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The Marriage Bill should strike a balance between preserving non-discriminatory cultural and religious practices and promoting liberal values.
Before colonialism black South Africans viewed sex and morality very differently than today.
Eight countries are projected to be behind 50% of the growth in population over the next three decades. Five are in Africa.
Former president Bourguiba’s standing as father of Tunisian feminism has come under scrutiny.
The U.S. House of Representatives recently voted for a bill that would federally protect same-sex marriage – and 47 Republicans signed on, too. Same-sex marriage isn’t the partisan issue it once was.
As missionaries expanded into Africa, they held a special grudge against polygamy. Here’s how that affected education.
Both men and women play a role in perpetuating attitudes toward sex that are hypocritical and logically inconsistent.
The Nigerian government must design more interventions to improve education, employment opportunities and the economy in order to control the country’s population growth.
A new history book shows how entanglements of race, gender, class and sexuality in South Africa flow from the moral contradictions of the settler colonial state.
Who are the LeBarons, the Mexican-American Mormons who lost nine family members in a massacre on Nov. 4.?
On July 24, 1847, Mormon leader Brigham Young and 146 followers entered Salt Lake City to escape persecution. This history has implications today.
Both South Africa’s courts and its legislature have failed to do their bit in creating a culturally diverse society.
All the world’s major religions are concerned with moral behavior. But research shows little evidence that religious people are more ethical than atheists.
Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism, taught that a righteous man could help numerous women and children go to heaven by being ‘sealed’ in plural marriage. Norms have been revised, but tensions remain.
Although South Africa has taken steps to rid itself of the apartheid-era view of marriage as only heterosexual and monogamous, discrimination against religious marriages persist.
“Love drugs” have their risks, but are also potentially liberating, so people must be free to make their own choices about what works best for them.
If you can now have a same-sex marriage, why not polygamous one?
Researchers show that a sexually transmitted disease similar to gonorrhoea could have got rid of promiscuous behaviour in agricultural societies.
Sex is often viewed as a totally harmonious interaction between a male and female with the same innate goal – to produce offspring. But it is becoming increasingly clear to biologists that the reproductive…
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