Rights and Liberties, Fall 2003, Volume 9, No. 1

I confess to having some difficulty understanding the same-sex marriage debate. Maybe it’s because I’m an agnostic secular humanist with a philosophical opposition to marriage (which is always a nice excuse for being single). Maybe it’s because I think for every reason to get married there are three reasons not to. Maybe it’s just because the debate itself doesn’t make any sense.

Just over three years ago, I opened this bulletin's Editorial with these words: "[The dawn of a new millennium is] a good time to consider the status of rights and liberties in our society. Many of us forget that rights and liberties are not one of the obvious benefits of "civilization" but, on the contrary, a human condition enjoyed quite naturally in so called primitive societies, something that must be protected, or won back, from societies 'enjoying' organized government.