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Archive for the ‘Gay Rights’ Category
June 13th, 2011
May 23rd, 2011
At an academic workshop on social conservatism most of the participants think gay rights is a losing issue, ripe for jettisoning. Sign of the times?
April 26th, 2011
Category: Gay marriage
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?
March 4th, 2011
Category: Conservatism, Don't ask, don't tell
The Weekly Standard: hurrah for ROTC, please don’t mention DADT.
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?
November 30th, 2010
Category: Don't ask, don't tell, National Security
So DADT repeal won’t wreck the armed forces and leave us naked to our enemies. The Marines’ honor has been a little besmirched by that noble service registering the highest fraction (40-60% compared to 30% average for the whole military) expecting negative effects, but they will get over it and they will follow orders with [...]
September 21st, 2010
Category: Don't ask, don't tell
Every Democrat save the two from Arkansas voted to end DADT. Every Republican voted the other way. Who’s to blame, do you think?
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 [...]
