California likes to pass initiatives and "propositions." Matters we folks in Indiana routinely leave to our legislature wind up as ballot measures out in la-la land; the just-concluded March 7 primary…
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Category Archives: Gay Rights
Sending a Message
By the time you read this column (if we are lucky), the Indiana Legislature will have finished its work and gone home. Watching the legislative process always makes me wonder whether democracy can really last…
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I’m Back
With this month’s edition of the Word, my regular column returns. For those of you who have only recently begun reading this publication, I must warn you that this is a mixed blessing. (Longtime readers already know that!) During my…
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Reaping What Bigots Sow
My husband and I are friends with a couple who are raising his two sons by a former marriage. They live an average suburban life. Their house is on a wooded acre with swings and slides for the kids in the back yard. They drive soccer and baseball carpools with their neighbors, and worry about balancing their careers and the…
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Defaming Faith Communities
Last year, voters in the state of Maine endorsed a law barring discrimination against gays. On February 10th of this year, in a single-issue referendum, they narrowly repealed that measure.
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