Prop 8 Trial Judge "outed"
Just when it looked like we were hitting a lull for a few weeks in the coverage of Perry v. Schwarzenegger, a new story hits the presses. In their Sunday column in the San Francisco Chronicle, Philip...
View ArticleWill President Obama defend DOMA again?
The state of Massachusetts is challenging the Defense Of Marriage Act, claiming it is unconstitutional. Attorney General Martha Coakley is asking for a summary judgment in the case, according to new...
View ArticleWhat we have in common
I've been thinking a lot about one of the arguments in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the Prop 8 case. One of the witnesses for the plaintiff, the "No on 8" side who was an expert on gay issues put on the...
View ArticleReal people
I am breaking my newly-enforced rule that my pieces will have a controversial title in order to bring you this information.This is a universal story with a moral we can all understand and empathize...
View ArticleHUGE Prop. 8 case news - Rekers peripherally involved UPDATE
Well well, look whose views were relied upon in the Prop. 8 case: Dr. Rekers has a less direct link to another high-profile gay rights case: the federal court challenge to a California law banning...
View ArticleRekers more involved in Prop. 8 case than previously known
I wrote a post about George Rekers'involvement in the Prop. 8 case. The diary was based on a short New York Times article which buried the information about Rekers and Prop. 8 near the end of it.Well,...
View ArticlePerry v. Schwarzenegger: the trial ends
Today saw the closing arguments in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the trial to determine the constitutionality of Proposition 8. Or, in the words of the Twitter feed of the anti-equality National...
View ArticleDo you like the Prop. 8 decision?
I need to say right off I'm not affiliated with Chad Griffin's AFER - the people who brought the Prop. 8 lawsuit. I'm just a huge fan, needless to say. But they brought this case and hired all of the...
View ArticleEqual Rights Foundation: Perry v Schwarzenegger decision tomorrow
Via the Equal Rights Foundation: the decision in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the federal court trial to determine the constitutionality of Proposition 8 in California, will be announced tomorrow:The...
View ArticleProp. 8 proponents file hilariously awkward motion
The proponents of Prop. 8 have filed a motion to stay the effects of tomorrow's court decision - which would likely resort in a victory for the equality side. I figured they'd try to get a stay pending...
View ArticleThe psychic wages of straightness
As diaried yesterday by indiemcemopants, the Defendant-Intervenors in the Perry v. Schwarzenegger trial to determine the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8, have filed a motion requesting...
View ArticleJustice Kennedy's Past and the Future of Prop 8
In the wake of his ruling overturning California's Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage, one legal observer concluded Judge Vaughn Walker "is speaking to Justice Kennedy." Slate's Dahlia Lithwick went a...
View ArticleWhy Yesterday's Prop. 8 Decision Matters
By James Esseks, Director, ACLU LGBT & AIDS Project By now you’ve surely heard about yesterday’s smashing victory in the Perry v. Schwarzenegger federal marriage case in San Francisco. It’s a...
View ArticleThe Predictable Attacks on Vaughn Walker
One thing I learned at my law school is that conservative legal arguments comes in three types: (1) worthy arguments with which reasonable people can, even if reluctantly, agree; (2) arguments building...
View ArticleBipartisan call: Let the marriages begin
Judge Walker may have struck down Proposition 8 on Wednesday in a ruling that decimated every single plausible argument against marriage equality, but that doesn't mean that marriages have recommenced....
View ArticleProp 8: Proponents May Lack Standing to Appeal
Last up on the docket yesterday in Perry v. Schwarzenegger is the Plaintiffs' and Plaintiff-Intervenor's Joint Opposition to Defendant-Intervenors' Motion For A Stay Pending Appeal (the...
View ArticlePresident Obama is on the wrong side of history
His experience didn't get him elected; his vision did.He told us of a more perfect union, of an America that, after eight long and painful years of abuse at the hands of the Bush administration, we...
View ArticleGays win fight, progressives try to take it away
Gay people won perhaps our biggest victory in history just a few days ago and we can't even celebrate that. Witness: A story about how we should take the word marriage out of the equation completely...
View ArticleDestroying rights in order to save them
In 1954, the Supreme Court decided in Brown v. Board of Education that segregation of schools was not allowed. The decision stated, rather bluntly, "separate educational facilities are inherently...
View ArticleJustice Scalia is boxed in by Prop 8 ruling
Judge Vaughn Walker's opinion in Perry v Schwarzenegger concludes that California's Proposition 8 (which effectively made homosexual marriage illegal) is unconstitutional under the Due Process Clause...
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