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News

Watch: At GLAAD Awards, Steve Warren Calls Scalia ‘An Old-Fashioned Bully’

by David Badash ● 6:48 PM April 22, 2013
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Steve Warren asked Supreme Court to make the right decision on the Prop 8 and DOMA cases they heard last month, and had a few choice words for Associate Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

Parenting

Spilled Milk: 5 Ways Gay Marriage Is Wrecking America (And Causing Global Warming)

by William Lucas Walker ● 4:30 PM March 30, 2013
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After this week’s Supreme Court hearings on same-sex marriage, and to illustrate what it means to be in a skim milk marriage, let’s examine a real-life hypothetical.

News

Scalia: Voting Rights Act Represents ‘Perpetuation Of Racial Entitlement’

by David Badash ● 2:26 PM February 27, 2013
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Today Justice Antonin Scalia claimed Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act represents the “perpetuation of racial entitlement” during Supreme Court oral arguments.

News

Supreme Court Justice Scalia’s Son Was Chaplain At Catholic ‘Ex-Gay’ Ministry

by David Badash ● 7:26 PM December 13, 2012
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The son of Justice Scalia was a chaplain at an “ex-gay” Catholic ministry, and Justice Scalia, it turns out, doesn’t believe in gay people, only gay behavior.

Celebrities

George Takei: Scalia Should Recuse Himself From Marriage Cases For ‘Repugnant’ Comments

by David Badash ● 4:57 PM December 12, 2012
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George Takei says Justice Scalia should consider recusing himself from the two same-sex marriage cases the Court will hear this term because of his “clearly biased.”

Bigotry Watch

Polygamy? Murder? Lindsey Graham’s Anti-Gay Marriage ‘Debate’ Deserves Rebuke

by David Badash ● 3:50 PM December 12, 2012
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Senator Lindsey Graham last night used polygamy and murder to define the boundaries of the “debate” on same-sex marriage, a wholly unacceptable manner of framing.

Legal Issues

Supreme Court Justice Scalia’s Seven Worst Anti-Gay Statements

by David Badash ● 10:16 AM December 12, 2012
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Justice Antonin Scalia has been talking recently about the issue of same-sex marriage, even days after the Court announced it will hear two marriage cases this term.

Bigotry Watch

Watch: Gay College Student Who Confronted Scalia Calls Justice’s Comments ‘Absurd’

by David Badash ● 12:56 AM December 12, 2012
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Duncan Hosie calls Scalia’s remarks surrounding same-sex marriage and intimate relations “absurd,” after the Supreme Court justice responded to him at Princeton.

News

Vote As If Your Life Depends Upon It: Because It Very Well May.

by Stuart Wilber ● 7:00 AM October 24, 2012
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2012 may be the most important presidential election of your lifetime. Rarely has either campaign spoken the three most important words: The Supreme Court.

DOMA

DOMA: NY Times Op-Ed Predicts Supreme Court Will Strike Down Anti-Gay Law

by David Badash ● 12:09 PM October 12, 2012
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A Harvard constitutional law professor writing in the New York Times predicts the U.S. Supreme Court will strike down DOMA, if the court takes the case this term.

Legal Issues

Scalia Says ‘Easy’ To Outlaw Gay Marriage, AKA ‘Homosexual Sodomy’

by David Badash ● 1:53 PM October 5, 2012
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Antonin Scalia, possibly the most extreme conservative Supreme Court justice, says it is “easy” to outlaw same-sex marriage — which he calls “homosexual sodomy.”

Legal Issues

What This Election Is Really About: An Obama Supreme Court Vs. A Romney Supreme Court

by David Badash ● 1:23 PM September 17, 2012
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The 2012 presidential, House, and Senate elections all come down to one big, huge, life-changing, generation-affecting issue: who sits on the Supreme Court and which way it leans.

Gay Agenda

LGBT Rights And The Dallas Principles: Now, More Than Ever?

by Stuart Wilber ● 9:00 AM September 24, 2011
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Major changes within the LGBT community, including the resignation of HRC’s Joe Solmonese, remind us that now is a good time to re-examine The Dallas Principles.

Civil Rights

The Right To Be Treated With Dignity

by Jean Ann Esselink ● 10:52 AM June 7, 2011
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Despite the Americans with Disabilities Act, police throwing to the ground a wheelchair rider proves discrimination, not dignity, for the disabled.