Tag Archives: SCOTUS

United For Marriage has launched a Tumblr page where they’ll be posting photos and videos of the rallies taking place all over the nation, including at the Supreme Court.  I’ll be pulling items from there for JMG, but you should bookmark the site to get the full reports. RELATED: Tomorrow there will be a counter-protest of the Osmond Family hate …

“I think we’re going to win these cases. But say the worst happens and we lose in a broad way – that means that the Court somehow does a Roe, a Roe v. Wade, on marriage and says that all these state constitutional amendments are overturned, gay marriage is now a constitutional right – well, we’re going to press forward …

Via press release posted to the official state government website of crackpot NY Sen. Ruben Diaz: New York State Senator Reverend Ruben Diaz (D-NY) will lead the all-night vigil of thirty (30) buses sponsored by the National Organization for Marriage bound for Washington, D.C. to join the March for Marriage demonstration in front of the United States Supreme Court on …

Voiceover by Matt Baume.

“Whether it was ACT UP organizing civil disobedience at the height of the government ignorance of the AIDS epidemic in the late ’80s, or Get Equal members chaining themselves to the White House fence to push the president on ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’ it took brave people who put their reputations, their privacy, their futures, their jobs, their families and …

Via press release from New York City Pride: NYC Pride announced that it has selected and confirmed Edith Windsor, Harry Belafonte and Earl Fowlkes as Grand Marshals for the 44th annual NYC LGBT Pride March. These individuals represent dedication, greatness and inspiration within the LGBT community. Edith Windsor will be taking her fight against DOMA all the way to the …

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 …

“The Supreme Court cases and their resolutions indeed matter. If the court doesn’t dismantle the Defense of Marriage Act, there’s no telling how many more years will pass before this repugnant 1996 law tumbles in some other way and before gay and lesbian couples married in states that allow such weddings are treated equally under federal law.  “And the court …

Visit United For Marriage for event locations and details.

Via Andy Towle: “A line has already begun forming at the Supreme Court to hear arguments on Proposition 8 and DOMA which are next week on Tuesday and Wednesday. The line apparently began forming yesterday.” Reportedly this is the earliest a line has ever formed to hear a Supreme Court case, including for Obamacare. UPDATE: JMG reader John tips us …

Three months ago now-retired Prop 8 Judge Vaughn Walker emailed Ted Olson to ask whether he should attend next week’s oral arguments at the Supreme Court. Armed (somehow) with a copy of that email, Protect Marriage is claiming that Walker’s request demonstrates “the cozy relationship between Walker and our opponents, casting even more doubt on the legitimacy of Walker’s one-sided …

“Dear Joe, In a few days, on March 26th, NOM along with over 40 pro-family partners will March for Marriage in our nation’s capital. We are running out of time. We still have many, many churches that want to organize buses for their congregants to attend the March, but do not have the money to fund them. Will you give …

NOM’s arch-enemy and 2012 GOP presidential candidate Fred Karger is running the above ad on the Washington Post’s site for the next five days.  I ran into Fred in the lobby of Broadway Backwards on Monday night and he mentioned that he’s just moved to Manhattan.  Hit the link if you’d like to kick in for his web campaign.

From the Family Research Council’s prayer team, which is asking God to make Ted Olson and David Boies present their Supreme Court arguments “in an inept, confusing, and unconvincing way.” For Bible-believing Christians this assault on marriage is not just against society. It is an assault against Jesus Christ, Himself. Whatever the court decides, “Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today …