Q: What are your feelings about "commitment ceremonies" -- would love to have some down-to-earth ideas. In today's world there are a lot of couples living together without the benefit of marriage. I ...

The recent Charleston church slayings underscored symbols’ power to carry and alter civic discourse, if not shift our communal sense of self. The Supreme Court’s confirmation that the Constitution ...

Marriage is for flaunting. That’s what Andrew Cherlin said in an op-ed in the New York Times. Cherlin, author of The Marriage-Go-Round, has been studying marriage for decades. In contemporary American ...

Uh-oh, someone alert the Traditional Values Coalition, because marriage is on the decline. The percentage of married individuals in the U.S. is at a record low, with only 51% of adults 18 and over ...

Sen. Scott Dibble, right, and his husband, Richard Leyva, during the House gay marriage vote last Thursday. MinnPost’s journalists are out in the community to report on the things that are happening ...

Math has never looked so political. During the Supreme Court hearings on the issue last week, many supporters of same-sex marriage posted "=" symbols in place of their profile pictures on Facebook and ...