debatableland.com - 1/4/2009
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There are times when it's good to be away from the hurly-burly of American politics. Doubly so when the subject of gay marriage comes up. Here, for instance, is a story it is hard to imagine happening in the United States: Nick Herbert, the Conservative party's Shadow Justice secretary has ...
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Conservatism And Gay Couples
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... In the US, one of the striking aspects of the Republican rump is its insistence that one of only a handful of defining policies is its opposition to marriage rights for gays. Joe Carter recently argued that it was inconceivable that conservatives could support such a thing, or that a conservative case can be made for it. If that is true, then the British Tories are no longer conservative: ...
Same Sex Conservatism?
The Moderate Voice —
... Via Alex Massie I see that David Cameron’s Tories now have a second — second — openly gay, prominent member of his shadow cabinet who has publicly entered into a civil partnership. The Telegraph ...
Europe, US Differ On Israel's Actions In Gaza
Newshoggers.com —
... In a post titled "Transatlantic Differences," Alex Massie muses about how differently Americans would react than Brits to news that two members of the shadow cabinet of the conservative party had entered (separately) into homosexual civil unions. ...
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