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Archive for the ‘Civil Rights’ Category
Dan Savage On Gay Adoption
October 15th, 2010 
Daniel Fincke Federal Judge Orders Halt To “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”
October 12th, 2010 Daniel Fincke CNN reports: A federal judge ordered Tuesday that the U.S. military stop enforcing the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Judge Virginia Phillips ordered the military “immediately to suspend and discontinue any investigation, or discharge, separation, or other proceeding, that may have been commenced” under the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Thank Republicans. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Gay Rights, Gay Rights, Law, Law, Law & Politics, LGBTQAA, News, Politics 
No Comments »Andrew Sullivan Making The Case For Gay Marriage Back In 1997
October 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke In places really smart and in places also really moving: Your Thoughts?
King vs. Beck
August 30th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Just as Christian fundamentalists quote only very selectively from the Bible what is most useful for their rather peculiar contemporary interpretations of their religion, so does Glenn Beck only focus on narrow slivers of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s ideas despite insisting that he and those in his movement are the true heirs of, and resumption [...]
Posted in Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Politics, Politics, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics 
Tags: Glenn Beck, Jon Stewart, Jr., Martin Luther King, Socialism, VorJack No Comments »David Boies Discusses The Prop 8 Overruling
August 7th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Here is one of the two lawyers behind the successful constitutional challenge to California’s Proposition 8 giving a half hour lecture and then answering questions for more than a half hour. Thanks to Alan for the find. Your Thoughts?
The Tea Party’s Forebears
July 21st, 2010 Daniel Fincke (via) Your Thoughts?
Posted in Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Comedy, Comedy, Law & Politics, Political Satire, Political Satire, Politics, Politics, Racism, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin, Satire, Satire, Videos Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Federalism, Ku Klux Klan, Lyndon Johnson, Medicare, Mock The Dummy, States Rights, Suffregates, Tea Party, Tea Party Movement, Woodrow Wilson 1 Comment »France To Ban Burqa-Like Veils
July 13th, 2010 Daniel Fincke EuroNews.net writes: A law banning the wearing of a full Islamic veil in public in France has been adopted by the lower house of parliament. The ruling UMP and the New Centre party voted for the ban on the burqa or niqab while the Socialists, Communists and Greens abstained. The law goes to the upper house in [...]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Feminism, Feminism, Free Speech, Free Speech, Islam, Islam, Law, Law, Law & Politics, News, Politics, Politics, Religion, Religion, Religious Rights, Religious Rights, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Women's Issues, World Affairs, World Affairs Tags: Burqa Ban, France, French Burqa Ban, Veil No Comments »Why Did So Many Pro-Prop 8 Witnesses Back Out Of Testifying?
July 10th, 2010 Daniel Fincke After pre-trial depositions, many pro-Prop 8 witnesses backed out of testifying, citing fear of reprisals in response to their testimony. Anti-Prop 8 lawyer David Boies is asked what he did to scare them off during the depositions: Your Thoughts?
U.S. District Judge Rules DOMA Unconstitutional
July 8th, 2010 Daniel Fincke A just outcome, but I am not sure how I feel about appealing to states’ rights to define marriage for themselves, which could inevitably be used as a justification for individual states to deny gays’ rights to marriage. The case is about equal rights, not states rights, and should have been settled as such: A [...]
No Preferred Legal Status For Religion
July 1st, 2010 Daniel Fincke His excellent previous 2 videos on the subject laid out legal arguments that preferred this conclusion. Your Thoughts?
Supreme Court Upholds University Non-Discrimination Statement
June 28th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Zack Ford explains: Here’s a brief recap of the situation: The University of California has a nondiscrimination policy. If you want to be recognized as a student group (i.e. use the university’s name, access funding for student groups, reserve campus spaces, etc.), you must abide by the nondiscrimination policy. The Christian Legal Society at Hastings [...]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Free Speech, Free Speech, Gay Rights, Gay Rights, Homophobia, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, Law, Law, Law & Politics, LGBTQAA, Politics, Politics, Religious Rights, Religious Rights Tags: United States Supreme Court, Zack Ford No Comments »
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