Archive for the ‘Gay marriage’ Category

January 13th, 2010

The Political Philosophy of New Jersey

by Jonathan Zasloff
Category: Drug Policy, Gay marriage, Strange world

The state may discriminate against you if you are gay, but if that makes you sufficiently depressed, it must allow you to drown your sorrows with some really good weed.

Posted: Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 at 8:25 pm
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January 10th, 2010

Obama on gay marriage

by Mark Kleiman
Category: Barack Obama, Gay Rights, Gay marriage

One of the things that got me interested in Barack Obama as a Presidential candidate was the answer he gave, in a church venue, sometime in 2007 – I’d be grateful to anyone who can point me to the video – on the question of gay marriage. He said, as I recall:
1. My [...]

Posted: Sunday, January 10th, 2010 at 7:44 pm
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June 21st, 2009

Why should it matter whether same-sex couples can marry (as opposed to having civil unions or registered domestic partnerships)? and why should a mainstream bar association care?

by Lesley Rosenthal
Category: Gay marriage

This weekend I participated in a historic vote by the NYS Bar Association’s House of Delegates to endorse gay marriage legislation. NYSBA is among the first statewide bar associations to back gay marriage and to urge the state legislature to enact the necessary amendment of state law to allow same-sex couples to marry and [...]

Posted: Sunday, June 21st, 2009 at 9:36 pm
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May 28th, 2009

Nudging Proposition 8: What the Court Should Have Done With Same-Sex Marriage

by Jonathan Zasloff
Category: California Politics, Constitutional politics, Gay marriage, Law Notes

How could the California Supreme Court have overturned Prop 8 yet allowed the voters to ban same-sex marriage through a ballot measure — and done so in a principled way? Here’s how.

Posted: Thursday, May 28th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
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February 7th, 2009

Nuremberg Proposition 8

by James Wimberley
Category: Gay marriage

The abominable retroactivity of Proposition 8.

Posted: Saturday, February 7th, 2009 at 3:37 am
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February 1st, 2009

Straightforward?

by Jonathan Zasloff
Category: Gay marriage

When it comes to supporting gay marriage, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. But maybe proportionality is.

Posted: Sunday, February 1st, 2009 at 6:24 pm
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January 30th, 2009

If gays can’t get married, should I get divorced?

by Jonathan Zasloff
Category: Gay marriage

Why should I participate in an institution that reinforces bigotry?

Posted: Friday, January 30th, 2009 at 9:12 am
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December 12th, 2008

Of Prop. H8 and boycotts: response to Maggie Gallegher

by Mark Kleiman
Category: Gay marriage

Supporting Prop. 8 meant retroactively un-marrying more than 10,000 couples. It’s not surprising that some of them, and some of their friends, are just a tad angry.

Posted: Friday, December 12th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
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December 7th, 2008

Blacks and gays: let’s not play “You and him fight”

by Mark Kleiman
Category: Gay marriage

Benjamin Schwartz and Caitlin Flanagan are a pair of troublemakers.

Posted: Sunday, December 7th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
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