Archivo etiqueta «Matrimonio homosexual»
By Boris O. Dittrich, advocacy director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights Program at Human Rights Watch. He was the first openly gay member of parliament in the Netherlands (1994-2006) (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 17/04/11):
Ten years ago this month, when the Netherlands became the first country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage, most Dutch people were in favor of the law, but a vocal minority insisted that gay marriage would mean the end of Western civilization. It took a political slugfest to get the law passed.
I was a member of parliament at the time and … Seguir leyendo
By Stephanie Coontz, who teaches family history at the Evergreen State College and the author of A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s (THE WASHINGTON POST, 09/01/11):
Opponents of same-sex marriage worry that allowing two men or two women to wed would radically transform a time-honored institution. But they’re way too late on that front. Marriage has already been radically transformed – in a way that makes gay marriage not only inevitable, as Vice President Biden described it in an interview late last year, but also quite logical.
We are near … Seguir leyendo
Por Fernando Grande-Marlaska Gómez, magistrado, y Marta del Pozo Pérez, profesora contratada y doctora de Derecho Procesal de la Universidad de Salamanca (EL PAÍS, 25/10/10):
En un primer momento, al enfrentarnos a la idea de escribir este artículo al alimón, pensamos que de las mil palabras que lo componen nos sobraban casi todas, pues un solo motivo bastaba para justificar que el matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo es constitucional. Y lo es por un argumento de sentido común, que como es sabido no siempre es el más común de los sentidos. Esta actuación por nuestra parte hubiera … Seguir leyendo
Por Pablo Salvador Coderch, catedrático de Derecho Civil de la Universidad Pompeu Fabra (EL PAÍS, 06/09/10):
En un referéndum de noviembre de 2008, 7 millones de electores californianos atrancaron las puertas de acceso al matrimonio a las parejas homosexuales (Proposición 8: “Solo el matrimonio entre un hombre y una mujer es válido y reconocido en California”). En contra votaron 6.400.000, y los partidarios del matrimonio homosexual llevaron la cuestión a los tribunales (Perry contra Schwarzenegger).
El pasado 8 de agosto, el juez federal Vaughn R. Walker ha resuelto a favor del matrimonio homosexual, pero inmediatamente su decisión ha sido … Seguir leyendo
By Lou Cannon, a biographer of Ronald Reagan and an editorial adviser and columnist for the State Net Capitol Journal (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 08/08/10):
When a federal judge ruled last week that a California ballot measure banning same-sex marriage violated the Constitution, he complicated the political strategy of Meg Whitman, the personable Republican billionaire who wants to be our next governor. Yet while most close observers of California politics think the decision is either irrelevant to the race or puts Ms. Whitman in a tough corner, there’s also a chance it could play out in a way that … Seguir leyendo
THE WASHINGTON POST, 08/08/10:
The Post asked policy advocates and political experts for their views on the fallout from U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker’s ruling last week overturning California’s Proposition 8. Below, responses from Joe Mathews, Maggie Gallagher, Douglas E. Schoen, Lea Brilmayer, Jarrett T. Barrios and Ed Rogers.
Two backlashes are possible as a result of this decision.
The first, a backlash from opponents of gay rights, is likely to be small. Yes, defenders of Proposition 8 will perform the ritual railing against judicial activists (and complain that the fix was in because the judge who issued the ruling … Seguir leyendo
By Edwin Meese III, a fellow at the Heritage Foundation and attorney general of the United States during the Reagan administration (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 12/01/10):
The much-anticipated trial to determine the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 8 is scheduled to begin this morning in the case of Perry v. Schwarzenegger. What’s at stake in this case, filed in federal district court in San Francisco on behalf of two gay couples, is not just the right of California voters to reaffirm the definition of marriage as only between a man and a woman, but also whether marriage may be otherwise … Seguir leyendo
By Andrew Brown, the editor of Cif belief (THE GUARDIAN, 25/10/09):
The Church of Sweden’s decision to make no distinction in its marriage service between straight and gay couples is not as straightforward a triumph for liberal attitudes as it may seem. For one thing, half the church’s bishops signed a letter condemning it; but the extraordinary decision-making structure of the Swedish church means they have no special voice in its decisions.
