Susan Collins said the same-sex marriage bill may be doomed now because of how Democrats (Leader Schumer working with Manchin) worked behind the scenes to find common ground with the Inflation Reduction Act.
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg powerfully responded to Marco Rubio calling legislation to protect same-sex marriage a waste of time.
Senate Republicans are divided on the bill codifying same-sex marriage and currently can’t deliver enough votes to pass the legislation.
Judge Reeves noted that “the title, history and text of the law showed it to be the State’s attempt to put LGBT citizens in their place.”
It is an abomination that an avowed religious bigot like Kim Davis was invited as a protest and counterweight to President Obama’s message
Notorious Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice, Roy Moore, has unilaterally issued a judicial order overturning a six-month old United States Supreme Court ruling.
Apparently, 5 days in jail did little more than embolden the newly crowned martyr to thumb her nose at Judge Bunning’s condition of release
So what evangelical Republicans in Congress came up with this week is a “novel” piece of federal legislation that mirrors the rash of religious Republican state schemes to legalize discrimination against the LGBT community.
There is hardly a bigger motivator than fear, and it is a fact not lost on Republicans who prey on Americans’ fear of all things not conservative, but especially those foreign “extremists.” Of course, some Americans are acutely aware that the biggest threat to their safety, and the nation, is from American extremists in the…
It is prescient that the top law enforcement officer in Texas, Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, is either completely ignorant of the provisions ensconced in the Texas RFRA, or he is aware of the law’s protection of Texans’ civil rights and still says they do not apply to the LGBT community because…bible, god, religious freedom, judicial tyranny, and opposition to the U.S. Constitution.
Conservative opponents of the Constitution see no contradiction in attacking the Marriage Equality ruling as a violation of the Constitution
In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court has ruled that state laws banning same-sex marriage are unconstitutional.
Although a weapon like same-sex marriage able to jeopardize the existence of the world’s largest religion sounds terrifying, the Vatican went a step farther and claimed the recent democratic vote in Ireland legalizing same-sex marriage is not only a clear and present danger to Christianity, it was a “defeat for humanity.”
Barber relies on discredited studies by discredited authors to attack gays but says a discredited study proves the gay agenda is counterfeit
Senator Cruz accuses the media of being obsessed with sex because they asked him questions about where he stands on LGBT issues.
During a CBN interview, Jeb Bush suggested that the only way to fight poverty in America was to defend traditional marriage.
It turns out that not only are Americans not the least bit enamored at the prospect of an evangelical fanatic as president, they are, by a large majority (61%), much more supportive of a gay or lesbian occupying the White House than a religious Republican seeking to rule according to Christianity.
Tt was no great surprise that evangelicals followed the lead of two congressional Republicans and issued religious orders restraining the ‘wrong’ kind of Supreme Court Justices from fulfilling their duly sworn Constitutional duty.
Some religious leaders are demanding that liberal justices Ginsburg and Kagan recuse themselves from an upcoming gay marriage case,
Although there has been progress throughout America’s history, the idea of equality for every citizen has never completely caught on. Still, equal rights is purported to be one of America’s defining characteristics and it appeared to be what the Founding Fathers eventually hoped would be the case.
Support for gay marriage has climbed to 61 percent, compared to just 35 percent of Americans who are still opposed to marriage equality.
Hillary Clinton hopes the Supreme Court will come down on the side of same-sex couples being guaranteed the constitutional right to marry.
A solid majority of Americans oppose discrimination against gays and lesbians, even if it is based on religious beliefs.
The crux of South Carolina’s argument in support of discriminating against gays is that if it constitutionally permissible to discriminate against women, then it is perfectly legal to discriminate against gays.
Louisiana GOP Governor Bobby Jindal announced that he intends to sign the “Louisiana Marriage and Conscience Act” into law.
The AFA wants the Supreme Court to ignore all other beliefs and all other religions in favor of theirs, but belief isn’t fact
One can hardly feel empathy for the people living under Republican extremists because unlike people suffering under fanatics in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and ISIS-controlled Iraq; red state extremists are chosen by incredibly stupid Americans to govern.
Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, Roy Moore, has made headlines lately by elevating the bible over the Constitution in what seems to be a widely held opinion in Alabama. Because the bible says gays are an abomination to god, it drove Moore to order other state judges to ignore federal court rulings allowing courts to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
On Monday, the state of Alabama began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. A defiant Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice, Roy Moore, demanded that probate judges refuse to grant the licenses, but was unsuccessful.
I’m not seeing anything remotely relevant or meaningful coming out of right wing circles any time soon, until they work out their sexual frustrations
Florida’s AG, Pam Bondi, believes that only men and women should marry each other… many times, as in her case. She is opposed, however, to marriage equality among people of the same sex.
