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Latest desperation move by opponents of same-sex marriage: attack the judge who found Proposition (h)8 unconstitutional for having a same-sex partner. But on the theory that gay marriage is bad for straights, what sort of judge *wouldn’t* have had a conflict of interest?
Archive for the ‘Gay marriage’ Category
January 4th, 2011
Category: Gay marriage, Law Notes
Why would a federal court ask state justices to do something that they have no right to do?
August 17th, 2010
Category: Gay marriage, Law Notes
Emily Bazelon asks “do we really want gay marriage to become legal in California because of what’s essentially a technicality?” Uh, yes — that’s EXACTLY what we want.
August 7th, 2010
Category: California Politics, Gay marriage
Some people may wonder how Judge Vaughn R. Walker is holding up under the brutal, often homophobic tirades to which he is now being subjected for his recent ruling on gay marriage. At a Stanford drug policy forum about a decade ago, we were seated together at the closing dinner. The interaction that evening makes [...]
August 7th, 2010
Category: Gay marriage, Handbasket, world going to hell in, Struggle Between Good and Evil, Woolgathering
Occasionally my training as an engineer prompts me to ask, “why aren’t conservation laws more useful in social science?” In economics, everything is held together with bungee cords (which is OK, all physical mechanisms are more or less elastic) but the quantities of everything, including money, seem to be spongy as well. Analysis of gay [...]
August 1st, 2010
Category: Gay marriage
This may be the most innocuous billboard in all of West Hollywood and Beverly Hills. Rev. Hagee may be expecting tornadoes or earthquakes over this. So far, God seems reasonably unconcerned. PS If the apocalypse does come, I’m betting that the nearby Aussibum billboard is more likely to blame.
January 13th, 2010
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.
June 21st, 2009
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 to [...]