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Daily Archives: November 4th, 2009

Is Marriage Saved?

  CONSIDERING yesterday’s defeat of same-sex marriage in Maine, and the overwhelming tide of resistance by voters in states across the nation, could it be that this insidious campaign, this most quixotic of all domestic revolutions, has lost its momentum? Is it possible defenders of marriage have new reason to be buoyant and hopeful? Rose, a lesbian who is politically conservative, [...]

Tree Lovers Speak

  A 400-year-old Connecticut oak, birches in Vermont, a lost pear tree of childhood, and the ancient sentinels of the South American tropics. Readers eloquently describe their favorite trees here.   The Granby Oak

Clothing, Then and Now

  LYDIA Sherman writes in response to the previous post about her blog: I wanted to do a PowerPoint presentation to a group of women on the subject of clothing. I was going to say, “How did we get from this?”     “To this?”  :  from www.allposters.com

A Victory for Children and Freedom

  VOTERS in Maine yesterday overturned a new law legalizing same-sex marriage, making Maine the 31st state to reject homosexual marriage by popular vote. In every state in which same-sex marriage has been put to a vote of the people, it has lost. Because of Maine’s proximity to Vermont, New Hampshire and Connecticut, where same-sex marriage has been approved [...]