Op-Ed: Marriage Equality and the Meaning of Words

The Huffington Post
November 5, 2009
University of Chicago Professor Geoffrey R. Stone discusses the use of language in the battle over marriage equality: "The real flash point about the word “marriage” is that some people strongly associate the word with their religious understandings...Those with religious objections to calling same-sex unions “marriages” are essentially insisting that the state must adopt their religious definition of a legal concept." [Link]