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Cardinal William Joseph Levada, who was embroiled in several pedophile-shielding scandals and was once second only to the Pope in the Catholic hierarchy, has been arrested for DUI while on vacation with “priest friends” in Hawaii. The Hawaii Tribune-Herald reports: “I regret my error in judgment. I intend to continue fully cooperating with the authorities,” Levada said in an email …

Via the Honolulu Star-Advertiser: The Hawaii Supreme Court has dismissed a legal challenge led by State Rep. Bob McDermott to the state’s Marriage Equality Act. Ruling that McDermott and other plaintiffs were not harmed or injured by the 2013 law, Supreme Court justices said they had no standing to challenge the law, according to a press release from the Attorney …

The Christianist crusade of Hawaii state Rep. Bob McDermott comes to a head today. Hawaii’s Supreme Court will be hearing oral arguments in a state Republican representative’s lawsuit challenging the gay marriage law. While the Legislature was considering the bill last year, Rep. Bob McDermott tried to stop the state from issuing any marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The circuit …

Crackpot Hawaii GOP state Rep. Bob McDermott, who presided over the most vicious anti-gay marriage hearings we’ve seen (and we’ve seen a lot of them), has won his battle to bring the issue before the state Supreme Court even though same-sex marriage has been legal there for almost a year. On Dec. 18, the state’s high court will hear oral …

Today’s oral arguments before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals begin at 1PM local time in San Francisco. The court has wisely decided to stream the proceedings over YouTube, which should provide for relatively glitch-free viewing. Follow along at the Twitter hashtag #9thCircuit.

Clip recap: A massive victory for equality in Wisconsin and Indiana, with one of the most strongly-worded decisions yet. A judge in Louisiana has ruled against marriage equality, but there are some problems with his ruling. There are major oral arguments this week in multiple states, and more cases move closer to consideration by the US Supreme Court.

Today’s the big day in San Francisco: On September 8, 2014, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will hear oral arguments in the Hawaii, Idaho and Nevada gay marriage cases. The arguments will begin at 1 p.m. in Courtroom One of the James R. Browning U.S. Courthouse, 95 7th St., San Francisco. The court strongly encourages …

“Back in November of 2013, Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie called a special session to legalize same-sex ‘marriage, instead of giving voters a voice. Rather than put the issue on the ballot, as thousands of people asked for, he fast-tracked the bill through the legislature. Unfortunately for Abercrombie, he may have stopped Hawaiians from voting on marriage, but he couldn’t stop …

Equality Case Files adds: “Reinhardt wrote majority in Prop 8 case and SmithKline (latter held sexual orientation must withstand heightened scrutiny). Berzon joined Reinhardt in SmithKline. Gould wrote majority in Witt v. Air Force.” Arguments in the three cases begin at 4PM in San Francisco on next Monday.

Clip recap: Anti-gay attorneys took a beating before the Seventh Circuit last week, trying and failing to defend marriage bans before a panel of hostile judges. Now all eyes are on the Supreme Court to see which cases they’ll take up in their fall session. There’s another major marriage argument coming up in a few days. And the National Organization …

Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie yesterday declared that he lost this month’s reelection primary because he had called a special legislative session on same-sex marriage. Republicans are allowed to vote for Democrats in Hawaii’s open primary, and Abercrombie said they chose to vote against him because of his support for gay marriage and because they think his party rival, state Sen. …

Via press release from NCLR: On September 8th the Court will hear oral arguments beginning at 1 p.m. Pacific at the James R Browning US Courthouse, 95 7th Street, San Francisco, to laws banning marriage equality in Idaho, Nevada, and Hawaii. The National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) and Boise, Idaho attorneys Deborah A. Ferguson and Craig Durham of Ferguson …

Hawaii state Rep. Bob “Crazy Eyes” McDermott has apparently finally won one of his many crackpot crusades. Hawaii is making its sex education classes for middle school students opt-in, responding to critics by giving parents responsibility to affirm they want their children to be taught the course. The Department of Education said Friday that the shift from an opt-out policy …

Hawaii Civil Beat reports: The Hawaii Catholic schools office, which supervises three dozen Roman Catholic private schools in the state, has just approved a new contract that says teachers can be fired if they engage in homosexual activity or marry someone of the same sex. The contract goes on to list a wide array of actions and behaviors that would …

Losing all those attempts to stop gay marriage wasn’t the last we were going to hear from crackpot GOP Hawaii state Rep. Bob McDermott, who is now trying to get the state to yank a sex education program. Because it mentions homosexuality. “The program normalizes a homosexual lifestyle and anal sex, while failing to warn students of the extreme dangers …

Hawaii GOP state Rep. Bob McDermott was the undeniable crackpot star of his state’s ugly “people’s filibuster” against same-sex marriage. And yesterday a state court once again shot down his attempt to overturn the bill. First Circuit Judge Karl Sakamoto ruled Wednesday that the Hawaii Marriage Equality Act of 2013 is constitutional under both the state and federal constitutions. Hawaii …

Hawaii Family Advocates, one of the hate groups that helped organize that state’s now-infamous “citizens’ filibuster” against same-sex marriage, is once again rallying their troops. Tomorrow the group’s supporters plan to descend upon a Hawaii House hearing on a student anti-discrimination bill. From the text of the bill: [[]§302A-1001[]] Student bias. No person in the State, on the basis of …

Yesterday Michelangelo Signorile interviewed Hawaii GOP state Rep. Bob McDermott, the anti-gay star of those horrible debates, who is still trying to use the courts to overturn the law. Hit the link for more from the interview.

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