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Tag Archives: Same-sex Marriage

Smoke the Bigots Out of the Closet

Dear President Obama: Please listen to Jon Stewart when he tells you it’s Fucking Chow Time.

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McCain’s wife, daughter back gay marriage movement

Cindy McCain, the wife of 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain, and their daughter Meghan have posed for photos endorsing pro-gay marriage forces in California.
Mrs. McCain appears with silver duct tape across her mouth and “NOH8″ written on one cheek in a photo posted Wednesday to the Web site of NOH8, a gay rights group [...]

Discrimination on Trial, but Not on TV

The trial that started on Monday in San Francisco over the constitutionality of California’s voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage could have been a moment for the entire nation to witness a calm, deliberative debate on a vitally important issue in the era of instant communications. Instead, the United States Supreme Court made it a sad [...]

The Conservative Case For Gay Marriage

Together with my good friend and occasional courtroom adversary David Boies, I am attempting to persuade a federal court to invalidate California’s Proposition 8—the voter-approved measure that overturned California’s constitutional right to marry a person of the same sex.
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Some have suggested that we have brought this case too soon, and that neither the country nor [...]

Feds defy order to provide same-sex benefits

The Obama administration refused Friday to follow a federal judge’s order to provide insurance benefits to the wife of a lesbian court employee in San Francisco and said its hands were tied by a discriminatory law.
“This issue shows exactly why Congress needs to repeal” the law, which prohibits federal benefits to same-sex couples, government lawyer [...]