<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Gay Marriage Columns</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</link><description>Gay Marriage Columns</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Faith-Based Pandering]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64467-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64467-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:17:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Totally by mistake, I was summoned to meet Sen. Bill Frist shortly after he first arrived in Washington. This happened because someone in Frist's office confused me with the congressional affairs correspondent of the National Journal, Richard E. Cohen, but I stayed to meet Frist anyway and found him impressive. Time and tide have changed my view. He is now the Senate majority leader and an undeclared but neon-lit presidential candidate who is getting into shape for the long run to the White House by shedding anything that weighs him down. In his case it's principles.]]></description><author> Richard Cohen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can We Take Action Without Taking Sides?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2533-2005Mar26.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2533-2005Mar26.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:17:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Religion and politics are a volatile mix, and were even before Jesus was put to death for blasphemy and sedition almost 2,000 years ago. I kept this in mind in leading my congregation through the observance of Holy Week, and reminding people that Jesus was killed after being accused of both religious and political offenses.]]></description><author> Henry G. Brinton</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life in the Spin Cycle]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8744-2005Mar4.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8744-2005Mar4.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:17:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[One day last week, four stories on the front page of the Los Angeles Times were about efforts to shape public perceptions.]]></description><author> Michael Kinsley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Redder, for Bluer]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36619-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36619-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:17:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Last week's column about unconventional marriages may have left the impression that I was writing only as a neutral observer. T'ain't so. Count me among those who are in relationships that do not conform to customary practices.]]></description><author> Colbert I. King</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Test for Tolerance]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40034-2004Dec31.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40034-2004Dec31.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:17:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   New Year's Day is not exactly the best time to pass along bad news, but as John Wayne famously said, "A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do." Or, to put it in modern, non-gender specific terms, "One does as one must," which, admittedly, doesn't sound half as cool, but why begin this column by antagonizing some folks? Rest assured, that will come further down the page.]]></description><author> Colbert I. King</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maryland Democrats' Real Values]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15150-2004Dec20.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15150-2004Dec20.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:17:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   In his Dec. 12 Close to Home piece, "To Stay Afloat, Maryland Democrats Better Swim in the Mainstream," Tim Maloney said that if the Democrats insist "on being the party of gay marriage or partial-birth abortion, they are slamming the door on many moderates. These voters sympathize with traditional Democratic goals."]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civil Rights Lightning]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56433-2004Dec10.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56433-2004Dec10.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:17:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Sometime during the late 1980s, some guy (I don't remember who) from some conservative think tank (CATO? Hoover?) asked me at some Washington reception whether the New Republic, where I worked as the editor, would be interested in publishing an article advocating gay marriage. It was the first that I had heard of the idea.]]></description><author> Michael Kinsley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bleeding Heart Businesses]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46998-2004Nov12.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46998-2004Nov12.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:17:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Compassionate capitalism. Think it sounds like an oxymoron? Think again. Even as America is supposedly turning conservative on social issues, big business is moving in the other direction.]]></description><author> Marc Gunther</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderates, Not Moralists]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35437-2004Nov8.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35437-2004Nov8.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:17:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   John Kerry was not defeated by the religious right. He was beaten by moderates who went -- reluctantly in many cases -- for President Bush. This will be hard for many Democrats to take. It's easier to salve those wounds by demonizing religious conservatives. But in the 2004 election, Democrats left votes on the table that could have created a Kerry majority.]]></description><author> E. J. Dionne Jr.</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Few Rights, Please]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31101-2004Nov6.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31101-2004Nov6.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:17:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Dear America:<br>Now that you've had a chance to catch your breath, we really need to take a moment and reflect on what has occurred.]]></description><author> Gordon P. Phelps</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning Back  Values Voters]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29473-2004Nov5.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29473-2004Nov5.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:17:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  BOSTON -- I got familiar with the losing business rather early in life. When I was just a kid my dad ran for Congress. He lost by about 600 votes, although I suspect that over the years, that number has been chipped away by family lore.]]></description><author> Ellen Goodman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Outrage That Rings False]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37009-2004Oct15.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37009-2004Oct15.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:17:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Nicolle Devenish, communications director for the Bush-Cheney campaign, said Thursday that John Kerry will pay a heavy political price for what he did. Lynne Cheney, the vice president's wife, said, "This is a bad man."]]></description><author> Hilary Rosen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understanding Gay Life and 'Real America']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1819-2004Oct1.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1819-2004Oct1.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:17:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Thank you so much for your series  on young gay people in rural America [front page,  Sept. 26 and 27]. As a gay man who grew up in Oklahoma (I graduated from high school in 1994), reading the articles has brought back some painful and bittersweet memories. Most profound among these memories is a sense of deep loneliness and isolation -- the fear that I was the only person in the world dealing with those feelings. If your articles can reach even one gay teenager somewhere in rural America and let him know that he isn't alone, then you will have done a tremendous service.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mr. Schrock's Hypocrisy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64591-2004Sep5.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64591-2004Sep5.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:17:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   So we should be concerned about Rep. Edward L. Schrock's right to sexual privacy ["Outing Mr. Schrock," editorial, Sept. 2] regarding allegations that he is a homosexual? Give me a break. What about the legal and sexual privacy of the rest of the gay community? Mr. Schrock (R-Va.) has had no problem working with other conservatives to try to deny my basic rights as a gay American. The fact that he is a closet case is no big surprise and deserves no sympathy given his long campaign against gay rights.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New Segregation]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42715-2004Aug28.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42715-2004Aug28.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:17:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Vice President Cheney's statement on gay marriage is a surprise but hardly progress [front page, Aug 25].  Leaving marriage as "a matter for the states to decide" is a segregationist argument. It was made in 1967 when the Supreme Court struck down the ban on interracial marriage that existed in 16 states (<em>Loving v. Virginia</em>).]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love or Ideology? Heart or Strategy?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37222-2004Aug26.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37222-2004Aug26.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:17:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Vice President  Cheney has a lesbian daughter who matters more to him than ideology. So on Tuesday he said that people "ought to be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to" and that states ought to make their own decisions on marriage laws.]]></description><author> E. J. Dionne Jr.</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Do You Think She Was Thinking?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20382-2004Aug20.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20382-2004Aug20.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:17:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Dina Matos McGreevey is the latest political spouse to stand by her man, following the bracing, sisterly advice proffered by the Tammy Wynette ballad that has become the unofficial anthem of the American political wife. Sit by your man was the variant we observed during the Clinton years, when Hillary and Bill nestled side by side before the TV cameras to demonstrate their solidarity in the face of persistent accusations of marital infidelity.]]></description><author> Francine Prose</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some Answers for Mr. Will]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52984-2004Aug9.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52984-2004Aug9.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:17:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   George F. Will ["Questions for Kerry," op-ed, Aug. 5] rhetorically says to John Kerry:]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democrats' Shaky Convergence]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22697-2004Jul28.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22697-2004Jul28.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:17:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Democrats have convinced most of the journalists covering their convention here that their party has eliminated most of its internal differences. That is true, unless you count the gap between the party's head and its heart.]]></description><author> David S. Broder</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affirming Inequality in Virginia]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12245-2004Jul24.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12245-2004Jul24.html?nav=rss_politics/specials/gaymarriage/commentary</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:17:59 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Del. Robert G.  Marshall (R-Prince William) seems to claim that the new Marriage Affirmation Act goes no further in restricting the rights of gay individuals than did the Affirmation of Marriage Act passed in 1997 [letters, July 3]. If this is so, why would he introduce another bill that does the same thing?]]></description><author></author></item></channel></rss>