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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).
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Articles
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* "NDN" indicates that the article is from the New Democracy
Newsletter.
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The
Gospel of Consumption, and the better future we left behind, by
Jeffrey Kaplan |
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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 |
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'If you don't take a job as a prostitute, we can stop your benefits'
by Clare Chapman (a true story) |
| Why Having More
No Longer Makes Us Happy by Bill McKibben |
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Madness and Capitalism by William Bowles |
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My Father was an Anonymous Sperm Donor, by Katrina Clark (Washington
Post) |
| Talking with Children Conceived Through Donor Insemination, IVF wtih Egg
Donor or Surrogacy, by Ellen Singer |
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How
it feels to be a child of donor insemination |
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Gay Rights, Children's Rights, by Margaret Somerville |
| "Mitt Romney's
Secret Gay History: Despite Himself, Anti-Gay Governor Has Accumulated
Pro-Gay Record" by Ethan Jacobs |
| "One
Smile Can Make You Feel A Million Dollars" by Alastair Jamieson |
| "Worth
Repeating: It's the Clash of Families, Not Civilizations" by
Wahida C. Valiante |
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"What Dads Do" by Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D. in ifeminists.com
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"On Handcuffed and Felonious Children" by Wendy McElroy |
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"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? |
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