Response to Same Sex Unions0

• September/October 2004
• September 1, 2004

Faith, Reverence and Society0

• September/October 2004
• September 1, 2004

Equality And Matrimony0

• September/October 2004
• September 1, 2004

One enters the fray of the same-sex marriage debate with trepidation. The principal parties in the debate are so polarized, and the stakes seemingly so high, that anyone game enough to express an opinion either way had best be prepared to bear the brunt of brutal attacks not merely on his position but on his

Civil Rights And Homosexual Rights – A Flawed Analogy0

• September/October 2004
• September 1, 2004

Advocates of the homosexual rights movement repeatedly draw an analogy between their own struggle and the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, in which African-Americans worked to gain the rights enjoyed by other Americans but denied to them on account of their skin color. Just as African-Americans struggled to gain equal rights and

Canada's Justice Minister Wants to Change the Constitutional Meaning of Marriage0

• September/October 2004
• September 1, 2004

On June 10, 2003, Chief Justice Roy McMurtry, of the Court of Appeal of Ontario, issued a judgment ordering the government of Canada to recognize that the word "marriage" in Canada's Constitution must include both heterosexual and homosexual couples. In response, Canada's justice minister, Martin Cauchon, decided to introduce an amendment to Canadian law to

Beyond The State0

• September/October 2004
• September 1, 2004

Behind Closed Doors0

• September/October 2004
• September 1, 2004

There are people who might argue that a discussion of the same-sex marriage issue does not belong in Liberty magazine–a journal devoted to the freedom of religious expression and the constitutionally mandated principle of a separation of church and state. Of course they would have to be willing to restrict that very religious expression and