Results for: prop 8 trial
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Focus on the Family Knows They’ve “Lost” Gay Marriage, Keeps Fighting For the Thrill of the Fight
“We’re losing on that one, especially among the 20- and 30-somethings: 65 to 70 percent of them favor same-sex marriage.. we’ve probably lost that.”
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Score One For Gay Marriage, Zero For Maggie Gallagher And Anti-Gay Republicans
Rep. Trent Franks and Maggie Gallagher both had a lot of feelings about gay marriage being bad, but it turns out no one cared about them.
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Boehner Hires Really Expensive Lawyer to Defend DOMA, Is a Real Anti-Gay Go-Getter
If you were worried that your tax dollars weren’t going to be used to defend DOMA any longer, well, you can probably rest easy now.
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Mike Huckabee Is A Terrifying Possible Future For Gay People, GOP Favorite
Mike Huckabee REALLY doesn’t want you to get married, and right now he’s the most likely Republican Presidential candidate. Awesome.
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California Supreme Court Makes Decision Regarding Prop 8: Wait Some More
The California Supreme Court has not made a ruling on the issue of standing in the Prop 8 appeal, but they have announced that they’re going to.
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The Prop 8 Appeal Hearing: OMFG What Happened
Your recap of the Prop 8 hearing is here! It took a while to get to you but that’s because Charles Cooper’s ears are just too weird, that and his terrible legal arguments kept throwing us off. Anyhow let’s talk about the future of gay marriage in California!
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The [Gay Marriage] Revolution Will Be Televised: Prop 8 on CSPAN
The original Prop 8 case wasn’t televised, but the hearing on whether or not Prop 8 should ultimately be repealed will be.
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OMFG What Happened to Prop 8 And Gay Marriage Today?
Confused by what happened in California today? Don’t worry, so is everyone else.
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BREAKING: Judge Walker’s Ruling on the Prop 8 Gay Marriage Trial – GAYS WIN
Judge Walker’s ruling on the constitutionality of California’s anti-gay Proposition 8 was handed down today: we give you the rundown, and ask for your thoughts. HOLY FUCKING SHIT, DID WE ACTUALLY JUST WIN?
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Stay on Prop 8 Ban Could Potentially Be Lifted: It’s All Really Happening
The day that ALL THE MARRIAGE THINGS happened!
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State of the Civil Union: On Illinois and Gay Divorce
Illinois’s State Senate has approved civil unions for same-sex couples – is it a sign of change or more of the same?
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We’ll Always Have Prop 8 I Mean Paris: Goodbye, Judge Walker
Judge Walker, our collective judicial heartthrob, has announced that he’ll be leaving the bench at the end of this year in a decision he says has nothing to do with Proposition 8.
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Obama Administration is Over DOMA (UPDATED: Sen. Feinstein Will Now Introduce DOMA Repeal Legislation!)
In which Barack Obama declares that he officially has our backs, seemingly out of nowhere.
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Prop 8 Overturned: Top 10 Smackdowns & Affirmations From Judge Walker’s 138-Page Decision
Did you read the Prop 8 Trial recaps? Even if you didn’t, you’ll LOVE the highlights from this 138-page ruling, it’s everything you’ve ever wanted to hear w/r/t your rights and the other side’s ridiculousness. Riese let me write this post because it’s easier than you reading the whole thing and cheaper than me going to therapy.
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California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Loves Gay People, Wants Them Married ASAP
On Friday afternoon something special happened: Republican Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger said that he thinks gay people should be allowed to get married right now! Not everybody agrees with him, though.
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DOMA ShMOMA: How MA Is Changing the Anti-Gay Marriage Game, One Case At a Time
The Prop 8 trial isn’t the only federal litigation happening right now regarding the definition of marriage – two other cases are currently making their way through the federal courts in Massachusetts that challenge the constitutionality of Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act. Autostraddle’s Legal Eagle explains how this could be a real game-changer.
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Guess Who’s Gay? Judge Walker of the Prop 8 Same-Sex Marriage Trial!
Judge Vaughn Walker, presiding over the Prop 8 Trial, is a homo! We loved him so much already, this is really just the icing on his homo-cake. Also: should gay cruises visit homophobic ports, New Orleans celebration, gays in schools, sex ed, gender disparity on college campuses and the real Tim Tebow ad!
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Prop 8 Gay Marriage Trial Explained Part 3: How Do We Win This Thing?
Autostraddle’s Legal Eagle is back to explain gender discrimination under the Equal Protection Clause, fundamental rights under the Due Process Clause, and HOW WE WIN THIS, Y’ALL. Is helping you understand the Prop 8 trial one of the best things we’ve done since the “Hot Girls in Menswear” gallery? YES.
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Day 10 of Prop 8 Gay Marriage Trial: Kenneth Miller Time is Less Filling, Tries to h8
“Maybe this man is not really a witness at all, but just here to annoy us. ” Because he sure ain’t doing much for the other team…
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Day 12 of Prop 8 Gay Marriage Trial: On the Last Day, The Other Side Epically Failed
It’s the very last day! And Blackenhorn continues to dig his own grave; defending polygamy and generally being a petulant h8er: “I feel like there must be some secret clause in legal proceedings that when someone says something this f*cking stupid, they automatically forfeit the case for their team. Like losing the Snitch. The polygamous Snitch.”