The current court struggle against the Defense of Marriage Act in the US Supreme Court could help decide the fate of same-sex marriage in this country. If the federal government decides that limiting marriage to one man and one woman is unconstitutional, opportunities for same-sex marriage legislation could open up in states that have banned such unions. Any laws currently […]
In the American classic ”The Scarlet Letter” Nathanial Hawthorne wrote about Hester Prynne, a woman who conceived a daughter through an adulterous affair with a minister. Her community, in 17th century Massachusetts, forces her to wear a red-letter “A” upon all of her clothing as a constant reminder of her transgression, and to publicly humiliate her. […]
So any regular readers of this blog already know, I am a straight spouse. A straight spouse is a person who married someone who they thought was straight only to find out years later that their partner was actually secretly gay. My marriage was smoke and mirrors of lies, deception and ultimately betrayal. From the […]
I don’t normally write this type of post, I usually try to have a point before I write. Some of these come right out of me while others take days even weeks before I am happy with them. But the past few weeks have been so strange, painful and weird I felt I had to […]
So a top ranking executive, Dan Cathy, at the fast food chain Chick-Fil-A said the following in an article in the Baptist Press “We are very much supportive of the family — the biblical definition of the family unit. We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives. […]
