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Coalitions and slippery slopes: The same-sex marriage debate continues
Earlier this summer, the Supreme Court of the United States confirmed the constitutional right of same-sex couples to marry. Unsurprisingly,…
SCOTUS roundup: Rulings on DOMA and Prop 8
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 on Wednesday that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a 1996 law…
Politics of religious freedom in South Africa
Unlike Europe and North America, the discussions in South Africa relating to religious freedom do not center on the extent…
Changing religious attitudes towards gay marriage
On February 7, 2012, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that California’s 2008 Proposition 8- a referendum banning same-sex…
Religion and marriage debate
Should the state be in the business of marriage, or is it inherently a religious union that should be performed…
Presbyterians split on gay-friendly measure
A vote before the Presbyterian Church's (U.S.A.) General Assembly in Minneapolis this past Thursday allows gays in a committed relationship…
HI governor vetoes civil unions bill
Citing her belief that the debate over civil unions should settled by referendum and not through the state legislature, Hawaii…
Democrats and evangelicals try to forge coalition for immigration reform
The Uniting American Families Act (UAFA) was introduced in 2009 to close a loophole in immigration law that discriminated against…
8: The Mormon Proposition
Joanna Brooks, a scholar of religion who grew up in a conservative Mormon household, writes about Mormon opposition to same-sex marriage,…