Showing posts with label #MarriageEquality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #MarriageEquality. Show all posts
1/6/15
10/20/14
Quote of the day, on marriage equality
"I think the Equal Protection Clause does guarantee same-sex marriage."
--Barack Obama
10/18/14
10/13/14
10/10/14
10/8/14
Quote of the day, on the importance of marriage equality
We, as judges, deal so often with laws that confine and constrain. Yet our core legal instrument comprehends the rights of all people, regardless of sexual orientation, to love and to marry the individuals they choose. It demands not merely toleration; when a state is in the business of marriage, it must affirm the love and commitment of same-sex couples in equal measure. Recognizing that right dignifies them; in so doing, we dignify our Constitution.
-- 9th Circuit Court, Federal Judge, Stephen Reinhardt, in striking down Idaho's and Nevada's same-sex marriage bans
9/29/14
Listen to poet Richard Blanco's moving verse on marriage equality, "Until We Could"
This poet, who read his poem at the 2012 inauguration of Barack Obama, continues to excel.
8/4/14
6/18/14
5/14/14
5/10/14
After yesterday's court rulling striking down Arkansas' same-sex marriage ban, marriages may begin there today
5/8/14
5/7/14
Love is breaking out...everywhere
Just this week, this proud and out Navy psychologist proposed to his boyfriend. Love and progress are in the air.
4/28/14
4/21/14
Just another reason we don't give up on anyone: Prop 8 attorney's views are evolving after his stepdaughter came out
The lawyer who argued before the supreme court in favor of upholding California's ban on gay marriage learned while he was handling the case that one of his children is gay and now is helping her plan her wedding with another woman.
Attorney Charles Cooper says his view of same-sex marriage is evolving after having argued in court that gay unions could undermine marriages between a man and a woman.
The revelation is an unexpected footnote in the years-long debate over Proposition 8, the California measure struck down by the supreme court last year. It is also offers a glimpse, through the eyes of one family, of the country's rapidly shifting opinions of gay marriage, with most public polls now showing majorities in favor of allowing the unions.
Cooper learned that his stepdaughter Ashley was gay as the Proposition 8 case wound its way through appellate court, according to a forthcoming book about the lengthy legal battle. And with the supreme court ruling now behind him, Cooper cast his personal opinion on gay marriage as an evolving process.
"My views evolve on issues of this kind the same way as other people's do, and how I view this down the road may not be the way I view it now, or how I viewed it 10 years ago," Cooper said in journalist Jo Becker's book "Forcing the Spring: Inside the Fight for Marriage Equality."
Cooper's words are reminiscent of the language President Obama used throughout his first term to describe his "evolving" views on gay marriage. In 2012, Obama announced publicly that he did, in fact, support the rights of same-sex couples to marry.
4/10/14
4/8/14
4/7/14
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