Maggie Gallagher, President of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy (www.marriagedebate.com), nationally syndicated columnist, and author of three books on marriage.
Thursday, April 6, 2006 at 6:30 p.m.
Old South Meeting House
Mrs. Gallagher argues that to the only way to win the gay marriage debate is to win the marriage debate: to emerge with a deeper, richer, understanding of marriage as a social and legal institution. In Massachusetts, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled that there is no rational reason why marriage has been almost universally considered a union of husband and wife. Other courts in New York and New Jersey recently disagreed. Why do we have laws about marriage? What is a “civil union”? The debate is not over.
