In the wake of North Carolina’s awfulness, I thought I’d share some happy LGBT news. On Wednesday Argentina passed a law that protects citizens’ rights of gender self-determination. From the AP:
No other country has gone so far to embrace gender self-determination. In the United States and Europe, transgender people must [...]
Critics of same-sex marriage often argue that its defenders are guilty of seeking to “redefine” marriage.
It is true that the term “marriage” has traditionally been applied, for the most part, to heterosexual unions specifically (though often polygamous ones, a fact such critics persistently pretend to overlook). But it is also true that the term [...]
Rather than leave them buried in the comments, I thought I would respond to two very good objections to my prior post on same-sex marriage as a new post, especially because I think they are worth preserving as part of the libertarian conversation on the same-sex marriage issue. Both objections are raised in [...]
Let me put my cards on the table:
1. In my ideal world, the state would be out of the marriage business.
2. My ideal world will not be achieved any time soon, if ever.
3. In the world that exists, where the state is involved in marriage, I believe that:
a. The Constitution requires [...]
A question for my libertarian friends who think legalizing same-sex marriage is problematic because it extends the state’s involvement in the institution:
Suppose everyone paid taxes to Social Security but benefits were only available to white folks, leading to someone proposing to make benefits also available to non-whites. Would you argue that was [...]
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