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Marriage:

• Vicar's wedding trial idea | A Church of England vicar is welcoming couples considering marriage to give them a flavor of the big day (BBC)
  
  
• Can this marriage be braved | Seven weeks before their wedding, the happy couple put their relationship to a harrowing test: marriage mentoring. An upside-down roller-coaster ride into the world of premarital education (The Washington Post Magazine)
  
  
• What would he say? | Jesus railed against a grave threat to marriage. No, not homosexuality—divorce (Jack Miles, Los Angeles Times)
  
  

Gay marriage:

• Same-sex weddings bring division to an upstate village | New Paltz has become a village divided ever since its mayor, Jason West, addressed the national debate over same-sex marriage (The New York Times)
  
  
• Mayor of N.Y. town marries gay couples | Twenty-one gay couples exchanged wedding vows on the steps of New Paltz village hall Friday in a spirited ceremony that opened another front on the growing national debate over gay marriage (Associated Press)
  
  
• While gays rush to the altar, Albany takes it slow | When the mayor of New Paltz decided to begin performing same-sex weddings last week, some state leaders tried to simply stay out of the way (The New York Times)
  
  
• From Ithaca, a new challenge for New York state on the issue of same-sex weddings | The national debate on same-sex marriage spread to another college town in upstate New York on Monday, with city officials in Ithaca challenging the state Health Department to refuse marriage applications submitted by gay couples (The New York Times)
  
  
• The gay rights movement, settled down | Gay rights activists today care less about liberation, and more about health care benefits for their partners. Is that a loss? (The New York Times)
  
  
• The case for gay marriage | It rests on equality, liberty and even society (Editorial, The Economist)
  
  
• The joy of gay marriage | Here's the denouement of the epic drama over gay marriage. It's going to happen, it's going to happen within a generation, and it's going to happen even though George W. Bush teed off his re-election campaign this week by calling for a constitutional amendment to outlaw it (Frank Rich, The New York Times)
  
  
• Warren Court opened door to wedding chapel for gays | The 1954 ruling against "separate but equal" reverberates today (Jim Newton, Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• A fight for hope | Yes, we're fighting to prevent people from taking away rights we don't have. The irony does not escape us (Michael Alvear, The Washington Post)
  
  
• The pilgrims wouldn't mind gay marriage | Interestingly, they didn't consider marriage a sacred affair, and in their communities magistrates, not church ministers, presided over weddings (David Aaronovitch, The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Revolution by fiat | We are the only Western country to have legalized abortion by judicial fiat rather than by democratic approval of the people or the legislature. Are we going to do it again with gay marriage? (Charles Krauthammer, The Washington Post)
  
  

Gay marriage and religion:

• Drawing lines in the aisle | How local religious leaders view same-sex marriages from a religious perspective (Daily Pilot, Newport Beach, Calif.)
  
  
• Row over sex-change weddings | Some Anglican priests say they would rather be sued than allow people who have changed their sex to marry in their churches (BBC)
  
  

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March (Web-only) 2004, Vol. 48