Mildred Loving passed away Friday, at the age of 68. Mrs. Loving, and her husband Richard, successfully challenged the Commonwealth of Virginia’s legal ban on miscegenation, and won for themselves the right to marry, in 1967. Her husband, Richard, died… Continue Reading
IDeclining Marriage Rates Why aren’t Brits getting married anymore? The marriage rate is at a historic low in the UK – the marriage rate is lower now than since the Brits started keeping records of this sort of thing, and… Continue Reading
I’ve been wondering for quite a while why a civil union for a gay couple is not equal to a marriage for a straight couple. Obviously, the Federal government does not recognize any kind of same-sex family institution, so that’s… Continue Reading
You can read all of the briefs here. If you’ve the stomach for it, you can watch the three-hour oral argument here. I don’t have time for that tonight. The Fish Wrapper reports that three Justices seemed skeptical of the… Continue Reading
Tomorrow, there will be three hours of argument in California’s consolidated same-sex marriage case before the Supreme Court. As longtime readers know, I don’t see any reason why gay people should not be able to get married and I do… Continue Reading
Once again, I have to question Romney’s finely-parsed political stance. Does the sexual orientation of the giant flesh-eating rats really matter?
Here’s something you don’t see every day. A politician, confronted with an issue upon which he has made popular statements, engages in some introspection and moral contemplation and then announces to the world that he was wrong and that he’s… Continue Reading
Dale Carpenter at Volokh Conspiracy has apparently given up on the idea of judicial challenges to promote same-sex marriage. This is because of an exceptionally long decision of the Maryland Supreme Court, ruling against same-sex marriage by 4-3 vote (two… Continue Reading
Polk County, Iowa, is the county in which Des Moines, Iowa’s largest city, sits. A judge in Polk County has ruled that a ban on same-sex marriages violates the state Constitution’s equal protections clause. The ruling is sure to be… Continue Reading
Last night, I gave some thought to bigger political developments, inspired to consider the issue by Senator Larry Craig’s guilty plea. This morning, though, I thought a little bit more about that incident on a somewhat more personal level. Now,… Continue Reading