I can understand the journalistic conventions that avoid characterizing particular views during disputes, but I must admit being amused by the opening paragraph about this story about now-resigned NYU law lecturer Thio Li-ann:A Singapore law professor who was to teach a human rights course at...
gay and lesbian rights
The Obama administration's ongoing inaction with respect to the unpopular, unjust, and contrary to national security DADT policy is indeed a disgrace:In all of this, nothing is more infuriating than.
I assume that many of you have heard that Proposition 8 has survived judicial review (but isn't being applied retroactively.) I think the decision was both inevitable and probably correct.
It looks like as long as the New Hampshire legislature is willing to add some superfluous religious freedom exemptions, John Lynch will sign the legislation. Works for me. And I think there's a strategic lesson here: just add some language to legislation ensuring that things...
The Obama administration really needs to end the policy. It's both immoral and bad for the country, and the idea that it's going to me a major votimg issue in.
In yet another manifestation of the massive backlash against Goodridge, which set back same-sex marriage rights for decades, Maine has ended its denial of fundamental rights to same-sex couples. Hopefully.
Although I participate, I rarely link, but this week's results for the National Journal bloggers poll are kind of interesting. Leftish bloggers overwhelmingly support the idea that the Democratic Party should support gay marriage, and rightish bloggers are pretty deeply divided as to what the...
Apparently, America's Moral Sage Rick Warren was too "exhausted" to appear on This Weak. This exhaustion seems to have been caused by his straining to come up with a good.
Neither house of Iowa's legislature has the slightest interest in a constitutional amendment overriding the state Supreme Court's perfectly plausible holding that denying same-sex couples marriage rights violates the state's.
Rather than continue the argument in comments, a few responses to Paul's arguments against Varnum:It's worth distinguishing between two arguments that Paul seems to be shifting between, one of which is true but trivial and one of which is potentially interesting but (at best) unsupported....
I expressed hope earlier in the week that Vernont governor Jim Douglas wouldn't veto legislation granting same-sex marriage rights that is poised to pass both houses of the state legislature.
Barney Frank's recognition of Antonin Scalia's contempt for gays and lesbians has gotten predictable pushback from the likes of Fox News and Ann Althouse. The latter asserts that Frank is.