As legislators, we have two primary duties: uphold the Constitution, and protect the rights and interests of residents. I filter everything I do – every bill I introduce, and every vote I take – ...

As we watch and listen and wait and think and hope with regard to all that's transpiring at the Supreme Court hearing on California's ban on gay marriage, people around the country and beyond are ...

Do married people experience life as more meaningful than unmarried people? The reply is a bit complex. According to Tatjana Schnell’s The Psychology of Meaning in Life, married people have, on ...

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COMMENTARY: The dominant understanding today of the relationship between men and women no longer includes as an essential element the possible bearing and raising of children; hence, marriage has ...

Passage of the Respect for Marriage Act by bipartisan margins in Congress is an occasion for celebration. This new law repeals the noxious Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a 1996 statute that codified ...