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Saturday, November 21, 2009 2:05 PM

Published 11/05/2009 by The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed


Geoffrey R. Stone: Same-Sex Marriage and the Meaning of Words

In reading through the comments on my recent post about the electoral result in Maine (The Lessons of Maine), I could not help but notice that many defenders of the ban on same-sex marriage argue that marriage has always been defined as a relationship between a man and a woman,...

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