Leading up to a 2004 debate about same-sex marriage, conservatives shifted their focus away from moral issues and toward arguments about children’s welfare.

Same-sex marriages, in all possible configurations and with all possible motivations, have taken place throughout the history of the United States.

In 1979, sociologist Joseph Harry took a look at what that era's marriage-like relationships between gay men were like.

The connection between civil rights and private property rights as they play out in the 1960s and now.

The view of "traditional marriage" has been under attack since long before anyone imagined state-sanctioned gay and lesbian unions