NOM Chairman Maggie Gallagher was quoted in Politico yesterday on Speaker Boehner’s defense of DOMA: “We were extremely pleased with Speaker Boehner’s decision to intervene. That improved our prospects of prevailing,” said Maggie Gallagher, who chairs the National Organization for Marriage, which has become an active voice in opposing same-sex marriage laws since its creation […]
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Will Rhode Island Dems Adopt a Unifying Beneficiaries Bill?
April 29, 2011 – 11:29 am
RI Democrats appear to be trying to split the difference between the beneficiaries bill approved by local Bishop Tobin and a NJ-style civil unions bill, as ProJo reports: State Rep. Peter Petrarca said on the floor of the state House of Representatives on Wednesday that he will introduce legislation as early as Thursday granting gay couples […]
Speaker Fox Takes Heat From SSM Activists in RI for Supporting Civil Unions
April 29, 2011 – 11:28 am
Will Marriage Equality Rhode Island kill a civil unions bill in that state? ProJo reports: “House Speaker Gordon D. Fox, in an emotional appeal to gay marriage advocates protesting outside his State House office, said that his decision to support civil union legislation was a sign of the strong opposition by both the state House […]
US Bishops Hire Policy Advisor for Marriage and Family
April 29, 2011 – 11:27 am
A new arrow in the bishops’ quiver: Mr. Daniel Avila, Esq. has been hired as Policy Advisor for Marriage and Family within the USCCB. Mr. Avila formerly served at the Massachusetts Catholic Conference as Associate Director for Policy & Research since 1997. He has researched and written about marriage and its protection on various occasions, […]
Tired Meme Alert: MN Gay Marriage Advocates Tout Bogus Economic Arguments
April 29, 2011 – 11:25 am
We’ve seen this argument floated before, and now it has popped up again – this time in Minnesota: “In so many ways, this constitutional amendment [defining marriage as between one man and one woman] is bad for Minnesota employers and a distraction from the real priority for the state: growing the economy,” said Charlie Zelle, […]
FRC's Perkins: Who Decides Who Gets Lawyers? SSM Activists or the Constitution?
April 29, 2011 – 11:18 am
From Family Research Council Tony Perkins’ Washington Update: The people who avoid a debate are the ones afraid of losing. That’s why the groups like GetEQUAL and others are forming what is basically a mobile protest unit. [This week], its activists rallied outside the offices of King & Spalding–only to learn that its attorneys had […]
Breaking News: Judge Grants Expedited Hearing on Motion to Compel Return of Prop 8 Tapes
April 29, 2011 – 9:58 am
Yet another new development in the Prop 8 case: Judge James Ware has set the hearing on Protect Marriage’s motion to compel Judge Walker to return the videos of the Prop 8 trial to coincide with their separate motion to also vacate his judgment, which was recently set for June 13, 2011 at 9:00 a.m. Stay […]
Video: Seeking the Vote to Define Marriage in MN
April 29, 2011 – 9:00 am
A compilation of video clips of this week’s presser introducing a marriage amendment in the Minnesota Senate (also includes a photo from NOM’s Summer for Marriage tour):
Video: Legal Eagle Keith Sullivan Goes After Kirk & Spalding and HRC
April 28, 2011 – 4:28 pm
Note how the People for the American Way spokeswoman doesn’t even want to address the extraordinary campaign to prevent legal representation:
Maggie's Column: Paul Clement's Courage, A Law Firm's Cowardice, and a Movement's Will to Power
April 28, 2011 – 12:14 pm
NOM Chairman Maggie Gallagher’s latest column: What happened this past Monday in the fight to defend marriage was one of those moments that reveal the character of a man, a movement and perhaps a country. It’s a story that displays one man’s courage, a law firm’s cravenness, and a movement’s will to power. The drama […]
NY Sun Editors on Paul Clement's Courage
April 28, 2011 – 11:47 am
The Sun mistakes marriage for an unpopular issue generally, but then they are a Manhattan paper; otherwise a lovely defense of legal honor: It happens that we’d been thinking about the courage of a certain kind of lawyer who sticks with an unpopular client even when attempts are made to drive him off a case. […]
Why Speaker Fox Caved on Gay Marriage
April 28, 2011 – 11:07 am
Via ProJo: “An opponent of same-sex marriage, Rep. Jon Brien, D-Woonsocket, called Fox’s shift “a practical political move … [because] the votes were not there on the [House] floor,” a point that even Fox did not dispute. Had that bill gotten that far, Brien said the speaker also knew that he intended to seek a […]
ProJo Front Page: "Gay Marriage Dead"
April 28, 2011 – 11:05 am
The headline says it all: Source: Providence Journal
Judge Grants Expedited Hearing of Motion to Vacate Walker's Prop 8 Decision!
April 27, 2011 – 5:08 pm
We’ve just received word that the expedited hearing date on the motion to vacate Judge Walker’s biased decision in the Perry case has now been set for June 13, 2011 at 9:00 a.m. Related: NOM Praises Motion to Vacate Same-Sex Marriage Ruling
Legal scholar: Congress can demand K&S reveal Coca-Cola communications
April 27, 2011 – 5:02 pm
In light of Talking Point Memo’s claim that Coca-Cola directly intervened to have King & Spalding drop its defense of DOMA, legal scholar Richard Painter suggests that Coca-Cola may be required to answer some pointed questions: Absent a client confict, one client should not be permitted to dictate the representation — or the discontinuance of […]
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