This Washington Post editorial is the most articulate and consequential piece I have read in weeks regarding the Catholic Church's attempt to use whatever means possible to stem the same-sex marriage movement. Beyond the moral implicatio...
Kerry Eleveld is the Washington Correspondent for The Advocate and was the only reporter from an LGBT outlet to get a sit-down interview with Barack Obama during the 2008 election. She has worked as a journalist for over a decade and cut her teeth editing business journals. Eleveld regularly offers commentary about political developments to news outlets such as The Associated Press, CNN and MSNBC. You can follow Eleveld’s twitter feeds at: http://twitter.com/kerryeleveld.
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Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
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