Same Sex Marriage Debate

Should gay and lesbian couples be allowed to marry legally? Author and philosophy professor Richard D. Mohr proposes that giving same-sex couples equal rights is just another step in a longer ongoing evolution of marriage as an institution. Attorney and legal scholar Dwight G. Duncan argues that “gay marriage” is simply another attempt to normalize homosexual behavior.

Author and public intellectual, Richard D. Mohr is one of the leading gay thinkers in the country and one of the country’s leading advocates for gay marriage. He is the author of “Gays/Justice: A Study of Ethics, Society and Law,” “Gay Ideas: Outing and Other Controversies,” and “A More Perfect Union.”  His latest work is “The Long Arc of Justice: Lesbian and Gay Marriage, Equality and Rights.”

Dwight Gerard Duncan is a professor at the Southern New England School of Law.  He is a leading conservative authority on bioethics, legal ethics and constitutional law, and has been involved in the ongoing legal debates on gay marriage. Duncan is the principal co-author of the Supreme Court briefs on the prevailing side of Hurley v. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Organization (1995).