CNN Senior Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin said that it wasn’t legal “to talk about gay people the way Justice Scalia used to talk about gay people” while recounting Scalia’s prior dissent in Lawrence v. Texas on Friday’s “CNN Newsroom.” Toobin said
GOP presidential candidate and former Texas Governor Rick Perry dubbed the Supreme Court “legislators in robes” and said the US’ foreign policy is “erratic at best” on Saturday’s “Fox & Friends” on the Fox News Channel. Perry said that he
“They have not only rewritten the laws of the 50 United States, but have redefined a sacred and ancient institution,” Sessions said in a press release.
DENVER, Colorado — Over 4000 delegates are expected to gather at Denver’s Convention Center this weekend for the Western Conservative Summit. Speakers include presidential candidates Rick Santorum, Mike Huckabee, Carly Fiorina, Rick Perry, Ben Carson, and Scott Walker.
DENVER, Colorado—Over 4000 delegates are expected to gather at Denver’s Convention Center this weekend for the Western Conservative Summit. Speakers include presidential candidates Rick Santorum, Mike Huckabee, Carly Fiorina, Rick Perry, Ben Carson, and Scott Walker.
A newspaper in Harrisburg, PA has announced henceforth it intends to censor certain views about marriage deemed no better than racism, sexism, anti-Semitism.
From AL.com: Pike County officials haven’t issued marriage licenses in months, and today Probate Judge Wes Allen announced that his office is now permanently out of the marriage business. “My office discontinued issuing marriage licenses in February and I have
Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh argued that President Obama’s conversion on same-sex marriage was “phony” on Friday. “The president, three years ago, opposed gay marriage. Did you know that? Three years ago, the president opposed it and ran for office
The U.S. Supreme Court mandated same-sex marriage a constitutional right Friday. Of those cheering, none were likely happier than Robert E. Blackmon, the author of The Gay Groom’s Guide.
Huckabee compared America today – now oppressed with the legalization of same-sex marriage at the hands of five Justices – to the nation’s Founders who challenged the tyranny of the British monarch.
Author Fredrik deBoer argues that Chief Justice John Roberts is correct in his dissent on same-sex marriage declaring that “the majority’s reasoning would apply with equal force” to plural marriage–and that’s not a bad thing.
The College itself has maintained that a significant body of research has demonstrated that “same-sex marriage deliberately deprives the child of a mother or a father, and is therefore harmful.”
While most of the other GOP 2016 contenders have urged resistance to the Supreme Court’s Friday ruling on same-sex marriage, Sen. Marco Rubio said Americans “must abide by the law.”
Republican presidential candidate and Texas Senator Ted Cruz dubbed the Supreme Court’s rulings on Obamacare and same-sex marriage as “some of the darkest 24 hours in our nation’s history” on Friday’s “Sean Hannity Show.” Cruz began by saying, “Today is
Friday’s case will go down in US judicial history as one of our nation’s most misguided decisions. Fortunately, the four dissenting justices have also furnished the country with a goldmine of rational, lucid arguments that could eventually serve as the foundation stones to rebuild what has been lost.
It might be possible for the contours of healthy society to return, if gay marriage advocates collect their victory, show respect for the sincere believes of those who disagree, and let everyone get on with their lives. That’s not going to happen.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued a directive Friday afternoon to all state agencies in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage. The directive orders all state agency heads to respect and preserve the religious liberties and First Amendment rights of all Texans.
Pro-family groups throughout the nation are condemning the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges.
GLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis argued that “where we start to get into a slippery slope around religion is when we start to deny services that are far-reaching outside of the church or the place of worship” on
Friday on CNN’s “Newsroom With Carol Costello,” conservative commentator SE Cupp urged her fellow Republicans to accept the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of same sex marriage because she argued “it’s the future” and if they don’t she warned, “you’re
Friday from the Rose Garden, President Barack Obama endorsed the Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide. Transcript as follows: Obama said, “Our nation was founded on a bedrock principle, that we are all created equal. The project of each
The Supreme Court of the United States, in a 5-4 decision on Friday, declared that same-sex marriage is a fundamental right. Almost immediately, various count clerks’ offices around Texas began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Texas elected officials quickly responded to the high court’s decision.
Most Republicans were critical of the decision and expressed deep concerns that religious liberty granted by the First Amendment would not be subservient to the Court’s ruling.
While Republicans love to hate her, and Democrats don’t know what to do with her, one thing is certain: Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.
A Travis County judge’s dissolution of a homosexual couple’s marriage has created questions about where the Texas Supreme Court stands on gay divorce.
A San Francisco high school will offer the first-of-its-kind “LGBT Studies” course next fall.
Nintendo’s new tactical role-playing game Fire Emblem Fates, which will be released on Thursday, June 25, 2015 in Japan and 2016 in North America and Europe, is the first Nintendo game to officially allow players to have same-sex marriages with in-game characters.
In an interview with Breitbart News, Rev. Bill Owens said that, should the Supreme Court decide in favor of same-sex marriage, he envisions another civil rights movement of Christians of various churches and massive civil disobedience.
Wellington, New Zealand (AP)– Pitcairn Island, a tiny speck in the Pacific that’s home to just 48 people, has passed a law allowing same-sex marriage — but has no gay couples wanting to wed.
The Supreme Court of Mexico ruled on Friday that the definition of marriage as the union of a man and a woman is discriminatory and unconstitutional.
“From all of [the candidates], I am looking for a Lincolnesque response – that the decision, like Dred Scott, is wrong and unacceptable,” the insider said. Insiders also want to hear candidates affirm the basic nature of marriage and “God’s design for marriage as one man and one woman.”
In April of 2009, the Connecticut state legislature amended a law to codify same-sex marriage to read that churches and religious groups cannot be forced “to provide services, accommodations, advantages, facilities, goods or privileges” to a same-sex marriage, or be forced to “provide adoption, foster care or social services” to a same-sex marriage.
Despite a torrential downpour, an estimated 500,000 people gathered Saturday in Rome under the banner of “Family Day,” protesting gender ideology and LGBT programs in schools and reaffirming the nature of marriage as the lifelong union of one man and one woman.
On Tuesday, Ronnie Floyd, the Senior Pastor of Cross Church and President of the Southern Baptist Convention, told delegates at the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting Tuesday in Columbus, Ohio, that he will never perform a same-sex marriage.
Salon took the article from Alternet, calling it “The Perverse Obsessions of Right-Wing Patriarchal Christians.” The 2000-word rant by Valerie Tarico accuses conservatives of being obsessed with sex and procreation, along with—unbelievably—“anti-kid.”
Pope Francis insisted again on Monday that the “complementarity of man and woman” is essential to marriage, but is under attack from “so-called gender ideology, in the name of a freer and fairer society.”
A federal judge has struck down Guam’s same-sex marriage ban, making it the first U.S. territory to officially recognize gay marriage.
In the U.S. today, all the focus seems to be on gay marriage. It’s a central topic at the Supreme Court this month, for example. But the real story isn’t the death of men; it’s the death of marriage.
With the Supreme Court expected to decide on the freedom to marry by the end of June, Dana DeBeauvoir, Travis County Clerk, announced contingent preparations for issuing same-sex marriage licenses to Texans on Tuesday. DeBeauvoir stated, “We’re hoping for crowds.”
A Chattanooga, Tennessee, television station has rejected a pro-same-sex marriage ad featuring a Navy veteran because it does not want to appear to support either side of the issue, station programmers said.
