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...homes over the past two decades, with only a mere handful of them going to gay and lesbian couples. The Church’s dogmatic position on homosexuality, however, has forced it to grapple with Mass. law, which both requires anti-discriminatory policy in adoption and, more recently, permits same-sex marriage. According to Boston Archbishop Sean O’Malley, in the choice between its faith and state law, the Church feels obligated to “withdraw from the work of adoptions, in order to exercise the religious freedom that was the prompting for having begun adoptions many...
Campaigning for the office once held by former Democratic presidential candidates Senator John F. Kerry and ex-Governor Michael S. Dukakis ’60, the group of Beacon Hill hopefuls expressed agreement on every issue that was raised—from universal health care to same-sex marriage—leaving the race to differences of character and style...
...also frustrating—and curious—that conservative Christian organizations are not taking a stance on the budget. Focus on the Family says it is a matter of priorities, and their priorities are abortion, same-sex marriage, and seating judges who will back these positions. I’d like them to point out where in the Bible it says abortion and same-sex marriage are designated as the most important priorities for Christians, when alleviating poverty—mentioned over 3000 times in the New Testament alone—was clearly one of Jesus’ most...
...During one activity led by Ochs, who is also an adviser to BGLTSA and speaks about bisexuality across the country, participants positioned themselves along a room-sized “Kinsey Scale”—named for ground-breaking sexuality researcher Dr. Alfred Kinsey. The rubric measures same-sex attraction on a 0-6 scale. Ochs asked students to stand at a point on the scale corresponding to the level of same-sex attraction they felt before their tenth grade year. “Wait, when did ‘Dark Angel’ come...
...appeared at protests to echo his message and calm enraged supporters. Later she led a 15-year push that succeeded in 1983 in establishing a federal holiday in his honor, founded the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change and traveled the world in support of civil rights issues, including same-sex marriage. King was criticized for her efforts to secure a new trial for James Earl Ray, who was convicted of assassinating her husband. (She believed, as did some others, that Ray was probably innocent and King's murder was the work of several conspirators.) Her primary legacy, though...