My Letter To A Senator Friend

March 29, 2011

Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., is a personal friend whom I have known for 35 years. My college roommate was his high school classmate in Big Sandy, the farm town on the high plains where Jon maintains his family homestead. I was an enthusiastic supporter when Jon was first elected to the Senate in 2006. His narrow victory over three-term Republican Conrad Burns was crucial in the Democrats’ sweep to a …

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Defense Of Marriage Act Proves Indefensible

February 24, 2011

President Obama, who is a former constitutional scholar, and his chief legal beagle had a belated but welcome epiphany yesterday: A president is not obliged to defend an indefensible law, and the Defense of Marriage Act is indefensible. In other words, just what I wrote in June 2009, after Obama and his Justice Department offered offensive justifications, including long-ago incestuous and adolescent marriages, for the federal government’s refusal to recognize …

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What Price Love? Try $1.75 Million

December 9, 2010

Think you can’t put a price on love? President Obama and congressional Republicans got together this week and came up with $1.75 million. Granted, they were not thinking in those terms. They were thinking of the federal estate tax. Last year, the tax was 45 percent on estates greater than $3.5 million. In 2010, there is no estate tax. But in the absence of new legislation, the tax is set …

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The Plain, Irrational Truth About DOMA

July 9, 2010

The judge who yesterday struck down much of the federal Defense of Marriage Act is not a liberal activist or a promoter of some “homosexual agenda,” though he is no stranger to bold judicial rulings. U.S. District Judge Joseph L. Tauro of Boston is a married 79-year-old grandfather, a former U.S. Army missile officer and a one-time federal prosecutor whom President Richard Nixon appointed to the federal bench in 1972. …

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For Same-Sex Couples, Love Ain’t Cheap

October 15, 2009

They say the best things in life are free. Being with a partner you love is certainly one of the best things in life, but, if you happen to be gay, it’s far from free. Two New York Times writers, Tara Siegel Bernard and Ron Lieber, recently attempted to calculate the price of being gay in America. While they acknowledge that the emotional costs of fighting prejudice are incalculable, they …

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Gays Get Choosier About Their Friends

June 19, 2009

Bill Clinton reached out to America’s homosexual community. Then, as president, he refused to let gays in uniform come out of the closet, and he signed the Defense of Marriage Act (DoMA) that denies federal recognition to same-sex marriages and supports states that ignore such marriages, too. Barack Obama has reached out to gays as well. But in five months as president he has not lifted a finger to rescind …

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