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Will allowing gays to wed revive and
strengthen the institution of marriage? Or will same-sex
marriage undermine matrimony and erode traditional family
values, damaging society in the process?
Come hear a lively and informed
debate on same-sex marriage by journalists and authors
Jonathan Rauch and Maggie Gallagher at 6:30 p.m. on Friday,
April 23, in Edmunds Ballroom, Smith Campus Center (170 E.
Sixth St., Claremont), Pomona College. The debate is open to
the public and is free to anyone with a student ID card
(Claremont Colleges or elsewhere), and is $3 for everyone
else. For more information, call (909) 621-8514.
Jonathan Rauch has been
writing books and magazine articles on ideas, culture, and
public policy since the early 1980s, and he has written on
gay-related topics as an openly gay author since 1991, when,
in an article for The New Republic, he criticized
hate-crimes laws from a gay point of view. Rauch is a
correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, a senior
writer and columnist for National Journal, and a
writer in residence at the Brookings Institution. His latest
book is Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for
Straights, and Good for America. He is the author of
several previous books on public policy, culture, and
economics, including, most recently, Government’s End:
Why Washington Stopped Working. His work has appeared in
The New Republic, The Economist, Harper’s, Reason,
Fortune, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall
Street Journal, and Slate, among other
publications. He is vice president of the Independent Gay
Forum and lives outside Washington, D.C.
Author and nationally syndicated
columnist Maggie Gallagher is perhaps best known for
her sharp, right-leaning social policy analysis of social
trends and conditions in the United States and abroad.
Gallagher is a nationally syndicated columnist with
Universal Press Syndicate and a leading voice in the new
marriage movement (www.marriagemovement.org), which rejects
same-sex marriage. She is the author three books including
(with University of Chicago Prof. Linda J. Waite) The
Case for Marriage: Why Married People are Happier, Healthier
and Better-Off Financially. Her previous books were
The Abolition of Marriage: How We Destroy Lasting Love (Regnery
1996) and Enemies of Eros: How the Sexual Revolution is
Destroying Family, Marriage and Sex (Bonus Books, 1989).
She makes frequent media appearances and lectures on social
issues. She lives in Westchester, New York, with her husband
and two sons.
This event is sponsored by the
Pomona Student Union, the Associated Students of Pomona
College and Pomona College Office of Public Affairs.
Pomona College is one of the
nation’s premier liberal arts institutions, offering a
comprehensive program in the arts, humanities, social
sciences and natural sciences. Its hallmarks include small
classes, close relationships between students and faculty,
and a range of opportunities for student research. Visit
Pomona College on the web at www.pomona.edu.
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