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Rights talk run amok: the supremacy of the individual

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November 10, 2012 (Breakpoint.org) - Colleen Francis made himself right at home in the locker room at Evergreen College in Olympia, Washington . The forty-five year-old student showered, used the sauna and walked around naked in front of the other people using those facilities. Now if you’re having trouble squaring the name “Colleen” with the male pronoun “himself,” you’re not the only one. Those present in the locker room also had trouble with the combination that the locker room in question was the women’s room and “Colleen” is anatomically a male. Thus when he showers, sits in the sauna, and walks around naked, Francis is exposing himself not only to his fellow students but students from local high schools and families who also use the college’s swimming pool and locker room. Thus, among the females he has exposed himself to are minors, some as young as six. If you’re wondering, “Why doesn’t someone stop Francis,” well, they tried to, and that’s when the story becam

Does sexual fidelity play the same role in same-sex unions?

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English: Maggie Gallagher at the Cato Institute (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Dear Marriage Supporter, The guys at Oxford University Press are no dummies. When they needed someone to make the case against same-sex marriage as part of a Point/Counterpoint series, edited by James Sterba of Notre Dame, they went straight to the top: to one of the best, the brightest and most articulate spokespeople for marriage in America. They asked NOM's own co-founder, Maggie Gallagher , to spar with Prof . John Corvino (who co-authored the book and writes the pro- gay marriage arguments). The resulting book,  Debating Same-Sex Marriage  was released this week, and today I'm heading up to Manhattan to watch the book launch. Live from New York: It's Maggie Gallagher and John Corvino "Debating Same-Sex Marriage." The two of them will be "Conversing" (with a capital C) with David Blankenhorn on the marriage debate: what it means, why it is hard, and why it matt