Rick Santorum went on the Bill O’Reilly show and made a monumentally idiotic argument. He claimed that allowing gay people to get married will result, and is already resulting, in straight married couples having fewer kids. Why? I have no idea. Neither does he.
Category Archive: Equality
Apr 16 2013
Regnerus Gets His Talking Points
My former colleague at the American Independent News Network, Sofia Resnick, has been doing a lot of digging into that now-infamous parenting study by Mark Regnerus that is now being cited widely by the religious right against same-sex marriage. And she’s been finding some very interesting things. A month ago she reported that the study …
Apr 15 2013
Agema Just Keeps On Going
Dave Agema, the former Michigan state legislature and now a member of the Republican National Committee, is ignoring the first rule of holes. Already getting hammered even by his fellow Republicans for his virulently anti-gay statements, he went on Tony Perkins’ radio show and compared gay people to alcoholics.
Apr 13 2013
Bigots Try the ‘Your Father Would Be So Disappointed’ Approach
Sen. Bob Casey Jr., a centrist Democrat from Pennsylvania who followed in the footsteps of his father, is one of the recent Democratic legislators to have “evolved” on the issue of marriage equality. And the anti-gay bigots want him to know that his father would be very disappointed in him:
Apr 12 2013
Blackwell on the ‘Illiberalism’ of Marriage Equality
Ken Blackwell, former Ohio Secretary of State now working for the Family Research Council, has a rather absurd column in the Washington Times claiming that marriage equality is “illiberal” and that there’s no comparison between the struggles for black civil rights and gay civil rights.
Apr 12 2013
Ellis Washington Comes to Scalia’s Rescue
After the oral argument in the Prop 8 case, I noted Justice Scalia’s rather incoherent question to Ted Olson asking “when did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage? 1791? 1868, when the 14th Amendment was adopted?” Olson answered this with another question:
Apr 12 2013
McManus: Gays Trying to Destroy Marriage
As it becomes more and more clear that same-sex marriage is going to be a reality in this country no matter what the Supreme Court does, the Christian right is pulling out all the stops and ratcheting up their rhetoric to absurd levels. Mike McManus of Marriage Savers went on Bryan Fischer’s radio show and …
Apr 11 2013
Marriage Equality and Contraception
Damon Linker has an interesting analysis of a brief (PDF) filed by Robert George, a Catholic law professor at Princeton, in the Prop 8 case. He notes that all this focus on having children makes contraception the real target of the arguments being used by the anti-gay side.
Apr 11 2013
Staver: Marriage Equality is the End of America
Mat Staver, the dumbest lawyer in America not named Orly Taitz or Larry Klayman, has a dire warning for the Supreme Court. If they allow gay people to get married, it will be the “beginning of the end of America.” Be afraid, be very afraid!
Apr 11 2013
NOM’s Amusing Marriage Chart
You can always count on the National Organization for Marriage to make a truly ridiculous claim that they wrongly think supports their position. On their Facebook page they posted this graph of marriage rates in the United States, along with this caption:
Apr 10 2013
Dean Chambers is Hilarious
Dean Chambers, the git who humiliated himself with those “unskewed polls,” clearly has a big future as a wingnut pundit. Like all the other great ones, he is capable of writing the most astonishingly stupid things while remaining utterly oblivious to how ridiculous he is. Like did you know that “same-sex marriage is actually marriage …
Apr 10 2013
Landrieu’s Political Cowardice
Though nearly every other Democratic legislator in Congress has finally “evolved” on marriage equality, Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana has steadfastly refused. And her excuse is that while she personally thinks gay people should have the right to marry, her constituents don’t:
Apr 10 2013
Conservative Justices Ignore Trial Record on Gay Parenting
The LA Times has an article about the claims by three conservative justices during oral argument in the marriage equality cases that same-sex parenting is some brand new phenomenon and there is disagreement on whether it’s good for children. And the article notes that those justices are ignoring the findings of the lower court:
Apr 08 2013
Did Obama Make a Strategic Error on DOMA?
Sahil Kapur has an article about the oral arguments in the DOMA case, arguing that Chief Justice John Roberts was cleverly trying to put Justice Kennedy, the key vote in the case, into a box. Kennedy clearly thinks DOMA is unconstitutional on federalism grounds, but Solicitor General Donald Verrilli explicitly disavowed that conclusion under questioning …
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