I am a GENIE-OUS! But if Walker reverses the stay and lets the gays marry, I’ll be the happiest person to be wrong ever.
Tag Archive: gay marriage
Aug 04 2010
NY Mag says we won
No second source confirming yet: According to a source who has seen the 136-page decision, U.S. District Court Judge Walker has ruled Proposition 8, the California voter-approved ban on gay marriage, unconstitutional under both the due-process and equal-protection clauses.
Aug 04 2010
Cautiously Optimistic on Prop 8
On really big decisions, especially ones that involve a lot of media coverage, the court will give the lead counsel the verdict ahead of time so that they can prepare for media and immediate appeals. Vaughn Walker has a history of doing this and last night at 6PM the DIs (villains) filed a motion for Stay …
Aug 04 2010
Prop 8 Verdict
Tomorrow, between 1 and 3. I will comment no doubt. Between bronchitis and medicating bronchitis, I’m not terribly awake so… yeah. Just thought I’d tell anyone who hadn’t heard.
Jun 17 2010
Prop 8 Closing Arguments
Should you wish to read the entire thing, it is available here. From what I can tell, there’s only one argument that Prop 8 Proponents have, which is that only heterosexuals can get accidentally pregnant, so marriage is necessary only for them. It’s a strange argument, no doubt, but it is essentially the only quantitative difference between …
Apr 18 2010
Why I hate you if you voted Yes on 8
I’ll sum this up for you. Two men, Harold and Clay, lived together for 20 years in Sonoma County, CA, they took extreme care to make sure they had legal protections in place so that they could take care of one another. Instead, when Harold fell, the county and healthcare workers ignored all the legal …
Apr 14 2010
I get e-mail; How not to talk to an atheist
This is an email I got from someone I was debating on a facebook thread. We were talking about how the Catholic church needed to stop being so secretive and punish the molesters and let local governments prosecute the crimes and he said why shouldn’t they punish the homofags and adulterers and I said the …
Jan 28 2010
What a Day
First, RIP Howard Zinn and JD Salinger. Strange to lose such great men on the same day. Perhaps they’d been keeping themselves alive for the State of the Union. I think there’s a John Adams and Thomas Jefferson story to be had under there. Tonight at 8pm PST, the online test to qualify for Jeopardy! …
Jan 27 2010
The Defense Rests; Prop 8 Trial
The trial is over for now. In the near future, the judge will call both sides to give their closing arguments. He wants to familiarize himself with all of the documents he’s been given. It’s a lot. Today we learned even more about the defense witness Mr. Blankenhorn, now being called Blankenhorny thanks to a …
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Kate Donovan
Ashley's co-blogger is a third year student at Northwestern University who runs on coffee and snark. . At some point, she'd like to make people sit on couches and tell her about their feelings, but right now she writes in different places around the internet and makes silly faces when she doesn't know what to say. She's the president of her local Secular Student Alliance affiliate, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau. Opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Secular Student Alliance
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