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Military chaplains ask Congress to intervene in response to Pentagon’s gay...
"The Pentagon has launched a direct assault on the fundamental unit of society." The Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty isn’t happy about the Pentagon’s recent proclamation to allow military...
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Boehner to DOJ: Defend DOMA or we might cut funding
Our fearless leader. To judge by the Justice Department’s decision to ignore it and the Pentagon’s recent decision to allow military chaplains to perform same-sex marriage ceremonies on and off federal...
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House GOP leaders will appeal latest Defense of Marriage Act ruling
To the same court that overturned Prop 8. Federal court judge Jeffrey White ruled yesterday that a portion of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional. It violates the principle to equal...
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Ramirez on Obama’s gay marriage flip-flop
Plus, a man of inaction. Last week, Barack Obama finished “evolving” on same-sex marriage with his statement endorsing legalization. Entirely coincidentally, that was just in time for a big Hollywood...
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Breaking: Federal appeals court strikes down DOMA
On its way to the top. Can’t wait to see how this plays in November, along with Barack Obama’s flip-flop on gay marriage: An appeals court ruled Thursday that a law that denies a host of federal...
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Tea leaves from oral arguments: Supreme Court leaning towards striking down...
Federalism. A rare instance in which the left is decidedly pro-federalism. The word from Reuters and SCOTUSblog: U.S. Supreme Court justices signal interest in striking down #DOMA as violating states’...
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Quotes of the day
Culture. As attorney Paul Clement took to the Supreme Court to defend the Defense of Marriage Act on behalf of House Republicans, the lawmakers who hired him to do so stood silently by. It was the...
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Flashback: Remember when Democrats swore they opposed same-sex marriage?
Sanctity vs sanctimony. Re-mem-mem, re-mem-e-mem-berrrrr … Dave Weigel takes us down Memory Lane with this video clip from a time long past when Democrats insisted that they opposed same-sex marriage,...
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Breaking: Supreme Court to hear challenges to Proposition 8, DOMA
Bombshell. I’m surprised. I said a few weeks ago that I thought neither wing of the Court had an incentive to grant cert on gay-marriage cases right now. The conservative wing should be worried that...
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Report: Prop 8 opponents lobbying DOJ to side with them in Supreme Court gay...
Choices. Nothing surprising about this, but in case there was doubt, here’s Greg Sargent to dispel it: The Obama Justice Department is not saying whether it will address this question. But sources tell...
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Quotes of the day
Marriage. Despite Washington’s frigid temperatures and freezing rain Monday, a virtual tent city of activists both for and against same-sex marriage braved the elements together, holding a spot and a...
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Senate gay-marriage pool update: Susan Collins won’t say she’s opposed to SSM...
Hmmmm. I might need a ruling from the rest of the Hot Air team as to whether this counts as an SSM endorsement for purposes of the pool. Granted, granted, she never says outright that she supports...
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