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Obama's Evasion of Gay Marriage Issue Irks Left
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Aug. 23) -- Nearly a month after California's Proposition 8 was struck down in federal court, the state of same-sex marriage on a national level has scarcely been dicier. Over at The New Republic, for instance, James Downie has assembled a timeline of President Barack Obama's statements on gay marriage dating back to 1996. What they reveal, says Executive Editor Richard Just -- in a scathing post put up on Monday-- is an "evasive stance on a controversial civil rights issue from a liberal president; an insistence that the issue is primarily local, rather than national, in character; a ...
Judge Keeps Same-Sex Nuptials on Hold, for Now
By not in system - AOL NewsThe federal judge in California who last week struck down the state's same-sex marriage ban ruled Thursday that local officials there still do not have the legal authority to marry same-sex couples for at least another week. ...
Prop 8: Same-Sex Marriages Delayed At Least Six More Days
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyThe federal judge in California who last week struck down the state's same-sex marriage ban ruled Thursday that local officials there still do not have the legal authority to marry same-sex couples for at least six more days. In an 11-page order, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker denied a request by supporters of Proposition 8 to keep the marriage ban in place pending their appeal of his landmark 136-page ruling. But at the same time, the veteran judge, an appointee of both Ronald Reagan and the first President George Bush, gave same-sex marriage opponents six days, to the end of business on ...
Prop 8 Ruling: Same-Sex Marriage Foes Conduct Post-Mortem
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyLeave it to the Liberty Counsel, a conservative action group, to say what many people have been thinking about a federal judge's ruling Wednesday that struck down California's anti-same-sex marriage initiative. Proposition 8, the group alleges, was not "adequately defended" in court in San Francisco by a rival conservative group, the Alliance Defense Fund. Here is a portion of the organization's press release issued just hours after U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker declared the marriage ban unconstitutional under the equal protection and due process clauses of the Constitution: The ...
Opinion: Flag Raising Robester
By Will Durst - AOL News(Aug. 6) -- Just when you thought we were settling in for another typical slow August news month, along comes Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker to overturn California's Proposition 8. The one that banned same-sex marriages. Did you get that? He overturned the ban. Loosed the bonds. Broke the chains. Raised a rainbow flag. And reopened a can of worms the size of the Louisiana Purchase. Dan Dion Will Durst is author of "The All-American Sport of Bipartisan Bashing: Common Sense Rantings From a Raging Moderate." According to this federal judge's persuasive opinion, restricting ...
Testimony Ends in California Same-Sex Marriage Case
By David Sessions - Politics DailyTestimony in the legal challenge to California's Proposition 8 ended Wednesday with attorneys for the gay couples who are plaintiffs in the case expressing confidence the judge will rule in their favor, the Los Angeles Times reports. Defenders of Proposition 8 -- a ballot measure passed by voters in November 2008 that limited marriage to opposite-sex couples -- conceded that they may have to wait for a higher court to uphold the state's ban on gay marriage. Vaughn Walker, the judge in the case, is a Republican with libertarian views who is expected to favor the challengers. He could rule as ...
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