Showing posts with label same sex marriage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label same sex marriage. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Online dating in the US--is it past peak?

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 Here's a 2022 survey I just came across from Pew Research. It caught my eye because it reports a much lower percentage of life partners...
Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Evangelical resolution on the 21st Century

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 The NYT has the story: Southern Baptists Endorse Effort to Overturn Same-Sex Marriage The nation’s largest Protestant denomination was moti...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Same-sex marriage challenges, redux

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 The NYT has the story: Same-Sex Marriage Is the Law of the Land. Some States Are Debating It Anyway.   State efforts to urge the Supreme Co...
Friday, January 24, 2025

New marriage laws, in Thailand and Iraq (allowing same sex marriage, and child marriage, respectively)

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  Same-sex couples can now marry in Thailand, and children as young as nine can now be married in Iraq. Thailand Celebrates New Same-Sex Mar...
Sunday, October 20, 2024

Italy criminalizes surrogacy from abroad

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 Italy has banned its citizens from accessing surrogacy in other countries where it is legal.  It will be interesting to see how they enforc...
Thursday, August 22, 2024

Surrogacy under continued attack in Italy

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The language of repugnance is strong in these latest developments. The NYT has the story: Has Power Moderated Italy’s Leader? Not to Same-Se...
Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Same sex unions take a limited step forward in Hong Kong

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 The Washington Post has the story: Hong Kong court hands rare victory to advocates of same-sex unions , By Lily Kuo and Vic Chiang Septembe...
Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Repugnance watch: same sex weddings in Nigeria are illegal even for guests

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  The NYT has the story: Nigeria Arrests Dozens Over Same-Sex Wedding . A 2014 law makes such unions illegal in the country. Anyone found gu...
Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Surrogacy under siege in Italy

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 Opposition to surrogacy in Italy has taken aim at the babies of same sex couples. The NYT has the story: Surrogacy Emerges as the Wedge Iss...
Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Biden Signs Bill to Protect Same-Sex Marriage Rights

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 With little delay after the Senate passage of the bill , the House followed, and now President Biden has signed into law a bill protecting ...
Thursday, December 1, 2022

Same sex marriage rights reaffirmed by the Senate

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After a Supreme Court ruling in 2015, it seemed secure that the right to same sex marriage was the law of the land. However the recent Supre...
Friday, October 7, 2022

This Supreme Court term has many cases on repugnant transactions and controversial markets

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 The newly conservative-dominated Supreme Court is ready for its second term, and has a docket full of what readers of this blog know I thin...
Thursday, October 6, 2022

Gay couples, surrogacy, IVF and health insurance

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  The Guardian has a story about the obstacles consulting a married gay couple in New York. They have an ongoing lawsuit regarding discrimin...
Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Singapore to repeal law against sex between men.

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  The Guardian has the story: Singapore to repeal law that criminalises sex between men. Scrapping of colonial-era section 377A law hailed a...
Thursday, June 30, 2022

Same sex marriage in Colorado: then and now

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In 1975, as the county clerk of Boulder County, Cela Rorex issued several marriage licenses to same sex couples, before the State Attorney G...
Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Japanese court upholds ban on same sex marriage

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 The Japan Times has the story: In LGBTQ rights setback, Japan court says barring same-sex marriage not unconstitutional     June 20, 2022 ...
Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Same sex marriage now legal in Switzerland, by popular referendum

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  The BBC has the story (it happened last month, but I wasn't paying attention): Switzerland same-sex marriage: Two-thirds of voters bac...
Monday, July 19, 2021

Surrogacy in Israel: now available to same sex couples (and single fathers)

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 Here's the story from the Washington Post: Israel’s high court opens the way for same-sex couples to have children via surrogacy   By C...
Sunday, July 4, 2021

Trans as a gender identity

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 New freedoms continue to be recognized. It is not so long ago that sexual orientation and then same sex marriage were at the forefront of t...
Friday, June 25, 2021

Blood donation, risk groups, and blood tests

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  Before blood tests were developed for hepatitis virus and later for HIV, it made sense to screen potential blood donors by whether they we...