;


HNN Hot Topics: Same-Sex Marriage

Hot Topics
tags: Hot Topics, gay history, DOMA, same-sex marriage




Image via Shutterstock.


Click HERE to read our most recent articles.

Related Links

  • HNN Hot Topics: Gay History
  • HNN Hot Topics: Was Lincoln Gay?

  • News

  • Protests Over Gay Rights Greet Historians' Meeting (1-11-10)
  • AHA Members Back Move to Embarrass but Not Boycott Anti-Gay Hotel Owner at Next Convention (1-4-09)
  • Newsweek: Opponents of gay marriage often cite Scripture. But what the Bible teaches about love argues for the other side (12-6-08)
  • Gay history museum shows current debate is nothing new: Marriage issue made headlines even 50 years ago (10-18-08)
  • Gay Marriage Through a Black-White Prism (10-29-06)

  • Commentary

  • Committee on LGBT History: We Are Proud Historians Helped Make DOMA/Prop. 8 Decisions Possible (6-26-13)
  • Historians Played Important Role in DOMA Decision (6-26-13)
  • Melissa Harris-Perry: What Difference Will Same-Sex Marriage Make? (3-27-13)
  • Gay marriage, DOMA and the dramatic shift in public opinion in one year (3-18-13)
  • AHA addresses historical issues in Supreme Court DOMA case
  • David Lee McMullen: The Manhattan Declaration and"Traditional" Marriage (2-21-10)
  • Linda Kerber: The Historians' Amicus Brief in the Iowa Gay Marriage Case (4-4-09)
  • Stephanie Coontz: The Real Marriage Revolution (4-1-09)
  • Timothy Stewart-Winter: Putting Obama's gay marriage questionnaire in context (1-14-09)
  • Thomas A. Foster: Why Putting Civil Rights Up to a Vote Is a Bad Idea (11-13-08)
  • Timothy Stewart-Winter: Gay Marriage and the Black Vote (8-14-08)
  • Ruth Rosen: We're Already Married (5-16-08)
  • Allan Tulchin: The 600 Year Tradition Behind Same-Sex Unions (8-31-07)
  • Stephanie Coontz: Activist Judges or Re-Activist Judges? (6-12-06)
  • James C. Cobb Are the Opponents of Gay Marriage Toying with Our Independent Judiciary? (5-22-06)
  • Robert Frakes Why the Romans Are Important in the Debate About Gay Marriage (2-19-06)
  • Stephanie Coontz: It Was Straights Who Undermined Marriage, Not Gays (2-19-06)
  • Estelle B. Freedman: Historical Alternatives to Mainstream Marriage (8-04)
  • Joanna Grossman: The States Have Different Laws Regulating Divorce ... So Why Not Gay Marriage, Too? (7-14-04)
  • Hendrik Hartog: What Gay Marriage Teaches About the History of Marriage (8-8-05)
  • Peggy Pascoe: Why the Ugly Rhetoric Against Gay Marriage Is Familiar to this Historian of Miscegenation (4-19-04)
  • Randy Scholfield: Gay Marriage? What Next ... Women Voting? (5-12-04)
  • Mark A. Peterson: The Puritans and Gay Marriage (4-04)
  • Mark Gallagher: The Hysteria About Gay Marriage: A Minister's Perspective (4-21-04)
  • Nicholas Kristof: Gay Marriage a Bad Idea? So Was Interracial Marriage a Few Decades Ago (3-4-04)
  • Jonathan Dresner: Doubletalk on Gay Marriage (3-3-04)
  • Joseph Ellis: What Would Jefferson Say About the Amendment to Ban Gay Marriage? (2-29-04)
  • P.M. Carpenter: Why the Amendment Banning Gay Marriages Is Bad Politics for Bush (3-1-04)
  • Andrew Sullivan: Other States Wouldn't Have to Recognize a Gay Marriage License Issued by Massachusetts (2-27-04)
  • Kathleen Dalton: Why Gays Should Be Allowed to Say "I Do" (2-28-04)
  • Margot Adler: Did Gay People Get Married in the Past? (2-23-04)
  • Anne E. Kornblut and Lyle Denniston: Will Bush's Support for a Constitutional Ban on Gay Marriage Make Much of a Difference? (2-26-04)
  • Editorial: Amend the Constitution to Prohibit Gay Marriage? (2-26-04)
  • Andrea Georgsson: Twenty Years from Now, Gay Rights Will Be Taken for Granted (2-22-04)
  • Jonathan Dresner Cambodian King Endorses Gay Marriage in Handwritten French Blog (2-21-04)
  • Steven Horwitz: Gay Marriage, the Ten Commandments, and the Rule of Law (2-16-04)
  • Jonathan Dresner: Gay Marriage: Personal Connections (2-17-04)
  • Andrew Schocket: The Massachusetts Court Decision on Gay Marriage Is No Shocker (8-8-05)
  • Ralph Luker Changing the Constitution to Protect Adam and Eve? (8-11-03)

