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Law Practice

Aug. 18, 2012

Language and marriage

People may never agree on the fundamentals of marriage, but they have an opportunity to reach consensus by thinking more closely about the language of marriage. By Elizabeth Byrne Debreu


By Elizabeth Byrne Debreu


Marriage is a big deal, and it means a lot to a lot of people. President Barack Obama heated up that front of the culture war, a daring move in a presidential election year because people simply don't agree on this issue.


The gay movement, as Robert Scheer put it recently on KCRW's "Left, Right and Center," defines sexuality as a human right and sees all sexual behavior as a constitutionally guaranteed freedom...

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