The justices heard feisty arguments in Denver-area business... Colorado's Anti-Discrimination Act bars businesses open to... legalizing gay marriage nationwide. President Joe Biden's...
I seem to have made an unexpected midlife career move, and no, it isn’t lucrative. After almost 20 years of standing on a soapbox for gay marriage, I am standing on another soapbox making the case for tolerating people who oppose same-sex marriage. The other day, I joined 57 other supporters of gay marriage in a public statement called “Freedom to Marry, Freedom to Dissent: Why We Must Have Both.” You can read it here. You can even sign it here. I won’t repeat that argument. But I want t...
same-sex marriage ends Wednesday with closing arguments. The outcome could have wide-ranging... away anti-gay-marriage laws throughout the nation. But he could issue a narrower ruling, one...
Texas can ban same-sex marriage, Abbott argues, because the state has a legitimate interest in promoting procreation, a biological feature of the pairing of men and women. “Because same-sex relationships do not naturally produce children, recognizing same-sex marriage does not further these goals to the same extent that recognizing opposite-sex marriage does.” · Abbott argues that Texas should ban same-sex marriage so outcomes can be studied and compared to states where it’s legal. “[S]ame-sex marriage has not existed long enough to ge ...
Scholarship Repository University of Minnesota Law School Articles Faculty Scholarship 2005 Bad Arguments Against Gay Marriage Dale Carpenter University of Minnesota Law School, dalecarp...
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine's ethics panel fined a national anti-gay marriage group more than $50,000 on Wednesday and ordered it to reveal the donors who backed its efforts to repeal the state's g...
The U.S. Supreme Court could rule any day on challenges to two laws blocking legal recognition for same-sex marriages – the federal Defense of Marriage Act and California's voter-approved Proposition 8 – but advocates for polyamorous couples say "marriage equality" for that minority group is unlikely in the immediate future. Anita Wagner Illig, a longtime polyamory community spokesperson who operates the group Practical Polyamory, is unsure of the direct impact of a ruling that would legaliz...
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By Irin Carmon, Irin Carmon ; Next week, the justices of the Supreme Court will hear arguments for and against marriage equality. But hundreds of people have already tried to help the justices make up their collective mind by filing amicus briefs, which are "friend of the court" documents that offer unsolicited advice or information about the issues at stake in the case. Some of the briefs against national recognition of same-sex marriage get pretty creative — from arguing that it would lead to nearly a million abortions to claiming it would ...
Rather, he sounds like a man who has listened to all the arguments against gay marriage... invalidating anti-miscegenation laws in Loving v. Virginia. In his opinion, Posner makes these...