In 1958, Richard Loving, a white man, and Mildred Jeter, a black woman, lay in bed in their Virginia home. Their marriage license, issued in the District of Columbia, hung over their bed. They were torn from that bed when a grand jury indicted them for violating Virginia’s anti-miscegenation laws. According to the State Supreme Court of Virginia, these laws [...]
Yes, my friends, marriage is what brings us together today. You see, that blessed arrangement, that dream within a dream, was denied yesterday to same sex couples in my home state of New Jersey by straight-talking savior of the Republican Party Chris Christie. The man who more-or-less singlehandedly cut so much money from the state budget that it actually violated [...]
It’s been a fabulous month for gays. Earlier today, Governor Chris Gregoire signed into law a measure that legalizes same-sex marriage in Washington state. Yesterday, New Jersey’s state Senate passed a bill to recognize same-sex marriage. Last week, California’s Prop 8 ban on same-sex marriage was ruled unconstitutional. With these milestones all happening within days of each other, I cannot [...]
I love weddings, I love open bars at these weddings, and I also love the gays. From that, let it be known that I love gay marriage as much as any other Democrat from California. Hell, I would even like a gay marriage of my own some day. But the debate is consuming the LGBT community’s efforts, while life-saving issues [...]
I’d like to talk about the arguments for and against same-sex marriage – the so-called “merits” of the case. The legal arguments surrounding Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision to strike down proposition 8 are complex and interesting. The political gambles made by Boies and Olson on the plaintiff’s side, and by Walker on the judge’s, are exciting. Nonetheless, the legal aspect [...]
By Ned Shell Argentina, a country that is 92% Catholic and, at least outside of cosmopolitan Buenos Aires and Córdoba, quite conservative (by American standards), has done something only 5 of 50 American states have managed to do after years of lobbying and protesting: legalize gay marriage and child adoption. I’ve spent most of this summer working with the Ministry [...]
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