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Clip recap: All eyes are on Illinois, with less than a week left to pass its marriage equality bill. Meanwhile, public support grows in Tennessee and an equality bill passes the legislature in Nevada, but major obstacles remain in both states. And we’re just one month away from the deadline for a Prop 8 decision. Depending on the ruling, marriage …

During last month’s Supreme Court hearings on Prop 8 and DOMA, the Archdiocese of San Francisco changed their Facebook avatar to a division symbol with a scriptural reference beneath.   The avatar was later deleted along with hundreds of furious comments.  Yesterday the Archdiocese finally responded to media inquiries about the incident. Via San Francisco’s KQED: Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone has been …

“In his dissent in the 2003 Lawrence v. Texas decision that legalized homosexuality, Justice Antonin Scalia warned that if the laws against homosexuality are to be jettisoned, then there would be no principled basis left to proscribe such things as polygamy and incest. He was widely scorned for saying so. Guess what? Yesterday, Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked Olson if gay …

Video by activist Mark S. King. Nice touch with the music when the red-caped Catholic loons appear.

“No one can predict how the Supreme Court will ultimately rule on the Prop 8 case, but based on oral arguments today, it is possible a majority of Justices could rule that the proponents of Prop 8 lack standing and dismiss the case. If the Supreme Court goes the wrong way and rules that there is somehow a ‘constitutional right …

Protect Marriage lead counsel Andy Pugno seems resigned to a narrow loss. “A victory for US would be to return this issue to the voters of the states.”

UPDATE: Here’s the transcript.

SCOTUSblog has issued their first analysis: Much will be written about the Proposition 8 oral argument. The bottom line, in my opinion, is that the Court probably will not have the five votes necessary to get to any result at all, and almost certainly will not have five votes to decide the merits of whether Proposition 8 is constitutional. Several …

And that might be that, folks.

Those paid place-holders knew what they were doing. For those willing to pay to get in, several Washington services will hold a person’s place in line. One company charges $36 per hour, another $50, meaning the cost of a 5-day line stander comes in at $6,000. John Winslow, the operations manager of Linestanding.com, which like most other line standing services …

“Maybe it’s just me, but it seems that some ‘journalists’ covering the Prop 8 case are downright giddy about the possibility of marriage being re-defined by unelected judges. No wonder most of the media coverage of Prop 8 bears no resemblance to the reality that most Americans still favor protecting marriage as the special union of the opposite sexes. “But …

The openly lesbian cousin of Supreme Court Justice John Roberts has secured courtroom seats for tomorrow’s hearing on Proposition 8. “He is a smart man,” she said. “He is a good man. I believe he sees where the tide is going. I do trust him. I absolutely trust that he will go in a good direction.” Podrasky obtained the highly …

The New York Times has posted a handy flow chart.

Today on Face The Nation, hate group leader Tony Perkins dismissed national polls, saying that “the polls that really are the polls that are taken when the people vote on it.”  Note that Perkins says that two states have voted in favor of same-sex marriage when that number is actually four. (Via Good As You)

Speaking this morning on ABC’s This Week, Karl Rove predicted that the Supreme Court will vote in favor of same-sex marriage but leave legalization to the states. “What we may see is a decision here that in essence has, not a 5-4 decision, but a 6-3, 7-2, that says leave it up to the states, in fact we could see …

From today’s New York Times: One of the central questions in the two gay marriage cases to be argued before the Supreme Court this week is whether gays and lesbians are a protected class under the Constitution. Under longstanding principles, government actions that fall heavily on “discrete and insular minorities” historically subject to prejudice and stigma are to be given …

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