Category Archives: Marriage

With Prop 8/DOMA being heard by the Supreme Court this week, there are a bunch of people writing things on same-sex marriage. There is the previously-mentioned column by Scott Fujita, NFL linebacker. Author John Scalzi talks Ohio politics. Meanwhile, another … Continue reading →

I have stuff to write about FWA, and a posting to make about believing you can write, but I have told Dev and Lee I will spend the day with them because they need it today, poor fellas. So here … Continue reading →

Putting his policy where his inauguration speech is, Obama instructed the White House to file a brief on the side of marriage equality in the Prop 8 case. The administration said in a legal brief on Thursday that gay and … Continue reading →

Eight years ago, I sat in an office excitedly watching exit polls that showed John Kerry with a lead in Florida and Ohio. By the evening, those exit polls had proven inaccurate enough to leave the states in the GOP … Continue reading →

In my last post, I compared anti-gay-marriage conservatives to Neanderthals, and while this is an emotionally satisfying comparison, it’s not a particularly helpful one in terms of creating dialogue. It’s also not completely accurate. Neanderthals had no choice, no way … Continue reading →

This is pretty awesome. I’ll let the Prez speak for himself: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-announces-his-support-for-same-sex-marriage.html (thanks to all my friends who sent this along!)

As a change from the barrage of story-related posts, here is a heartening development: Maryland’s governor has signed the same-sex marriage bill into law. Opponents are doing what they normally do, which is to try to get the popular vote … Continue reading →

From Washington, the latest state to embrace equality. Wish people would take messages like this more to heart. (Not too long, 4m. SFW unless you are emotional and don’t want to start crying in your cubicle.)

In case you missed it, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the lower court’s ruling that Prop 8 is unconstitutional. It will probably go to the Supreme Court at this point, but the lawyers running the case, who have … Continue reading →