Search Publications
Search through our comprehensive archive of publications on marriage, family, and civil society
Found 66 results
Can You Handle the Truth?
Imagine a world in which blue eyes are illegal. People still live in countries where simply having blue eyes can lead to imprisonment or death. As a result, blue-eyed people face ferocious persecution.
Can Gay Wedlock Break Political Gridlock? A Debate
(This article includes a reply by David Blankenhorn, William Galston, Jonathan Rauch, and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead.) In the divisive, partisan political debates in D.C., the term "grand bargain" refers to a deal in which each side gives up a dearly held position to get what they want. Democrats ac...
A Way Forward for LGBT and Religious Liberty Rights
The problem with continuing the culture war along these lines is that all the fighting might prevent both sides from achieving anything – which would be tragic, since both sides stand for important values. It's simply inaccurate to say that gay rights and religious freedom can't co-exist in Am...
'Loot and marriage' ethic infects polite society
Beyond the Culture Wars
Evangelicals, the last gay-marriage holdouts
Here's How 9 Predictions About Gay Marriage Turned Out
How We Changed Our Thinking on Gay Marriage
It's unstoppable: Same-sex marriage is coming to the U.S.
Moderates Want More Marriage—of Any Kind
New group formed to 'Make marriage achievable for all who seek it'
David Myers on a Third Way Approach to Marriage
Can Gay Wedlock Break Political Gridlock?
Suddenly, it's in both parties' interests to fight the broader decline of marriage. Here's the case for a "marriage opportunity" agenda.
Reading the Paper With Andrew Solomon
American culture just shifted a bit with LDS Church's statement
In American religious life, something interesting just happened. Last week, leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, long viewed as opponents of gay rights, publicly opened a dialogue about how to balance needed expansion of legal protections for gays and lesbians with reasonable ...
Don't give up on marriage now
And consider this new-coalition possibility: Gays and lesbians, having fought bravely and successfully for the right to marry, can now by their leadership and example help the nation as a whole to rediscover marriage's promise. But how sad if, on the very eve of their astonishing victory for marriag...