As national opinion continues to become more supportive of same-sex marriage, it's worth once again remembering how frequently it was said that Goodridge was a disaster for the same-sex marriage movement. Generally, ignoring advice from your enemies that you unilaterally disarm is a sound principle.
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Sam Arora is apparently the latest politician who studied how the historical reputation of Orval Faubus evolved and decided he'd like to be remembered similarly.
As Lithwick says, the only problem with the Obama administration's actions is that it took too long.
The funniest reaction to the Obama administration's salutary decision to not defend the constitutionality of Section 3 of DOMA comes, needless to say, from Jeff Goldtsein: Of course, he doesn’t get to determine that – it was passed by the legislature and signed into law...
The Obama administration is refusing to defend this constitutionality of DOMA as it applies to legally married same-sex couples. Sometimes, elections can have positive consequences!
This is academic inside baseball, but since that's obviously a disproportionate percentage of our audience, I'd thought I'd give some publicity to the issue here. The political science journal Gender.
I'll have to call this for the former about 30 seconds into the first round.
The quality of justifications of anti-gay and lesbian rights bigotry from our particularly inept trolls vs. The quality of justifications of anti-gay and lesbian rights bigotry made by actual elected.
...World's Worst Deliberative Body rejects DREAM ACT by 55-41 majority. ...Joe Lieberman -- Joe Lieberman! -- gives nice, concise pro-DADT repeal speech. World's biggest asshole John McCain -- having railed.
When dealing with the contemporary United States Senate, I would have thought not. And yet the stand-alone DADT repeal whose chances for passage I had (with good reason, I think) pegged at "zilch" seems to be an odds-on favorite to pass. My official position, I...
In recent weeks, some commenters have instructed me that DADT repeal was a done deal. I never understood this, since Collins's position all along has been consistent: she'll vote for.
Nobody possibly could have predicted that getting Susan Collins's "support" for DADT would involve procedural compromises that would allow the explicit repeal opponents in her conference to kill the bill. .