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  • Proponents ask why they have to be with an other-sex partner in order to have access to all of the benefits, protections, and respect that comes with legal marriage.

    Bella DePaulo: Marital Mentality #2: The More Profound Historic Change 2009

  • And am now going to start using the phrase "other-sex marriage" when discussing the issue.

    What's the Connection?: Reports of the Death of the Religious Right Are Premature Debra W. Haffner 2007

  • Designed, with government and Big Pharma backing and funding to penetrate society from a young age, Teen Screen is a catch all for any "mental disease", such as biting your fingernails, shyly looking at other-sex classmates, drinking too much coffee, or unconsciously blurting an "f" word.

    "Are You Crazy?" 2006

  • If there is no legal barrier to blessing such unions (and in particular their sexual component) then such ceremonies can only be seen as "gay marriage" and the institutions (including the State in this instance) will be seen as advocating the position that same-sex unions and other-sex unions are identical in all respects.

    Stand Firm Stand Firm 2010

  • But moreover , engaging poverty and global warming does not mean that evangelicals and even many other so-called progressive religious leaders are supporting marriage equality I wish the press would stop using the term same-sex marriage unless they are willing to use other-sex marriage, civil rights for LGBT persons, and the moral agency of women to make decisions about their reproductive lives – or that those who have embraced AIDS as a global issue, are supporting the availability and distribution of condoms to those who are sexually active.

    Archive 2007-05-01 Debra W. Haffner 2007

  • But moreover , engaging poverty and global warming does not mean that evangelicals and even many other so-called progressive religious leaders are supporting marriage equality I wish the press would stop using the term same-sex marriage unless they are willing to use other-sex marriage, civil rights for LGBT persons, and the moral agency of women to make decisions about their reproductive lives – or that those who have embraced AIDS as a global issue, are supporting the availability and distribution of condoms to those who are sexually active.

    What's the Connection?: Reports of the Death of the Religious Right Are Premature Debra W. Haffner 2007

  • That’s what they want to be able to do, and they’ve gotten germ cells from stem cells, but as far as I know, they haven’t gotten a viable other-sex germ cell from a stem cell.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Giving away the (Iowa) farm: 2007

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