WASHINGTON—In his historic address to Congress, Pope Francis warned that traditional marriage must be protected against unprecedented threats, expressing opposition to same-sex marriage, and separately called for protection of religious liberty.
In an essay appearing Tuesday in The Week, Michael Dougherty suggested that the only appropriate punishment for Kim Davis given her contumacy before the law is to “actually martyr her” by burning her alive.
As of Friday morning, Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis sits in jail for her refusal to hand out state licenses for same-sex marriages. She cited her First Amendment religious liberty in her defense. She was arrested after being held in
Salon has brilliantly presented the argument that animals should be considered people, positing that the antiquated notion of a line of demarcation between humans and animals should be discarded.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia took a swipe at California in his dissent of Friday’s landmark 5-4 ruling that made gay marriage a constitutionally protected right under the Fourteenth Amendment and legal in all 50 states.
Talk radio host, former Chief of Staff to Edwin Meese, and author of “Plunder and Deceit,” Mark Levin argued that “had Kennedy been honest in his interviews…he never would have been nominated” on Friday. After playing clips of President Obama
In the Obamacare case, the Court pretended to know what was really in the minds of legislators in spite of their explicit words (and evidence of their actual intent). In Texas Housing, the Court has ruled that the federal government can decide what is really in the minds of ordinary people, whether they intend to discriminate or not.
As the Supreme Court takes up oral arguments on whether there is a fundamental right to gay marriage, Californians will be watching closely.
On Thursday, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer asked the Supreme Court to stay a ruling that would force the state to issue driver’s licenses beginning next Tuesday to DREAMers who received temporary amnesty under President Barack Obama’s 2012 unilateral Deferred Action
On Friday, the Obama administration issued its eighth “accommodation” to ObamaCare’s HHS contraception mandate, which requires most employers to provide free contraceptives, sterilization procedures, and abortion-inducing drugs to employees through their health insurance plans. Lori Windham, Senior Counsel for the
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, speaking at the annual conference of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Monterey, waxed eloquent on the deficiencies of the Constitution and implied that those who believe in the original intent of the
Several justices sharply questioned Obamacare’s “abortion mandate” today at the Supreme Court, and five justices – a majority of the court – appeared deeply skeptical of the controversial regulation at issue. Chief Justice John Roberts–who turned out to be the
On Friday, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the birth control mandate in Kathleen Sebelius’ Department of Health and Human Services regulations under Obamacare. The court said that religious business owners could not be forced to buy contraceptive
Lawyers for traditional marriage today filed an emergency application with Justice Anthony Kennedy at the Supreme Court, asking him to order that California officials not commence gay marriages unless and until they have the lawful power to do so. California
On Friday, CNN celebrated the Supreme Court’s lawless decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act by asking whether opinion-writing Justice Anthony Kennedy was “the first gay justice.” In a puff piece designed to designate Kennedy one of America’s
Justice Anthony Kennedy did the cause of gay marriage no favors when he ruled that the purpose of laws that uphold traditional marriage was to “disparage and injure” same-sex couples. By casting support for traditional marriage falsely as bigotry, he
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has denied Hobby Lobby’s emergency application to be exempted from the HHS Mandate on abortion services, but that should not be considered a sign that the HHS Mandate will survive its legal challenges in the
(AP) High court looks at race in college admissionsBy MARK SHERMANAssociated PressWASHINGTONNine years after the Supreme Court said colleges and universities can use race in their quest for diverse student bodies, the justices have put this divisive social issue back
(AP) Another big Supreme Court term kicks off MondayBy MARK SHERMANAssociated PressWASHINGTONWhen last we saw the chief justice of the United States on the bench, John Roberts was joining with the Supreme Court’s liberals in an unlikely lineup that upheld
When Barack Obama began an odd PR campaign against the Supreme Court following the oral arguments in NFIB v. Sebelius, my colleague Ben Shapiro speculated that the President may have hoped for Justice Anthony Kennedy to change his vote, as
Associated Press reporter Jessica Gresko reports that Justice Anthony Kennedy appeared visibly angry during the reading of the Obamacare decision today.
If, as widely forecast, the Supreme Court votes down Obamacare on Thursday with Anthony Kennedy as the deciding vote, President Obama will likely shift his campaign strategy directly against the Supreme Court – and Kennedy in particular. So far, President
The key vote in today’s Arizona immigration bill decision belonged not to Justice Anthony Kennedy – who, when it doubt, votes for what he perceives to be “personal freedom” considerations – but Chief Justice John Roberts, whom conservatives were told
In a 5-3 decision (Justice Elena Kagan had recused herself), the Supreme Court has struck down the form–but not the substance–of the controversial Arizona immigration law, SB 1070. The opinion by Justice Anthony Kennedy held that immigration law–including the decision
Barack Obama’s comments about the Supreme Court’s supposedly “unprecedented” behavior should it choose to strike down Obamacare may be a political gambit designed to set him at odds with the Court pre-emptively. Or, it could be an attempt to sway
Several Republican senators and attorneys general whose states filed the lawsuit against President Barack Obama’s health care law expressed confidence Tuesday that the US Supreme Court would overturn the legislation. The court on Tuesday heard a second day of arguments
From Reuters: The Obama administration on Monday cleared the way for the U.S. Supreme Court to decide in its 2011-12 term the president’s signature healthcare law that requires Americans to buy insurance or face a penalty. A Justice Department spokeswoman
Proposition 8 in California contains this simple statement, “only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.” A single judge in California reversed the vote of seven million people. Certainly, this issue will go to
The debate over same-sex marriage has cooled in many parts of the country. People have turned their attention to the healthcare bill and the new possibility of being blown up by guys with explosives strapped to their underpants. In reality,
Anna Nicole Smith, the dysfunctional former Playmate of the Year whose very public life ended all too tragically, may finally be getting some measure of justice. The state attorney’s office in Broward County, Florida, said last week it was reopening