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Article: CALIFORNIA'S STATE OF THE UNION TRADITIONAL FAMILY IS ``RATIONAL BASIS''.(Viewpoint)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- March 20, 2005
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Byline: CHRIS WEINKOPF
QUESTION: What do Lawrence Summers, Susan Estrich and gay marriage have in common?
Answer: A lot more than you might think.
Summers, the Harvard University president, created a stir by saying something to the effect that males and females are wired differently. This, while hardly news to anyone with children, was regarded as grand heresy in the academy, where equality and sameness are too often confused.
Then there's Estrich, the syndicated columnist who got into a war of words with Los Angeles Times editors by exposing the dearth of women on the paper's Op-Ed pages. Implicitly, her crusade also boils down to ...