Tag Archives: SCOTUS

Lambda Legal On Prop 8

More infographics. On Monday the Supreme Court will issue its next round of rulings.  There’s no hint as to whether the marriage cases might be unveiled in that round.

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Another Positive Marriage Poll

You’ll have to embiggen the above image to see the details, but here’s the gist of the latest Bloomberg Poll: More than half of Americans support allowing same-sex couples to marry, endorsing the goal of gay-rights activists as the U.S. Supreme Court this month prepares to rule on the issue for the first time. Fifty-two percent say they back giving …

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Hate Groups Diss Gay Ark Painting

Gay artist Paul Richmond has created the above painting titled “Noah’s Gay Wedding Cruise: MarriageEvolved Edition.”  Among the “drowning sinners” are Ann Coulter, former Sen. Larry Craig, Oklahoma state Rep. Sally Kern, and Westboro founder Fred Phelps. Saved on the ark are Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi, Elton John and David Furnish, and Joshua and Steve Snyder-Hill, the founders …

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AFER Graphic On Prop 8 Outcomes

The Supreme Court is expected to issue its ruling this month. Rulings come on Mondays, so the next possible date is June 10th.

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Internal Audit Eviscerates Regnerus Study

Today the Southern Poverty Law Center published an interview with an auditor of the infamous Regnerus study on gay parenting, which has been widely criticized for its transparently anti-gay motives, its methodological flaws, and its funding from anti-gay groups. Since its publication in Social Science Research, the Regnerus study has been cited in anti-gay SCOTUS briefs, has been parroted almost …

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Archbishop Timothy Dolan Issues Call For Anti-Gay Action In Advance Of SCOTUS Rulings On Prop 8 And DOMA

In his role as the head of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Archbishop Timothy Dolan has issued a directive for all parishes to insert the above message into Sunday bulletins.  David Badash writes at New Civil Rights Movement: As of Friday night, New York City has been home to nine anti-LGBT violent hate crimes this month, and 27 …

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Catholic Bishops: Please Pray And Fast That SCOTUS Rejects Gay Marriage

“For the first time in our nation’s history, the Supreme Court is considering two cases about whether ornot marriage should be redefined to include two persons of the same sex. These cases involve the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and California’s Proposition 8, both of which define marriage as the union of one man and one woman.The Court is …

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DOMA Introduced 17 Years Ago Today

DOMA Project founder Lavi Soloway tells me via email: “We used 53 days as our countdown because that is the maximum number of days left in the Court’s term. The decision can come sooner.”

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Schlafly: Pray Against Gay Marriage

“The Supreme Court will hand down its decision in June, and I cannot predict what the Court will do. The Court could uphold marriage as God defined it and as we have respected it since before the Pilgrims landed on the Atlantic coast centuries ago. Or the Court could redefine marriage, which would dramatically change hundreds of U.S. laws and …

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SCOTUS Ruling On Foreign Suits May Hurt Ugandan Case Against Scott Lively

The Supreme Court has ruled in a case that may set a precedent regarding the crimes against humanity lawsuit brought by Ugandan LGBT activists against Scott Lively. The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Wednesday in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum that nothing in the Alien Tort Statute of 1789 rebuts the US presumption against extraterritoriality and that suits challenging torture …

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Tea Party Leader: Pray That GOD Confuses SCOTUS Or We’ll Go To Jail

“Now I am fully aware that the Left monitors our calls and I have no doubt that I likely will be the subject of derision for saying something like this, but I’m praying at best God will confuse the minds of our Supreme Court that they’ll simply, as Bob alluded, punt on the issue of standing and give you and …

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Archdiocese Of San Francisco Responds To Flap About Anti-Gay Facebook Avatar

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 …

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ADF Has The SCOTUS Sadz

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Brian Brown On Meet The Press

Hate group leader Brian Brown appeared on Meet The Press yesterday to predict victory at the Supreme Court. Because North Carolina. Also on the panel was Rob Reiner, Peggy Noonan, and Al Sharpton.

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Rush Limbaugh: We’ve Lost On Marriage

We’re sure his sofa is thrilled!

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Liberty Counsel Attacks BLAG

Liberty Counsel head Mat Staver is ever so pissed at the GOP legal team that defended DOMA before the Supreme Court. The merits of the traditional marriage argument are strong in both cases, according to Staver, but he was not at all impressed by the oral presentation in defense of Proposition 8 by attorney Charles Cooper. “Cooper did a terrible …

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Homosexuality = Contraception = Mutual Masturbation = The DOMA Sadz

“Is Homosexual activity disordered? You better believe it. But so is contraceptive heterosexual activity since it is no longer ordered per se to procreation. In fact, it is rightly argued that contraceptive sex is really just mutual masturbation, it is not true or ordered human sexual activity at all. It is disordered, for it is not ordered to its proper …

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Maggie Gallagher On SCOTUS

The interview took place on Wednesday.

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A Simplified SCOTUS Transcript

A lot more fun to read than the official version.

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Kate Kendell: DOMA Is Doomed

“I agree with most of the commentary so far: it looks like DOMA is doomed. Justices Ginsburg, Breyer, Kagan, and Sotomayor made plain their view that the federal government’s refusal to recognize the marriages of same-sex couples simply because they are same-sex couples is not justified by any legitimate rationale. Justice Kennedy, the fifth and deciding vote, also expressed the …

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