Orin Kerr, Professor of Law at George Washington University writes at the legal expert blog Volokh Conspiracy: …I have no idea what the Supreme Court might do in the Perry case. But my own sense is that Judges Walker and Reinhardt are not quite as clever as some people seem to think. Or, at the […]
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Matthew Franck on the 9th Circuit's "Desperate Targeting" of Justice Kennedy
February 10, 2012 – 9:00 am
Matthew Franck, Director of the William E. and Carol G. Simon Center on Religion and the Constitution at the Witherspoon Institute, in Public Discourse: ..In short, Judge Reinhardt has cooked a dish intended to appeal especially to Justice Kennedy, the author of Romer. Since that decision, its six-justice majority has probably declined to just five, […]
AP: Gay Marriage Bill Introduced in Illinois House
February 10, 2012 – 8:00 am
Once again, same-sex civil unions are not enough for gay marriage activists: A year after gay couples gained the option of civil unions in Illinois, some lawmakers are beginning a push to authorize same-sex marriages. Three legislators filed what they call the “Religious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act” on Wednesday. It would eliminate the part […]
Pulitzer Prize NYT Columnist: "Traditional Marriage" Has "Huge Beneficial Impact" on the Poor
February 9, 2012 – 3:00 pm
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times parts with his liberal brethren to acknowledge the importance of marriage for lifting individuals and societies out of cycles of poverty: Liberals sometimes feel that it is narrow-minded to favor traditional marriage. Over time, my reporting on poverty has led me to disagree: […]
Mitt Romney on 9th Circuit: Decision "Does Not End This Fight"
February 9, 2012 – 2:30 pm
A statement from Mitt Romney on his campaign website: Mitt Romney made the following statement regarding the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision striking down Proposition 8 as unconstitutional: “Today, unelected judges cast aside the will of the people of California who voted to protect traditional marriage. This decision does not end this fight, and […]
Newt Gingrich: Prop. 8 Decision Like Dred Scott, Roe v. Wade
February 9, 2012 – 2:00 pm
Via Sunshine State News: Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich ripped into a panel of federal judges that decided on Tuesday in a 2-1 decision on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that Proposition 8 — a measure approved by California votes to recognize only traditional marriage in the Golden State — was unconstitutional. “With today’s […]
Rick Santorum: Prop. 8 Ruling Hurts "Foundation of Our Society"
February 9, 2012 – 1:30 pm
From Rick Santorum’s campaign website: Republican Presidential candidate Rick Santorum made the following statement in response to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling on Proposition 8 – the 2008 ballot initiative codifying the traditional definition of marriage as one-man and one-woman. Rick Santorum said: “Today’s decision by the 9th Circuit is another in […]
Catholic Bishops Denounce As "Grave Injustice" 9th Circuit Striking Down Prop 8
February 9, 2012 – 1:00 pm
The US Catholic bishops conference: Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, joins the bishops of California in denouncing the February 7 decision of a federal court rejecting the constitutionality of Proposition 8, a voter-approvedinitiative in California that recognizes marriage as the union of one man and one woman. “Today’s court […]
A New Path to Upward Mobility: Get Married and Stay Married
February 9, 2012 – 12:00 pm
This is one of the top 5 articles on Fox News Opinion right now, written by Sheila Weber, executive director of National Marriage Week USA and the Let’s Strengthen Marriage Campaign: Marriage, we have just learned, is a major cause of the growing great divide among American upper and lower classes. Last week, in advance […]
73% Say It's "Very Important" for Children to Grow Up In Two-Parent Home
February 9, 2012 – 11:00 am
According to Rassmusen: Adults nationwide overwhelmingly believe that it is important for children to grow up in a home with both parents and feel those children have an advantage over those who grow up in a single-parent home. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 95% say it is at least somewhat important […]
78% Rate Marriage As Important to U.S. Society; Are Uneasy With Divorce
February 9, 2012 – 10:00 am
According to Rasmussen: Americans believe overwhelmingly in the importance of marriage, and a sizable number continue to feel it’s too easy to get a divorce in this country. Seventy-eight percent (78%) of American Adults rate the institution of marriage as at least somewhat important to U.S. society, and that includes 60% who consider it Very […]
Carrie Severino: The 9th Circuit's Attack on Self-Government
February 9, 2012 – 9:00 am
Carrie Severino, Chief Counsel and Policy Director of the Judicial Crisis Network, writes in NRO’s Bench Memos: … This ruling [by the 9th Circuit] effectively says that any attempt by the people of California to check their state courts’ liberal activism violates the United States Constitution. That proposition is not only legally laughable but is […]
Video: PBS Interviews NOM Chairman John Eastman on Anti-Prop 8 Decision
February 8, 2012 – 2:45 pm
NOM Chairman John Eastman was interviewed yesterday about the 9th Circuit ruling against Prop 8. He says the question here is “The right of the people to decide for themselves a very fundamental policy question about whether we’re going to continue to have an institution of marriage that is rooted in biology with a purpose […]
Eugene Volokh: 9th Circuit Proves Yet Another Slippery Slope Prediction Was Accurate
February 8, 2012 – 1:45 pm
An interesting observation by legal scholar Eugene Volokh — that the 9th Circuit’s decision validates yet another “slippery slope” argument used in the past by pro-marriage advocates: …The Ninth Circuit did not decide that all opposite-sex-only marriage recognition rules are unconstitutional. Rather, it concluded that when a state has already recognized same-sex civil unions that […]
ADF Senior Attorney: 9th Circuit Just a Battle -- We're Winning the War to Protect Marriage
February 8, 2012 – 1:15 pm
Brian Raum is senior counsel and head of marriage litigation for the Alliance Defense Fund. He writes in NRO’s Bench Memos: …No one should be surprised that this Hollywood-orchestrated attack on marriage, which was tried in San Francisco, turned out this way. But as the primary legal defenders of California’s marriage amendment, we are confident […]
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