One of my previous posts led me down an interesting mental rabbit hole. How many gay people are there, compared to straight people? It seems to me that the answer may be smaller than I’d ever thought. Particularly because some… Continue Reading
It’s entirely fair to ask Barack Obama what he thinks about same-sex marriage. It is not difficult to foresee President Obama called upon to sign or veto a bill repealing the Federal Defense of Marriage Act. Someone who thinks this… Continue Reading
To call someone a “hypocrite” is usually a pretty bad thing. No one enjoys being called that and it seems to be a fairly stinging sort of insult. For instance, Senators Larry Craig and David Vitter are both “family values”… Continue Reading
A challenge to the Defense of Bigotry Initiative has been lodged. I think it should be rejected, for some of the same reasons that Eugene Volokh suggests. A “revision” to the Constitution is something that changes the basic structure of… Continue Reading
I’m just as married to The Wife as I was three days ago. The world has not stopped revolving around its axis. Families around California have just as many kids as they did before, and those kids are just as… Continue Reading
It seems some local churches are organizing, and maybe even leading, efforts to organize voters to pass the anti-gay marriage amendment on the ballot this November. Me, I wonder whether this activity would cause the churches to forfeit their tax-exempt… Continue Reading
Tonight, at 5:01 p.m., county clerks throughout California will be under orders of the Supreme Court to issue marriage licenses to same-sex applicants and opposite-sex applicants alike. The clerks have no discretion but to obey the Court’s order, in light… Continue Reading
Today, the Norwegian Parliament enacted same-sex marriage. The IKEA-like title of this post is Norwegian for “Same-Sex Marriage Law,” which conveniently looks like it’s pronounced something like “Fellas get loving,” a wierdly appropriate sort of translation. Norway has a state… Continue Reading
The terrorists hate it. Khalid Sheik Mohammed, one of the higher-level prisoners in Guantanamo Bay (and one of the guys who it looks like we really should find a way to hold on to forever) again made things difficult for… Continue Reading
The Wife pointed out that my Marriage Hypothetical post was confusing. A fair criticism — I took a background that will look like a law school exam and used it to pose normative questions. Of course, I was trying to… Continue Reading