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REPUBLICAN U.S. Senate leaders have a chance to give a renegade member the treatment he deserves. Liberal Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Penn., is in line to become the next chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Senate Republicans should not allow this to happen. Specter is a disloyal Republican who would not even be a senator today had President Bush not made the terrific blunder of supporting him in the Republican primary earlier this year. By way of thanks, Specter ran ads with Michael J. Fox this fall touting his opposition to President Bush on embryonic stem cell research. Worse, discussing...

February 6, 2004 - Friday Massachusetts (more on this state) On Nov. 18, 2003, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts set off a time bomb that could redefine marriage for every American. By a vote of 4-3, these unelected judges ruled that limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples violated the state constitution, and ordered the state legislature to address the issue by changing Massachusetts law. State legislators have the opportunity to defuse this bomb with their vote on Feb. 11, 2004. On this day, both houses of the state legislature will convene in joint session as a Constitutional convention. On the...

IX. AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE One of the most insightful—and disturbing—windows on the view of the legal profession (at least some very influential members of it) on marriage, comes through in an examination of the recently approved Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution (“Principles”) put together by the American Law Institute (“ALI”).332 The historic contributions of the ALI towards legal changes have not necessarily been salutary.333 But aspects of the recent Principles are particularly troubling. One disturbing part of the Principles is chapter 6, which recommends the creation of certain rights to be made available to unmarried couples on the...

Poll Finds that Most Americans Support a Constitutional Amendment to Defend Marriage Communities of Color Lead the Way In Support for a Federal Marriage Amendment on a Day When Marriage Goes On Trial in the Massachusetts Courts WASHINGTON, DC — A national Wirthlin poll released March 4, 2003 by the Alliance for Marriage shows that a majority of Americans favor a constitutional amendment to protect marriage as the union of a man and a woman from lawsuits being filed by activist lawyers in courts across the country. The release of these findings comes on a day when the state supreme...