Marriage=One man, one woman
Washington, April 4, 2012 –North Carolina is the only remaining southern state that has not explicitly defined marriage in its constitution as a union between one man and one woman. Voters there will...
View ArticleMarriage Amendment perspective
Editor’s note: Below is the debut of Dr. Joe Guarino’s weekly column. We are delighted to have him! After having made the decision to suspend my blog earlier this week, I received a number of kind...
View ArticleThe legalities of Amendment One
As the debate over Amendment One heats up, the deliberate misinformation and scare tactics regarding the amendment are becoming more widespread. Sadly, the public is being fed sound bites, not...
View ArticleNorms, natural law, and gay marriage
Editor’s note: The artilce below was originally published as a News & Record column on October 16. For the record, it should be noted that a majority of the Republican-controlled legislature did...
View ArticleMarriage, Marx, and Amendment One
Editor’s note: The following essay was originally published in the Gaston Gazette. The brouhaha going on regarding marriage in NC says so much about the state of confusion encouraged by people who want...
View ArticleAddressing Anti-Marriage Amendment Arguments
The other day, I had the singular misfortune of seeing my first television advertisement against the marriage amendment that our state will be voting on this coming Tuesday. You may have seen it –...
View ArticleThe Misuse and Abuse of “Discrimination”
In the News & Record of Saturday, April 28, Rabbi Fred Gutman and Reverend Julie Peeples claimed to “respect the religious opposition of some to same-sex marriage.” If this is so, then why did they...
View ArticleMarriage Amendment Postscript
In the wake of North Carolina’s marriage amendment vote, it is interesting to consider a article penned by Greg Forster recently published at a Witherspoon Institute website. Forster makes reference to...
View ArticleThe splendor of intolerance
According to Wednesday’s News & Record, the Sheriff’s Department in Onslow County (Jacksonville) has charged a man with bigamy. (For those of you who attended public schools, bigamy is “the act of...
View ArticleWade is the rational choice in Senate District 27
“North Carolina can’t take another four years of divisiveness and social engineering in the General Assembly.” –the Website of State Senate candidate Myra Slone Miss Slone (D), who is running against...
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