Tag Archives: Law

End of the line for special rights seekers, Part 1

Posted on February 6, 2008 by David

On January 31, Maryland Circuit Court Judge William J. Rowan, III ruled on the last chance for PFOX, Lynn Chapman’s Family Leader Network, and other assorted anti-gay obsessives to derail the progressive human sexuality curriculum in Montgomery County. Assisted in … Continue reading →

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File under Hoaxes, poorly executed

Posted on January 23, 2008 by David

Update: Autumn from Pam’s House Blend would like an apology from all involved in this pitiful stunt. I’m not holding my breath, either. Well, it seems that the story of “the man wearing a blue ruffled skirt” in the ladies’ … Continue reading →

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Southwick? I don’t think so.

Posted on August 16, 2007 by David

Say it to your Senators. The usual AGI suspects are all in a lather about the confirmation hearings of Leslie H. Southwick for the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Such very reputable and temperate sources as the Traditional Values Coalition … Continue reading →

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On the invention of new “rights”

Posted on July 10, 2007 by David

Is this the trainwreck Maggie Gallagher said was coming? According to the Boston Globe, a man named Stephen Dunne “claims he failed the Massachusetts bar exam because he refused to answer a question about gay marriage [and] has filed a … Continue reading →

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Sky not falling; tape at 11

Posted on July 6, 2007 by David

Ah, nostalgia. This post, from immediately after last year’s passage of the Virginia so-called “marriage amendment,” generated the following comment from occasional reader Sophrosyne (she of the relentless posting of gauzy heterosexual wedding photos): If the tide was turning your … Continue reading →

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U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Appeal in Custody Case

Posted on April 30, 2007 by David

From Equality Virginia: (Richmond, April 30) ““ Today, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal in a two-state custody case between a former lesbian couple. Lisa Miller, a woman living in Virginia and claiming to be “ex-gay,” filed the appeal … Continue reading →

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What a tangled web we weave

Posted on March 28, 2007 by David

Hat tip to Mason Conservative both for this story, and a visceral example of the quandary that anti-equality folks find themselves in when they try to define marriage according to the gender of the participants. “I don’t even know what … Continue reading →

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