From the Washington Blade: The Obama administration will take part in the lawsuit challenging California’s Proposition 8 by filing a friend-of-the-court brief before the Supreme Court, according to a report on Thursday by NBC News’ Pete Williams, The report comes on the deadline day for submitting friend-of-the-court briefs in favor…
Read More »
From The Hill: President Obama’s administration said Friday that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was unconstitutional, filing a brief weeks ahead of scheduled arguments before the Supreme Court. In its brief, the Justice Department said that DOMA, which defined marriage as only between a man and a woman, “violates…
Read More »
From NYLJ: The U.S. Supreme Court will take up California’s ban on same-sex marriage, a case that could give the justices the chance to rule on whether gays have the same constitutional right to marry as heterosexuals. The justices said today they will review a federal appeals court ruling that…
Read More »
“Love on the March” Alex Ross, The New Yorker: Like most gay men, I have been called a faggot a few times. I’ve seen friends talk back to homophobes. But I’d never witnessed anything like this: it had a weird theatrical intensity, as if the young man were being goaded…
Read More »
From The Nation: It wasn’t even close. That’s the unexpected result of the November 6 election. And President Obama and his supporters must wrap their heads around this new reality—just as their Republican rivals are going to have to adjust to it. After a very long, very hard campaign that…
Read More »
See also: World Celebrates Obama’s Win (17)
Read More »
Four more years. twitter.com/BarackObama/st… — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) November 7, 2012 An excellent editorial from the NYT. Here’s an excerpt: President Obama’s dramatic re-election victory was not a sign that a fractured nation had finally come together on Election Day. But it was a strong endorsement of economic policies that…
Read More »
(17)
Read More »