It’s past time for the issue of gay marriage to be decided at the national, not just the local, level. The progress witnessed by the number of states that have approved same-sex marriage in recent years has been encouraging, but this should never have been a state’s rights sort of issue.
There are two issues guaranteed to get the wing-nuts to the polls even if they have to crawl on their bellies over barbed wire in a typhoon. The first is anything to do with not being able to let their kids under ten play with howitzers; the second voting magnet is anything to do with the possibility that Bob and Bruce might marry.
A Friday ruling that found Arizona’s marriage ban is unconstitutional, and the court’s denial of a request to stay its ruling marked the beginning of freedom for same sex couples in the state.
This monumental victory for North Carolina concluded a historic week nationwide for marriage equality. Ten states in the past week alone have now been added to the list of states where gay marriage is recognized, bringing the total number of states up to 29.
It’s time for the Supreme Court to officially recognize that marriage equality triumphed over homophobia.
The Court pointed out that “the Supreme Court has repeated held that public opposition cannot provide cover for a violation of fundamental rights.”
Hatred is as dangerous a contagion as extremist Christianity, and despite same-sex marriage bans being ruled unconstitutional across the nation, the National Organization for Marriage is behaving like a mortally wounded and cornered wild beast.
Pennsylvania House Republican Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania publicly voiced his support for marriage equality today.
Gallup released a new poll on Wednesday showing that support for same-sex marriage has now reached its highest level since the polling firm first started tracking this issue in 1996.
At some point, a judge, politician, or political pundit must make very public statements identifying the opposition to same-sex marriage is founded in the Christian bible and not because of birth rates, state’s rights, or Pocahontas marrying John Rolfe. They
U.S. magistrate Candy Dale struck down Idaho’s gay marriage ban on Tuesday.
Lawyers for Kentucky have crafted a bizarre argument saying the state’s gay marriage ban is necessary for procreation and human survival.
There is a real standard, of course, and it’s not God. It is called the United States Constitution, and it doesn’t mention God. That is the standard here, not the Bible
Quinnipiac University released a poll on Monday that shows support for marriage equality in Ohio hitting 50%.
Ted Cruz whined to Janet Mefferd and David Barton about President Obama’s imaginary attack on “traditional” marriage
Besides wasting taxpayer time, money, and violating the First Amendment’s prohibition that Congress shall “make no law respecting the establishment of religion,” Ted Cruz’s bill is an extreme case of conservative hypocrisy.
Religious Right leaders don’t understand the spirit or the exact words of the Constitution, which they continually confuse with the spirit and words of the Bible they also don’t understand.
Judge Arenda Wright Allen demolished every Republican argument, ruling that “the right to marry is inseparable from our rights to privacy and intimate association.”
The Religious Right says legalization of same-sex marriage is like banning interracial marriage but then they think tyranny is anyone besides themselves having rights
The lawyers defending Utah’s ban on same-sex marriage before the Supreme Court of the United States don’t have the law on their side, nor do they have valid facts.
AG Herring says Virginia’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, and he has filed a legal brief asking a federal court to end it.
Linda Harvey says the “yuck factor” is a gift from God, a “basic instinct.” When we think about gay sex we’re supposed to shudder and make sour faces and just be generally disgusted.
Houston Mayor Annise Parker married her 23-year partner Kathy Hubbard, Thursday evening in a private ceremony in Palm Springs, California. The two women chose the 23rd anniversary of their relationship together as the wedding date. Reverend Paul Fromberg, rector of St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco, and a former rector for Houston’s St….
Eric Holder set the record straight and announced that regardless of Utah’s intent to discriminate against same-sex married couples, the federal government will recognize the same-sex marriages.
Republicans and conservatives gathered in Utah to issue a call for an uprising against same-sex marriage.
The Supreme Court is likely not done facilitating theocratic tyranny or disabusing the people from their 1st and 14th Amendment rights if right wing extremists have their way.
Two-hundred and twenty-two years after the First Amendment was ratified, there is a large segment of the population that cannot fathom the simple meaning of the First Amendment.
Religious conservatives have been thrown into a frenzied panic because a federal judge struck down what they thought was their dog-given right to impose biblical law on people.
What Huckabee and the religious right object to is losing what they consider religious freedom to impose their rules on the rest of the population.
In Salt Lake City, Utah State Senator and State Democratic party chair, Jim Dabakis marries his long time partner.
On Friday, US District Court Judge Robert Shelby ruled that the gay marriage ban in Utah, which has been in effect since 2004, is unconstitutional
A group of House Republicans have announced their intent to propose legislation to give conservatives groups legal cover to continue discriminating against same-sex couples.
In her efforts to placate the most extreme elements of the Republican base, Liz Cheney tossed her sister under the bus.
The religious bigots who lacked an argument found out this week they lacked standing as well but like frat boys they couldn’t let no mean no
The Supreme Court’s DOMA decision, as can be imagined, has really sent them off the deep-edge.
