I have no problem with defining marriage as existing only between a man and a woman.  If fundamentalists believe that marriage is between a man and a woman, fine, let them have the term. But then the word needs to apply only to religious recognition of a relationship. If marriage must be defined as strictly [...]

There has been an evident strategy of preserving the “dignity” of the Catholic Church at all costs. It apparently never occurred to Church officials that defending children and cooperating with the prosecution of sexual predators would be a far more effective way of maintaining Church integrity than protecting pedophiles and stonewalling investigations of their heinous [...]