WASHINGTON (CNN) — In a preview of a major constitutional showdown at the Supreme Court over same-sex marriage, the Obama administration said on Friday that a federal law denying financial benefits to legally wed gay and lesbian couples is unconstitutional. The Justice Department filed the first of a series of briefs in a pair of…
“Proposition 8 does not ‘dishonor’ gays and lesbians.” So says the brief filed with the Supreme Court by the advocates of Prop. 8, because same-sex couples are not “similarly situated” with opposite sex couples. Glad they cleared that up. And while I’m frankly feeling even more dishonored having read the brief (and the brief in…
The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) announced today that it is organizing an anti-marriage equality march in Washington, D.C., March 26 – the same day the Supreme Court will be hearing oral arguments in the Proposition 8 case. In his blog, Brian Brown, NOM president promises more information in the “… days and weeks to…
BY JONATHAN YOUNG Lance Bass is accustomed to being in the spotlight. He’s performed with the record-breaking NSYNC, trained to be an astronaut, cut a rug with swing dance champ Lacey Schwimmer on Dancing with the Stars and has revealed to the world he is gay with a cover story in People magazine – just…
An all-star celebrity cast, including entertainers and LGBT activists Lance Bass (NSync), Annette O’Toole (Smallville) and Bruce Vilanch (Hollywood Squares), are scheduled to perform in a one-night-only reading of 8. Written by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black (Milk, J. Edgar), the play chronicles the historic trial that challenged California’s Prop. 8. The San Diego…
The Supreme Court released its list today of cases they will take up this session and none of the DOMA cases nor the federal Prop. 8 case is on the list. The American Foundation for Equal Rights writes: Today, the U.S. Supreme Court released the first list of cases it will hear this Term and…
WASHINGTON (CNN) – The divisive issue of same-sex marriage was expected to be discussed privately by the Supreme Court Monday, and the justices could soon announce if they will hear a constitutional challenge to a federal law denying financial benefits to gay and lesbian couples. An order from the court announcing whether they will take…
While legal scholars continue to argue about whether the Supreme Court decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act (ACA) simultaneously gutted the Commerce Clause, we can turn what’s left of our tolerance for mind-numbing legal analysis back to Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the federal court challenge to Proposition 8. To recap, Proposition 8 is the 2008…
Those who’ve seen the film Milk may remember the scenes in the film showing Harvey Milk working with labor leaders to further civil rights for his primary identity community. And when he ran for San Francisco supervisor multiple times, and eventually won his district’s seat, he achieved office, in part, by not only working on…
(CNN – San Diego LGBT Weekly) — The divisive issue of same-sex marriage in California may become another landmark case taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court after federal appeals court judges refused Tuesday to revisit an earlier ruling. The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco denied a request to re-examine the…
