Scalia attacking his fellow SCOTUS justices sounds like Pentheus excoriating Teiresias and Cadmus in “The Bacchae.” Unlike Scalia’s fellow justices, Teiresias gives as good as he gets.
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Justice Scalia, Blind Like Pentheus
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Rise Up, Plain Bellied Sneetches!
Dr. Seuss’s story of the sneetches captures America’s melting pot story.
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Same Sex Marriage–Good but Not Enough
Rachel Kranz’s “Leaps of Faith” affirms same-sex marriage but questions prioritizing it over other GLBT issues.
Novels: Training Ground for Citizenship
Novels have an inherently liberal dimension in that they get us to identify with people very different from us.
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Using Donne to Defend Same Sex Marriage
John Donne’s impatience in “The Canonization” could be that of same sex couples who want to get married and wonder about all the fuss.
Leadership 101: Grade Obama
Andrew Sullivan says that we should not look for a savior in gay rights issues because, in America, “we save ourselves.” The sentiment also appears in a Lucille Clifton poem that appeared following the assassination of Martin Luther King.
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An All American Family, with a Twist
“The Kids Are All Right” strikes a blow for traditional family values within a same sex marriage.
Same-Sex Marriage, a Leap of Faith
Rachel Kranz My novelist friend Rachel Kranz is currently in Maine campaigning with gay friends to save same-sex marriage against attempts to ban it. I mention this because her first novel, Leaps of Faith, is the most intelligent fictional exploration of same-sex marriage that I know. Among the differences between politics and fiction is the […]
