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Wednesday, November 26

Art Leonard: Will Florida Officials Flunk the Intelligence Test and Persist in Defending Their Gay Adoption Ban?

Source: Leonard Link by Arthur S. Leonard Full text by permission. Source retains copyright. Florida state officials have been handed a basic intelligence test by Circuit Court Judge Cindy S. Lederman in Miami-Dade County, who ruled this morning that the state's statutory ban on "homosexuals"...

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Saturday, November 22

Commentary: What democray looks like

Source: 365 Gay News by Kevin Cathcart Excerpt: The heart of our legal argument boils down to this: A fundamental liberty of a minority group is being stripped away by a simple majority vote. This makes the equal protection clause of the constitution meaningless. Can you do that in California with one...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog To Form a More Perfect Union: Marriage Equality News on 11-22-2008
Wednesday, November 19

Commentary: Does the Anti-Gay Marriage Backlash Prove that Judicial Review is Ineffective?

Source: The Volokh Conspiracy by Ilya Somin Excerpt: In recent years, leading scholars such as Michael Klarman and Gerald Rosenberg have argued that judicial review is rarely if ever effective in protecting rights that aren't supported by the political branches of government and majority public opinion...

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Tuesday, November 18

Commentary: The NAACP Gets It

Source: Pam's House Blend by Terrance Heath Excerpt: Well, the NAACP has shut my mouth on this one. I was pretty hard on them this summer, when I got wind of a PFOX exhibit at an NAACP event. But it looks like the outcome off the proposition 8 vote has raised some alarm with civil rights groups,...

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Monday, November 17

Opinion: A federal bailout for Prop. 8

Source: Los Angeles Times by Brian E. Gray Excerpt: In 1992, by a 53%-47% split, Coloradans passed an amendment to their state Constitution that repealed laws in Aspen, Boulder and Denver that prohibited discrimination against gays. The amendment barred the state and its political subdivisions from adopting...

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Friday, November 14

California's same-sex marriage case affects all of us

Source: Christian Science Monitor by Kermit Roosevelt Excerpt: What now for California? In May, its Supreme Court announced a right to same-sex marriage. Gays and lesbians rushed to take advantage of the opportunity; by early November, 18,000 such marriages had been performed. But on Nov. 5, they stopped...

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Monday, October 13

Commentary: Marriage Actually

Link: The New Republic by Richard Just Excerpt: Over the weekend, I read the Connecticut Supreme Court's gay marriage decision. It's actually a rather moving document: a cogent defense of gay rights that efficiently demolishes the chief arguments against marriage equality, while offering what...

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Monday, October 13

Viewpoint: For Gay Marriage, Time to Go Beyond the Courts

Link: TIME by John Cloud Excerpt: . . . it's fortunate, in a way, that only one more state supreme court is slated to consider same-sex marriage any time soon. The court in Iowa will hear arguments on the issue in December. Gays will now have to focus on winning marriage equality politically, in...

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Wednesday, July 16

California Supreme Court keeps anti-gay marriage initiative on ballot

Link: Los Angeles Times Excerpt: The California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to remove an anti-gay marriage initiative from the November ballot. Meeting in closed session, the court denied a petition calling for the removal of the initiative, Proposition 8, on the grounds it was a constitutional revision...

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Monday, July 14

Commentary: Gay marriage--Ruling ends second-class citizenship

Link: Tucson Citizen by Andrea Sarvady Excerpt: Did you hear the news? Out there on the "Left Coast," a bunch of activist judges decided to legislate from the bench, ignoring the will of the people by granting homosexuals the right to marry. That's the Golden State for you, familiar with...

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