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		<title>Marriage vote in NY&#8230; what more can we say?</title>
		<link>http://unmarried.org/blog/2009/12/08/marriage-vote-in-ny-what-more-can-we-say/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[beyond same-sex marriage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The topic of same-sex marriage has been covered so many times, there&#8217;s not much more to say.  But I do like the way AtMP supporter and Columbia Law professor Katherine Franke puts it.
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		<title>Maine domestic partnerships have an opportunity to shine</title>
		<link>http://unmarried.org/blog/2009/11/09/maine-domestic-partnerships-have-an-opportunity-to-shine/</link>
		<comments>http://unmarried.org/blog/2009/11/09/maine-domestic-partnerships-have-an-opportunity-to-shine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[beyond same-sex marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[get gov't out of marriage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Election Day we learned that the majority of Maine voters don&#8217;t want to share the word marriage with same-sex couples.   Yet polls show that many are willing to share the rights and responsibilities typically accorded to spouses.  Maine is in the unique opportunity to launch the experiment of truly civil partnerships for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogger agrees: no special status for marriage</title>
		<link>http://unmarried.org/blog/2009/07/06/blogger-agrees-no-special-status-for-marriage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[beyond same-sex marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[get gov't out of marriage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How nice to see this comment from Amanda Marcotte on Alternet:
We could start by untying all the benefits that lure people into marriage and expanding them to all people &#8212; health insurance, hospital visitation rights, tax breaks &#8212; so that married people don&#8217;t get special status over the unmarried.
AtMP has been working towards these very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Activists, lawyers propose moving focus off same-sex marriage</title>
		<link>http://unmarried.org/blog/2009/06/29/activists-and-lawyers/</link>
		<comments>http://unmarried.org/blog/2009/06/29/activists-and-lawyers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[beyond same-sex marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[get gov't out of marriage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Happy day after Pride!  Not too sunburned or hungover, I hope.  How many marriage posters and floats did you see?
As an antitdote, try these three fascinating articles:

in The Nation, Lisa Duggan describes the expansive, progressive strategy that is winning real improvements for everyone in Utah (many thanks to Heather W. for finding this first)
in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More big names want government out of the marriage business</title>
		<link>http://unmarried.org/blog/2009/04/23/more-big-names-want-government-out-of-the-marriage-business/</link>
		<comments>http://unmarried.org/blog/2009/04/23/more-big-names-want-government-out-of-the-marriage-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[get gov't out of marriage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many thanks to AtMP&#8217;s co-founders for sending these clips:
About Ted Haggard
Prior to my crisis, I was for equality under the law no matter how people grouped. Whether it was two old spinsters living together or a homosexual couple or a heterosexual couple, I think it ought to be the same under the law. But prior [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Government out of the Marriage Promotion Business</title>
		<link>http://unmarried.org/blog/2009/01/28/getting-government-out-of-the-marriage-promotion-business/</link>
		<comments>http://unmarried.org/blog/2009/01/28/getting-government-out-of-the-marriage-promotion-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[get gov't out of marriage]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://unmarried.org/blog/?p=88</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The arrival of the new administration in Washington presents opportunities to get government out of a particularly offensive branch of the marriage business: using welfare programs to promote marriage.
In December, AtMP co-authored a letter to HHS Secretary-designate Tom Daschle, urging him to appointment appropriate new leaders for the Administration of Children and Family Services.  We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Year, new realism</title>
		<link>http://unmarried.org/blog/2009/01/06/new-year-new-realism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[adoption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[get gov't out of marriage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps the winter winds are blowing aside some blindfolds, making it easier for opinion leaders to see that bad laws hurt real families.
Senator Bob Barr, in an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, has noticed that &#8220;the heterosexual definition of marriage for purposes of federal laws &#8212;  including, immigration, Social Security survivor rights and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bloggingheads: Ban Marriage?</title>
		<link>http://unmarried.org/blog/2008/12/16/bloggingheads-ban-marriage/</link>
		<comments>http://unmarried.org/blog/2008/12/16/bloggingheads-ban-marriage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[get gov't out of marriage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The two law professors in this video are not suggesting to end the legal status of marriage, just to call it by a new name and make it available to both same-sex and different-sex couples.  Granted, this would achieve one important step forward by recognizing more couples&#8217; relationships.  But nothing the professors said suggests that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get government out of the marriage business</title>
		<link>http://unmarried.org/blog/2008/12/05/get-government-out-of-the-marriage-business/</link>
		<comments>http://unmarried.org/blog/2008/12/05/get-government-out-of-the-marriage-business/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicky</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[get gov't out of marriage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To mark the one-month anniversary of the election, here&#8217;s an unscientific assessment of the impact of Prop 8 and discriminatory ballot measures:
In the past month, at least 18 blogs have discussed getting government out of the marriage business.  In the month before the election, only 6 bloggers were thinking along those lines.
Of course, the public&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Post: withhold marriage from everyone</title>
		<link>http://unmarried.org/blog/2008/12/01/guest-post-withhold-marriage-from-everyone/</link>
		<comments>http://unmarried.org/blog/2008/12/01/guest-post-withhold-marriage-from-everyone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[get gov't out of marriage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nicky asked me if I&#8217;d be willing to give an update on my &#8220;nuclear option&#8221; efforts, and I&#8217;m grateful to be able to share them with you here.
I&#8217;ve been following the same-sex marriage story here in California for the past four years, ever since San Francisco&#8217;s &#8220;Valentine&#8217;s Day Revolution&#8221;, and have over those years read [...]]]></description>
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