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No news is actually excellent news
It’s not that nothing happened…but today, when the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States decided not to take up any of the pending cases on same-sex marriage, as they were expected to, the...
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Gay marriage news, the Anglo-American edition
It was only in passing that I mentioned last month’s election results that put another four states on the side of the angels in the fight to legalize gay marriage. There’s been an important development...
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Stand by for American history
The United States Supreme Court hears arguments this week in two cases involving same-sex marriage that could make civil rights history. For those who can get beyond a knee-jerk reaction to the very...
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SCOTUS dumps DOMA: fair, simple, American
Brown v. Board of Education; United States v. Windsor: do they belong together? Yes they do: today’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the Windsor case is just that historic. In a very specific and...
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It’s a good news/bad news Friday
The good news comes from the Supreme Court of the United States, which has decided that it will hear arguments on whether or not same-sex couples have a right to marry. This New York Times story...
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Equal protection: it’s what we do here at the ol’ USA
The first time I wrote about gay marriage rights here was more than four and half years ago (“Equal justice for all: the gay rights tide has turned,” Oct. 15, 2010) and the kernel of the argument was...
View ArticleFundamental dishonesty
It wasn’t a “driveway moment” because I wasn’t in my driveway, I wasn’t sitting in the car listening to the radio to hear the end of a story that had sucked me in. No, I was still on the road headed...
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