The queerness of lost boys in butt huts struck me in the journalistic accounts I had read, and I took…
Revisited: Polyandry now!
The future of marriage
Scholars untangle the past and future of the family in this forum.
The blame game
How did the same people who elected Barack Obama President last Tuesday vote to pass Proposition 8 in California, the…
Relationships and recognition
A woman emerges from a failed relationship of two years' duration. Despondent over the relationship's demise, she laments that family,…
Promoting marriage and Christianity in America
Following the recent California Supreme Court ruling in favor of same-sex marriage, National Public Radio offered a report on “the…
Reforming culture
What exactly was wrong with the Yearning for Zion ranch---home to a group identified with the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus…
The race to marriage
On April 3, 2008, state authorities raided a polygamous compound in Eldorado, Texas founded by Warren Jeffs, the now imprisoned…
Marriage as a neo-liberal wolf
There are many important implications to the California marriage ruling, but my particular concern is with the implications of this…
“Traditional” marriage or a break with tradition?
The recent California court ruling in favor of same-sex marriage has elicited a new round of warnings about the threats…