to the University of Michigan Law School to deliver a keynote address on the struggle for civil rights in the context of marriage for same-sex couples. Wolfson...
by Alex Greenwich | Jan 18, 2011 | Overseas commentary
On the ABC Religion and Ethics website, Professor of Jewish studies at the University of Toronto, David Novak, argues against marriage equality: ‘I want to change or undo those very precedents that have led to a situation where what might be called “the...
by Alex Greenwich | Jan 11, 2011 | Overseas commentary
Elected officials who are Catholic are stepping up to support marriage equality—often despite heavy-handed tactics by the Catholic hierarchy. Political figures know that Catholics in the electorate continue to grow in their acceptance of marriage equality for LGBT...
by Alex Greenwich | Jan 10, 2011 | Overseas commentary
Opponents of same-sex marriage worry that allowing two men or two women to wed would radically transform a time-honored institution. But they’re way too late on that front. Marriage has already been radically transformed – in a way that makes gay marriage...
by Alex Greenwich | Dec 30, 2010 | Overseas commentary
Obama says he is struggling with whether to endorse same-sex marriage. We say, support marriage equality. We can’t peer into President Obama’s soul, but his statement last week that he is “struggling” with whether to endorse same-sex marriage...
by Alex Greenwich | Dec 22, 2010 | Overseas commentary
Historian Elizabeth Abbott wishes she had read her own book before she got married. The union ended in divorce, leaving her a single mother. “I didn’t understand the importance of financial arrangements. I thought it was crass,” says Abbott, a...
