Same Sex Marriage Is Not the Same As Opposite Sex Marriage

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  March 28th at 01:43 PM  | 

At the core of the two same-sex marriage cases argued this week before the Supreme Court is the fundamental question of whether the Constitution requires the state and federal governments to treat same-sex marriage exactly the same as traditional, opposite-sex marriage for all purposes for all time, or whether it is permissible to draw reasoned distinctions between the two, ranging from California’s simple reservation of | Read More »

The Proposition 8 Decision: Not Rational

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  February 15th at 04:00 PM  | 

The Ninth Circuit’s 2-1 decision last week in Perry v. Brown upheld the decision of Judge Vaughan Walker holding that the people of the State of California violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment by passing – in a statewide referendum in 2008 – Proposition 8. Prop 8 amended the California Constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman, restoring | Read More »

Ted Olson Pushes for Judicially Mandated Gay “Marriage”

By: hogan (Diary)  |  August 9th at 09:00 AM  | 

I am sad to report that Ted Olson is no longer worth listening to on legal matters or worth hiring by anyone who respects the Constitution. In his quest to legalize gay “marriage,” Olson is heading the challenge in court to California’s Proposition 8, passed in 2008 by the people of California to disallow state recognition of such “marriage.” This is not an indictment of | Read More »

The Prop 8 Decision: Having It Both Ways

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  August 5th at 02:55 PM  | 

Judge Vaughan Walker, the chief district judge of the US District Court for the Northern District of California, handed down his post-trial decision yesterday in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, holding that Proposition 8 – the referendum approved by California voters in 2008, amending the California Constitution to define marriage as between a man and a woman and thus deny recognition to same-sex “marriages” – violates the | Read More »

Whitman makes it close in California

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  July 7th at 12:00 PM  | 

Before the primary, for a while when Meg Whitman was campaigning and Jerry Brown did not have to, Whitman took a lead in the race for Governor in California. It didn’t last, but the latest Field Poll is good news for her, and not just because it shows her with only a one point deficit.