Support from religious conservatives is in jeopardy as Republicans are accepting the idea the gay community deserves the same right to marry as heterosexual couples.
Roger Gorley and Allen Mansell’s story shows that being in a socially recognized committed relationship extends way beyond the equivalent of a corporate merger.
Bill O’Reilly is ‘furious’ that people are ‘lying’ about him saying that opponents of gay marriage haven’t ‘been able to do anything but thump the Bible.’
Kansas Republican Tim Huelskamp says marriage equality is unpatriotic and will destroy the family and motherhood – and even your apple pie
conservative Christians, did not limit their threats to President Obama and the Supreme Court, and set their sights squarely on the Republican Party.
Justices must acknowledge the prohibition on same-sex marriage, and homosexuality in general, has no other foundational basis than it is prohibited adherents of the Christian religion.
Rick Perry thinks that he speaks for everyone in the state of Texas, because the governor declared to reporters that both he and the state oppose gay marriage.
Shouldn’t we be questioning the right of government to mess with marriage at all?
No one denies that Portman loves his son, but the senator continued casting anti-gay votes long after his son revealed he was gay.
More than 80 Republicans have signed a brief which will be submitted to the Supreme Court in support of Marriage Equality
When West Point hosted its first gay marriage this past weekend, the Religious Right went bananas, talking about moral cliffs and decadence
Whether bible-loving opponents of same-sex marriage like it or not, marriage is not a religious institution.
Nearly 180 ballot measures face a vote on Tuesday. Here are a few of the most consequential initiatives to watch.
Score one for equality, today a New York court ruled that DOMA unconstitutionally discriminates against married same-sex couples.
Is the big tent about to get even smaller? Log Cabin Republicans were left in shock by Obama’s support for same sex marriage and some of them may bolt from the Republican Party.
The opposition to gay marriage is based solely in religious dogmata, and by legislating against same-sex marriage, Republicans are sanctioning unconstitutional church-based discrimination laws.
In a single moment the President has made history by endorsing same sex marriage and simultaneously became an instant target by the extreme religious parasites bent on “Reclaiming America”.
Rush Limbaugh claims that Obama is at war with traditional marriages, but he personally has destroyed more marriages than the president’s support of same sex marriage.
Barack Obama made history today by becoming the first president to come out in support of the legalization of same sex marriage, and his endorsement forever changes the same sex marriage debate.
Another state has added its political voice of opposition to gay marriage. North Carolina approved an amendment forbidding same-sex marriage.
The media hasn’t gone far enough in arguing against a referendum on same-sex marriage in New Jersey.
The GOP’s hate-inspired position will haunt them on Election Day if they continue promising to deny gay Americans equal rights.
Prop 8 is the result of California’s Supreme Court decision that said banning same-sex couples from marrying was unconstitutional. Religious bigots gathered signatures, mobilized church leaders and conservative pundits to put Proposition 8 on the ballot, and Californians narrowly passed the measure.
Learn how to amaze your friends at next week’s Super Bowl party in one easy lesson. When the subject of the Prop. 8 trial comes up between Super Bowl commercials, be able to look the host(ess) right in the eye and say, “If the plaintiffs prevail, same-sex marriage restrictions are toast just like Jim Crow after Brown v. Board of Education.”
The latest Republican argument against same sex marriage was delivered by RNC Chair Michael Steele who claimed today that same sex marriage raises health and life insurance costs for business owners. Of course, the same argument applies to traditional marriage, but Republicans aren’t against that…yet.
In an interview with Christianity Today, Joe the Plumber first defended calling gay people queers, then he said, “I wouldn’t have them anywhere near my children.” Joe the Plumber has many sides and none of them are good.
Former Sen. Rick Santorum wrote today that President Obama has antipathy for American values, and he tried to drag Obama into the gay marriage debate by suggesting that Obama supports federalized gay marriage, because he is going to let Europe dictate American policy.
In a piece titled Connecting the Dots: The Link Between Gay Marriage and Mass Murders, Robert Peters the president of Morality in America, argued that same sex marriage is a part of the moral decline in American society which has led to an increase in mass murders.
The state of Vermont has become the latest target for the wrath of social conservatives after the state legislature overrode a gubernatorial veto and legalized same sex marriage. Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council blamed the veto override on, “wealthy homosexual activists.”
As much as the GOP needs a wedge issue to energize its base, and have any chance at all of not suffering an embarrassing defeat in November, it looks like yesterday’s California Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay marriage in the state, won’t do the trick.
Today on his website former U.S. Senator Mike Gravel of Alaska announced that he is leaving the Democratic Party for the Libertarian Party. Gravel, who was the best thing about those early Democratic primary debates said, “Today, I am announcing my plan to join the Libertarian Party, because the Democratic Party no longer represents my vision for our great country.
