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COLUMN: Honoring LGBT adoption

By Tristan Fitzpatrick · Tuesday, March 8,2016 11:01 p.m.

On Monday the Supreme Court voted unanimously that states have to honor adoptions by gay parents that move across state lines, according to the Los Angeles Times. The Alabama Supreme Court had previously denied one of the plaintiffs in the case parental rights after her partner had denied her former spouse’s right to visit the children, wrote David Savage of the Times. I support the Court’s decision, but it does raise questions about policies regarding gay families in the United States.

COLUMN: On the decline of American Idealism

By Jacob Worrell · Tuesday, March 8,2016 11:01 p.m.

A recent column that appeared in the New York Times suggests that “American idealism” is failing, citing a number of examples from this season’s presidential candidates and a few dismal facts and figures about the general state of our country in support of its claim. The columnist claimed that “we are witnessing the dissolution of an idea that was once America.” The way it is described in the article, these ideals are crucial to the survival of our society, the “center” around which our culture revolves.