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May 17, 2013 9:27 AM Remember Civil Unions? The Shifting Middle Way in the Same-sex Marriage Debate

We welcome this guest post from Robert Jones and Daniel Cox of the Public Religion Research Institute.***** May 2013 is only half over, but it has been an eventful month for same-sex marriage legislation: Rhode Island, Delaware, and Minnesota all...

By John Sides

April 10, 2013 10:46 AM Conservatives on Gay Marriage: How Will They Continue to Oppose it?

I’ve been thinking, since he posted it, about Jonathan Chait’s piece several days back regarding the anti-marriage-equality movement’s swan song. Alertly noting the tone of elegy and self-pity in Maggie Gallagher’s latest musings on her political activity, Chait wrote: The...

By Andrew Sabl

April 09, 2013 11:31 AM Antonin Scalia's Funny Reasoning

Doug Hartmann writes (link from Jay Livingston): Justice Antonin Scalia’s comment in the Supreme Court hearings on the U.S. law defining marriage that “there’s considerable disagreement among sociologists as to what the consequences of raising a child in a single-sex...

By Andrew Gelman

March 29, 2013 11:29 AM Hidden Time Bomb in the Gay Marriage Case?

The Orwellian “Defense of Marriage Act” seems to have had a bad day with the Supremes, which is a good thing. Let’s assume that the Court strikes down section 3, which bans federal benefits for same-sex couples, and does what...

By Jonathan Zasloff

March 28, 2013 11:29 AM The Concern Trolls Are Right About Gay Marriage, but that's Nothing to be Concerned About

As the Supreme Court begins hearing oral arguments on Prop 8 and DOMA in the shadow of a remarkable shift in public opinion in favor of marriage equality, a number of conservatives have noted that if the Court decides in...

By Hans Noel