Showing posts with label Marriage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marriage. Show all posts

Saturday, July 11, 2015

Law "Would Eliminate The Words 'Husband' And 'Wife'"

Law "Would Eliminate The Words 'Husband' And 'Wife'"

July 11, 2015 Gendered Terms , Husband 0 Comments

Dems Declare War On Words 'Husband,' 'Wife'

By Pete Kasperowicz, July 9, 2015
Washington Examiner

More than two dozen Democrats have proposed legislation that would eliminate the words "husband" and "wife" from federal law.

Those "gendered terms" would be replaced by "gender-neutral" words like "spouse" or "married couple," according to the bill from Rep. Lois Capps, D-Calif.

"The Amend the Code for Marriage Equality Act recognizes that the words in our laws have meaning and can continue to reflect prejudice and discrimination even when rendered null by our highest courts," Capps said. "Our values as a country are reflected in our laws. I authored this bill because it is imperative that our federal code reflect the equality of all marriages."

The Supreme Court ruled in June that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution means all states have to license same-sex marriages, a ruling that effectively ended the same-sex marriage debate in America. Capps said her bill was aimed at taking the next step, which is to ensure the United States Code "reflects the equality of all marriages."

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Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Things are NOT getting worse in "race relations"

December 31, 2014 Interracial Marriage , Marriage 0 Comments
Intermarriage: A Real Measure Of Race Relations

Naomi Schaefer Reilly, Dec. 29, 2014, New York Post

Our liberal elites have plainly decided it’s better if we’re all convinced that our country had made no progress on race since 1960, that lying just beneath the surface of every white person is a gurgling volcano of racial epithets ready to spew forth at the slightest provocation.

The current trend toward chronicling “microaggressions” (bits of racism so small you might not even see them as racism) is, if anything, evidence of the lack of a problem

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Monday, November 24, 2014

Finds time for love

November 24, 2014 Darren Wilson , Ferguson 0 Comments
Officer Darren Wilson Marries Ferguson Officer Girlfriend

By Staff Writer, Nov. 24, 2014, Fox2now.com

CLAYTON, MO – Officer Darren Wilson married his girlfriend last month. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports Wilson, 28, married a 36-year-old woman who is also a Ferguson police officer. This is Wilson’s second marriage.

The couple applied for a marriage license at the St. Louis County courthouse. The couple went unnoticed when they filled out the application. Judge Christopher Graville performed the informal ceremony in Overland.

Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown, 18, on August 9th, 2014. The shooting of the unarmed teen sparked demonstrations that turned to looting. The protests have now gone over 100 days. A grand jury is currently meeting to decide to indict officer Wilson. Their decision could come any day.

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Saturday, November 8, 2014

Headed toward SCOTUS

November 08, 2014 Democracy , Equality 0 Comments
Appeals Court Upholds Bans On Same-Sex Marriage For The First Time

Robert Barnes, Nov. 6, 2014, Washingtonpost.com

A federal appeals court panel upheld bans on same-sex marriage in four states Thursday, a break with other federal courts that makes it almost certain the Supreme Court must take up the issue of whether gay couples have a constitutional right to marry.

A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit in Cincinnati ruled 2 to 1 that although same-sex marriage across the nation is practically inevitable, in the words of U.S. Circuit Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton, it should be settled through the democratic process and not the judicial one.

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Monday, November 3, 2014

Isn't that obvious?

November 03, 2014 14th Amendment , CATO Institute 0 Comments
Federalism Doesn’t Mean That States Can Do Whatever They Want

Ilya Shapiro, Oct. 27, 2014, Cato At Liberty

Cato and the Constitutional Accountability Center have filed another amicus brief in a marriage case, this one challenging Louisiana’s restriction of marriage licenses to opposite-sex couples and its non-recognition of out-of-state same-sex marriages. Filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit—where last month we filed in a case out of Texas—this is an appeal from the only ruling to uphold a state marriage law since the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Windsor struck down part of the Defense of Marriage Act. (A federal judge in Puerto Rico also recently upheld that commonwealth’s law.)

