California voters on Election Day approved Proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage in the state. News of the proposition's passage caused protests like this one in Los Angeles on Sunday.
(Afton Almaraz/Associated Press)
Jeff Jacoby
Playing the race card on gay marriage
California voters on Election Day approved Proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage in the state. News of the proposition's passage caused protests like this one in Los Angeles on Sunday.
(Afton Almaraz/Associated Press)
Declining to change the timeless definition of marriage deprives no one of "the civil rights once denied" to blacks, and it is an absurdity to claim otherwise. (Full article: 751 words)
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