Tag: Marriage

Census: Marriage rate at 93-year low, even including same sex couples

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Census: Marriage rate at 93-year low, even including same sex couples

Paul Bedard · September 18, 2014 2:34 pm

Speaking at the University of Minnesota Law School on Tuesday, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the justices will be watching the Cincinnati-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which is currently considering a gay marriage case. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Ginsburg: Gay marriage rests on Ohio

Kelly Cohen · September 17, 2014 5:34 pm

One of the central arguments of the lawyers defending gay marriage bans are that we should limit marriage to male-female couples because that's been the norm in Western cultures for millennia. It's an argument deeply rooted in conservative political philosophy, which has never really had much influence in the United States. (iStock Photo)

‘Tradition’ is not a good argument against gay marriage

Steve Chapman · September 3, 2014 9:28 pm

A marriage between a man and a woman provides children with mothers and fathers. (iStock)

Kinship, bloodlines matter to everyone

Ryan Bradel · August 20, 2014 10:18 pm

VIDEO: Supreme Court puts gay marriage on hold in Virginia

Ed Sykes · August 20, 2014 9:17 pm

U.S. Rep. Don Young, center, and his fiancee, Anne Garland Walton, left, speak to others during "Candidate Sunday" at Anchorage Baptist Temple in Anchorage, Alaska on Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)

81-year-old Rep. Don Young is getting married

Sean Lengell · August 18, 2014 4:53 pm

Circuit courts will hear arguments in gay marriage bans later this summer in Indiana, Wisconsin, Idaho and Nevada. (Graphic: iStock/Elliot Smilowitz/Washington Examiner)

Gay marriage bans undergo scrutiny in four states

Sean Lengell · August 6, 2014 4:24 pm

Supreme Court poised to revisit gay marriage issue

Sean Lengell · July 29, 2014 3:36 pm

As the law stands today, two unmarried parents actually get a bigger tax benefit than two married parents. (iStock Photo)

Eliminating marriage penalty in family tax issues, simplifying education credits just makes good sense

Rep. Diane Black, Rep Lynn Jenkins · July 25, 2014 2:20 pm

There has to be a way to push sensible limited-government policy reforms without making unmarried Americans feel left out. (iStock Image)

Republicans can’t leave unmarried Americans behind

Philip Klein · July 24, 2014 7:26 pm

VIDEO: Eric Holder says Justice Department will continue support for gay marriage

Ed Sykes · July 14, 2014 11:47 am

HHS Extends Head Start Participation to Same-Sex Marriage Families

Jeryl Bier · June 5, 2014 11:15 am