  • comments powered by Disqus

    More Comments:


    fei lin - 4/7/2009

    [url=http://http://www.nikeqs.com]Wholesale Nike Shoes[/url]
    [url=http://www.nikeqs.com]cheap seakers[/url]
    [url=http://www.nikeqs.com/product.asp?bigclassid=2]cheap jordans[/url]
    [url=http://www.nikeqs.com/product.asp?bigclassid=6]cheap nike shox[/url]
    [url=http://www.nikeqs.com/product.asp?bigclassid=5]cheap air max[/url]
    [url=http://www.nikeqs.com/product.asp?bigclassid=3]cheap nike dunks[/url]
    [url=http://www.nikeqs.com]cheap nikes[/url]
    [url=http://www.nikeqs.com]jordan shoes[/url]
    [url=http://www.nikeqs.com]nike dunks[/url]
    [url=http://www.nikeqs.com]cheap nike shoes[/url]
    [url=http://www.nikeqs.com/product.asp?bigclassid=12&;smallclassid=111]cheap guuci shoes[/url] [url=http://www.nikeqs.com/product.asp?bigclassid=7]cheap adidas shoes[/url]
    [url=http://www.nikeqs.com/product.asp?bigclassid=4]cheap Air Jordan Force Fusion[/url]
    [url=http://www.nikeqs.com/product.asp?bigclassid=25]cheap NFL Jerseys[/url]


    Todd Jordan - 4/30/2005

    Life, Liberity and the Purist of Happiness
    http://www.futureoftheunion.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1101

    As a working class hetrosexual happily married husband and father of one I know first hand the value and the blessing of having a family. I thank God everyday for the many blessings and gifts He has provided for me in my wife and child. Many people would label my family by calling us a model for what a traditional family should look like. We would simply call ourselves in love. When my wife and I bean dating we never thought about how we wanted to start a "traditional" family. All we knew was that we loved each other and we wanted to spend the rest of our lives together. That was all we needed or wanted to know. Regardless of what anyone thought or said to us could not have changed this. We to this day continue to have the same bond and love we had for each other so many years ago. Without any doubt we found the life, liberity and the purist of happiness in the American dream.

    Looking at the events that this country is facing now I question the right for anyone who would force their views and disrupte someones right to life, liberity and the pursit of happiness that my wife and I are allowed to enjoy. This same type of thinking is what America did to millions of people of color in this country which still continues today. From a historical stand point we should have looked back and learned from our mistakes as a nation. It is simply unamerican to act in the manner which we continue to do today. Who am I to imposs my views on another man or violate his right to life, liberity and the pursit of happiness? I hold no right to elevate myself or my family views to dictate over the freedom of my brother or my sister. Every man shall hold this freedom to rule his own life, his own liberity, and he shall have the right to pursue happiness with no limits that I or anyone else shall place upon him. This freedom his fathers diead for, and today they perish for it in foriegn lands so that he to may have this right.