Same Sex Unions Redux

A few posts back I put out a call for some lectures / audio that covered the same basic points as the column I linked.

Petr responded by pointing to the following:

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Mr. Blankenhorn shares his twenty years of research on marriage, with some thought-provoking conclusions about marriage.

Mr. Blankenhorn answers tough questions from a panel of Dartmouth alumni and faculty. The panel was comprised of (R to L): Same-sex marriage advocate Kurt Nelson of the Tucker Foundation, advisor to Dartmouth multi faith programs. Kent Dahlberg, Campus minister and member Campus Crusade for Christ Tom Wilson, Dartmouth graduate, 1966, diversified farmer, decorated Army Captain and Veteran of the Vietnam war.

Mason C. also wrote in and pointed to this piece at the EPPC:

The Question of Marriage
A Lecture by Hadley Arkes

In this lecture, Professor Hadley Arkes explained how the most serious challenge in principle to the traditional laws governing marriage in fact reveals the deeper flaws in the argument for same-sex marriage.

AUDIO RECORDING OF THIS EVENT

Event audio, part one (MP3 format, 41 megabytes, 75 minutes)

Event audio, part two (MP3 format, 2 megabytes, 4 minutes)

Hadley Arkes (full bio here) is an EPPC Senior Fellow, and the Edward Ney Professor American Institutions at Amherst College. His most recent book is Natural Rights and the Right to Choose (Cambridge University Press, 2002).

Thanks!!