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To Our Readers:

Same-sex marriage is currently an omnipresent and hotly controversial issue which we have not written about. There are conflicting opinions within New Democracy over this issue, as there are conflicting views among good people everywhere about it.

Gay marriage is a very unusual issue, in the sense that it is both a distraction from other issues, like the war and the economy, and yet is itself an issue of great consequence to human society.

Given these facts, we would like to sponsor a debate on gay marriage and on other controversial "cultural" issues, in which people can have respectful, meaningful exchanges of views on highly-charged topics. We begin with two brief articles (in the lefthand column).

Articles

bullet "Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage: What is at Stake?" by John Spritzler, February 27, 2008
bullet"Equal Marriage For All" by Phil Katz. (May 28, 2004).
bullet "Marriage Matters" by Maggie Gallagher (a link to National Review online)
bulletA Reassessment of Gaylib by Simon Jones

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bulletStop Iran's Execution of Three Gay Teenagers by John Spritzler
bulletLiberalism's Contempt for the Welfare of Children by John Spritzler
bulletRace and Class in Civil War Mississippi by John Spritzler
bulletThe White Cop and the Black Professor by John Spritzler
bulletBanning Cigarette Sales, and Class Inequality by John Spritzler
bullet"Why They Voted For Obama But Against Same-Sex Marriage" by John Spritzler
bullet What Is a Liberal to Do? by John Spritzler
bullet"Judges Run Wild" by Ned Holstein
bullet"Why Are Families Under Attack?" by John Spritzler. (July 2004).
bullet How the Same-Sex Marriage Issue Cripples the Anti-War Movement by John Spritzler (August 2004)
bullet"George Bush, The Anti-Family President" by Bill Kauffman. (October 27, 2003).
bullet"Higher Education Free For All?" by John Spritzler -- taking Jim Hightower to task for promoting big business's lies about education (NDN* May-August 2002)
bullet"War Or War?" by Carolyn Chute (NDN* November 2001 - February 2002)
bulletEditorial: "Ordinary People" (NDN* July-August 2001)
bullet"Billionaires, Crime and Corruption" by John Spritzler (NDN* September-October 2001)
bullet"Violence Peace Reason Force" by Carolyn Chute (NDN* March-June 2001)
bullet"Making Connections" by Dave Stratman (NDN* Jan-Feb 2001)
bullet"Poll Shows Americans Want Global Solidarity, Not Competition" by John Spritzler (NDN* March-June 2001)
bullet"The Kids Are All Right - They're Fighting The Corporations" by John Spritzler. (NDN* January-February 2001)
bulletEditorial: "High Stakes Testing: Why Are They Doing This To Our Kids?" (NDN* May-June 2000).
bulletAn interview (sort of!) with Carolyn Chute, redneck author of the bestseller, The Beans of Egypt, Maine. (NDN* March-April 2000)
bullet"Shaya's Story" (and "About Shaya's Story"  by Doug Fuda) (NDN* July-August 2000)
bullet"A Discussion Concerning Nonviolence" by Dave Stratman (NDN* March-April 1999)
bullet"Privatizing The Public Realm" by Shirley Kressel (NDN* July-Aug. 1998).

* "NDN" indicates that the article is from the New Democracy Newsletter.

 

 

 

 

 

Links
 
bullet Lulled by the Celebritariat, by Toby Young
bulletCan the Traditional Family Survive Feminism? by Carolyn Graglia
bulletReclaiming the Commons by David Bollier
bullet A quarter of adults to face 'anti-paedophile' tests by Christopher Hope
bullet Professor: profit motive behind sexualization of 'tween girls
bullet The Gospel of Consumption, and the better future we left behind, by Jeffrey Kaplan
bullet Negotiating the difficulties of a delicate pact: an adoptee wonders about her mothers--especially the one who went away. Will she end up feeling unwanted again? By Sonia Nazario, Times Staff Writer, August 6, 2007
bullet'If you don't take a job as a prostitute, we can stop your benefits' by Clare Chapman (a true story)
bulletWhy Having More No Longer Makes Us Happy by Bill McKibben
bullet Madness and Capitalism by William Bowles
bullet My Father was an Anonymous Sperm Donor, by Katrina Clark (Washington Post)
bullet Talking with Children Conceived Through Donor Insemination, IVF wtih Egg Donor or Surrogacy, by Ellen Singer
bullet How it feels to be a child of donor insemination
bullet Gay Rights, Children's Rights, by Margaret Somerville
bullet"Mitt Romney's Secret Gay History: Despite Himself, Anti-Gay Governor Has Accumulated Pro-Gay Record" by Ethan Jacobs
bullet"One Smile Can Make You Feel A Million Dollars" by Alastair Jamieson
bullet"Worth Repeating: It's the Clash of Families, Not Civilizations"  by Wahida C. Valiante
bullet "What Dads Do" by Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D. in ifeminists.com
bullet "On Handcuffed and Felonious Children" by Wendy McElroy
bullet"Women told 'Work in Brothel, or Else': German law forces out-of-work females to take sex jobs or lose unemployment" (January 30, 2005)
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"What Happened to the Concept of Shame" by Terry Mitchell

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"How 'Diversity' Breeds Division" by Munira Mirza in Spiked

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"On the Clock" by Craig Russell: "We assume so much in life. Take time, for instance."

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"Bush plans to screen whole U.S. population for mental illness" by Jeanne Lenzer in the British Medical Journal

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"Britain: Teenagers driven to depression and suicide by exam pressures" by Liz Smith at World Socialist Website (related technical links of interest: "FDA  Talk Paper" and "Suicidality, violence and  mania caused by ... SSRIs..."  (pdf) by Peter R. Breggin in the Int'l J. of Risk & Safety in Med.)

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"Therapeutic pi" at Spiked

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"Gay Nuptials And The Making Of Modern Marriage" by Adam Haslett  -- demonstrates why "Gay marriage is unsettling, to many, not because it departs from modern meanings of matrimony but because it embodies them." but does not question the merits of "modernity."

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"Marriage On Trial: Why We Must Privilege And Burden The Traditional Marriage Bond" by Dr. Allan C. Carlson, Ph. D.

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Joint Statement Of Massachusetts Religious Leaders

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"Black Clergy Rejection Stirs Gay Marriage Backers" by Michael Paulson.

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"Time To Act" by Paul Rogat Loeb.

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"The Casual Emptiness Of Teenage Sex" by Scot Lehigh.

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"What Should I Do? Selfishness, Happiness And Benefiting Others" by David Edwards and Media Lens.

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"Abortion And The Left" by Carl Estabrook.

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"Opie, Anthony And Enron" by Jay Diamond.

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"The Lunatic You Work For" from  Economist.com.

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"Is There Really A Fatherhood Crisis?" by Stephen Baskerville.

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"Becoming More Human On Christmas" by G. Simon Harak. Do babies make us human?