Day: March 16, 2006

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Defend marriage–defeat HB2381

  By Pennsylvania, Sexual and gender equality

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives is expected to vote as early as today on HB 2381, a proposed amendment to the Pennsylvania Constitution that not only limits marriage to a heterosexual couple but could also take away existing legal protection, under local laws, for committed long-term couples and their children, such as hospital visitation rights, inheritance rights, pension benefits and health insurance coverage among others. It is likely to undermine the domestic partnership laws that have been created in many localities, such as Philadelphia. I urge you to contact your state legislators to tell them that you oppose HB 2381. Contact information for state legislators can be found on the Neighborhood Networks website. Continue reading

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Gay Marriage and Polygamy

  By Love and Sex

A common conservative critique of homosexual marriage is that it will threaten the institution of marriage. This is, in many respects an odd idea. It is not obvious why granting the right to marry to people who do not now have the right but seek it threatens the very institution of which these people want to be a part. Nor, given the mess that so many heterosexuals make of marriage is it all the plausible to blame gays and lesbians for threatening the institution. But there is one argument that I have found carries a certain weight in anti-homosexual circles, the notion that accepting homosexual marriage will set us on a slippery slope to the widespread acceptance of polygamy. (The junior Senator in Pennsylvania evidently thinks that it will also lead to inter-species marriage.) Since some people in Utah do seek the right to have polygamous marriages, conservatives ask us how we… Continue reading