The church is run by an assembly that is elected directly – in theory by all its members. In practice, the turnout is about 10% and the … Seguir leyendo
By Tom Suozzi, the Nassau County executive (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 13/06/09):
When I ran in the Democratic primary for governor against Eliot Spitzer in 2006, I vocally supported civil unions for same-sex couples but did not endorse equal marriage. I understood the need to provide equal rights for gays and lesbians, but as a practicing Catholic, I also felt that the state should not infringe on religious institutions’ right to view marriage in accordance with their own traditions. I thought civil unions for same-sex couples would address my concerns regarding both equality and religious liberty.
I was wrong.… Seguir leyendo
By Jennifer Finney Boylan, a professor of English at Colby College and the author of the memoir I’m Looking Through You: Growing Up Haunted (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 12/05/09):
As many Americans know, last week Gov. John Baldacci of Maine signed a law that made this state the fifth in the nation to legalize gay marriage. It’s worth pointing out, however, that there were some legal same-sex marriages in Maine already, just as there probably are in all 50 states. These are marriages in which at least one member of the couple has changed genders since the wedding.
I’m … Seguir leyendo
By Steven W. Thrasher, a writer and media producer (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 09/04/09):
If it weren’t for Iowa, my family may never have existed, and this gay, biracial New Yorker might never have been born.
In 1958, when my mother, who was white, and father, who was black, wanted to get married in Nebraska, it was illegal for them to wed. So they decided to go next door to Iowa, a state that was progressive enough to allow interracial marriage. My mom’s brother tried to have the Nebraska state police bar her from leaving the state so she … Seguir leyendo
By Mary Frances Berry, the chairwoman of the Commission on Civil Rights from 1993 to 2004 and the author of And Justice for All: The United States Commission on Civil Rights and the Continuing Struggle for Freedom in America (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 16/01/09):
As the country prepares to enter the Obama era, anxiety over the legal status and rights of gays and lesbians is growing. Barack Obama’s invitation to the Rev. Rick Warren, an evangelical pastor who opposes same-sex marriage, to give the invocation at his inauguration comes just as the hit movie “Milk” reminds us of the … Seguir leyendo
By Caitlin Flanagan, the author of To Hell With All That and Benjamin Schwarz, the national and literary editor of The Atlantic (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 07/12/08):
The attitude of white, liberal Hollywood toward African- American churches has long been one of almost participatory respect. Whether it’s Gospel Brunch at the House of Blues on Sunset Boulevard, or the Blind Boys of Alabama on the iPod, or a serious — reverential — mention of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference over dinner, the understanding is clear: the black church is a foundational institution in the history of the civil … Seguir leyendo
By Dan Wentzel, an actor and writer living in Southern California (THE WASHINGTON POST, 24/11/08):
A week after the election, I was riding the bus home in Santa Monica when we went past one of the many protests around the city against the narrow passage of Proposition 8, which amended the California constitution to eliminate marriage rights for an entire class of people.
The bus driver surveyed the situation and exclaimed, loud enough for the passengers to hear, “sodomites!” I’ve been so hurt and angry since my theoretically liberal and gay-friendly state passed Proposition 8 that I instantly replied, … Seguir leyendo
By Dan Savage, the editorial director of The Stranger, a Seattle newsweekly, and the author of The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage and My Family (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 12/11/08):
Countless Americans, gay and otherwise, are still mourning — and social conservatives are still celebrating — the approval last Tuesday of anti-gay-marriage amendments in Florida, Arizona and, most heartbreaking, California, where Proposition 8 stripped same-sex couples of their right to wed. Eighteen thousand same-sex couples were legally married in California this past summer and fall; their marriages are now in limbo.
But while Californians march and gay activists contemplate … Seguir leyendo