Robert Oscar Lopez is the author of The Colorful Conservative and Johnson Park. His academic work is posted at http://textontrial.blogspot.com, while his fiction is posted at http://wildwestcoconut.blogspot.com.
Both the majority opinion in last summer's same-sex marriage case and recent public statements point to a troubling lack of coherence in Justice Anthony Kennedy's thinking.
Date posted: 2015-12-21
Underground movements in England and France are beginning to counter the global LGBT ideology that has entrenched itself in the governments of First-World nations
Date posted: 2014-04-27
Single-parenting and divorce have always been understood as a breakdown of the married mom and dad ideal, but the demand to view same-sex parenting as "normal" imposes a silence on children about the wound caused by the loss of one parent or the other.
Date posted: 2014-01-09
During oral arguments on Prop 8, Justice Kennedy alluded to the views of children of same-sex couples as if their desires and concerns are identical to and uncritical of their parents' decisions. But the reality is far more complicated.
Date posted: 2013-06-08
Whatever same-sex marriage is, that's not what gays are after. They are after a symbolic vehicle that can make them equal to people who can do something they cannot -- procreate.
Date posted: 2013-06-08
The children of same-sex couples have a tough road ahead of them - I know, because I have been there. The last thing we should do is make them feel guilty if the strain gets to them and they feel strange.
Date posted: 2013-02-12
Unlikely characters, including gay men, are leading the French people in protest against redefining marriage. A repeating refrain is "the rights of children trump the right to children." Americans should follow their example of mobilizing across party lines.
Date posted: 2013-02-11