Our previous briefs, including in that Texas case and also regarding the marriage laws of Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia, Michigan, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, and Wisconsin in the Tenth, Fourth, Sixth, and Seventh Circuits, respectively, focused on the original public meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause and its guarantee of “equality under law” for all. Here, however, we focus on federalism, democracy, and why states shouldn’t automatically get judicial deference when they pass legislation.

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Tuesday, August 5, 2014

After 62 Years Of Marriage, They Die 4 Hours Apart

August 05, 2014 ABC News , Don and Maxine Simpson 0 Comments
Don and Maxine Simpson
By Geetika Rudra, Aug. 3, 2014, Abcnews.com

It's a love story that lasted a lifetime, and beyond.

Don and Maxine Simpson, of Bakersfield, Calif., were married 62 years and died within four hours of each other.

"It's absolutely beautiful, and the story is beautiful," Melissa Sloan, the couple's granddaughter, told ABC affiliate KERO-TV.

The couple met at a bowling alley and were inseparable ever since. They raised two boys, traveled the world, and became well-respected members of Bakersfield.

Two weeks ago Don Simpson was taken to the hospital for a broken hip, but his health quickly started to deteriorate. His family brought him home to be with his wife, who had been battling cancer for several years.

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Monday, July 21, 2014

Where's HER spreadsheet on HIS "Performance"?

July 21, 2014 Elisabeth Griffin , Esquire.com 2 Comments
Man Creates Spreadsheet of Wife's Reasons for Turning Down Sex

By Elisabeth Griffin, Jul. 20, 2014, Esquire.com

Don't do this. Ever.

This is one way not to excel at life. A frustrated husband decided to create a spreadsheet detailing all the times his wife said no to sex and the reasons she gave him. Then emailed it to her. Because that's a great idea and an even better way to turn her on. His wife, reddit user throwwwwaway29, then posted the spreadsheet online:


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Monday, May 19, 2014

The Evolution Of Marriage --Children simply do better--and are better-- with both Mom and Dad

May 19, 2014 Family Unit , Fatherless Communities 0 Comments
By Ryan T. Anderson, May 19, 2014, Nationalreview.com

A girl for every boy, a boy for every girl”: That’s the main thesis of William Tucker’s engaging new book. With polygamy, you see, there isn’t a girl for every boy, and the leftover boys must find some other — usually disruptive and frequently violent — way to pass their time. But the “unique social contract of monogamy — a male for every female, a female for every male — lowers the temperature of sexual competition and frees its members to work together in cooperation. It is at this juncture that human societies — even human civilizations — are born.”

Tucker is not himself an academic, but he is a smart journalist, and Marriage and Civilization: How Monogamy Made Us Human is the result of some 20 years of reading through the scholarly literature on marriage and thinking through the implications. It’s written for “the average reader,” and covers some “subjects that many scholars and academics in the field seem to find uncomfortable.” Indeed, Tucker comes to some rather politically incorrect views. His work is a clear-headed presentation of a “biological, anthropological, and historic understanding of the role that monogamy has played in the evolution of human society” — and by monogamy Tucker doesn’t simply mean any old union of two people, but an exclusive and more or less permanent union of a man and woman, husband and wife, father and mother.

Monogamy so understood doesn’t happen by chance. In a certain sense, “human monogamy — the pair-bonding of couples within the framework of a larger social group — is not entirely a natural institution.” After all, “monogamy does not sustain itself ‘naturally.’” And yet, when monogamy is lived out, human civilization flourishes. As Tucker puts it, “The rule is: those who form traditional families succeed; those who don’t fail.”

Because monogamy doesn’t grow on trees, “it requires rules — rules that must be continuously enforced by the members practicing it.” So, while “monogamy is manifestly a more equitable and successful way to organize a society, it is always under siege and forever fragile.” And if a society “becomes lax or indifferent about upholding its norms, the advantages will quickly unravel — as we are plainly witnessing in the America of today.”

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