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The Supreme Court must be doing something right

If their decision not to take on the appeals of cases against the various federal circuit courts on marriage by gays is causing apoplexy amongst Bryan Fischer, the Liberty Counsel, the Family Research...

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Remember, this man has been, and wants to be, a candidate for President

Mike Huckabee, who thinks governors, presidents, and legislatures should simply ignore judicial rulings about the constitutionality of laws if they think that, well, by gosh, that's not what God wants....

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When is a church really a church?

The courts have traditionally (well, at least over the last century) reluctant to judge the validity of personal religious belief. But the law has been pretty good about defining actual churches, for...

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Marriage is not property

And we're not talking here about one spouse considering the other as property, but the argument that certain (straight) people own the concept of marriage, and have materially invested in it by getting...

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Marriage Equality looks likely to head to the Supreme Court

The 6th Circuit has ruled, 2-1, against a challenge to marriage discrmination laws within its area, the first circuit to have done so. It seems most likely that the expected appeal will not be for the...

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RT @LOLGOP You know what’s a threat to traditional marriage? Massive drought,...

RT @LOLGOP You know what’s a threat to traditional marriage? Massive drought, forced migration and the ocean swallowing a few major cities each decade. View on Twitter

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Alabama Supreme Court longs for the 50s. The 1850s

"Federal court rulings? We don't need no stinking federal court rulings!" Because state nullification worked so well last time. And for such (pardon me) bullshit rationales: The Alabama court ruled...

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Pride in Prejudice

South Carolina is actually arguing that the original intent of the Fourteenth Amendment was only regarding equal protection under the law for Blacks — it wasn't until the mid-50s that the Supreme Court...

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RT @Stonekettle Gay people should just declare gayness their religion..

RT @Stonekettle Gay people should just declare gayness their religion.. …then it would be tax free and they could tell everybody else who to marry View on Twitter

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Scalia has an odd understanding of the First Amendment

Or he's been reading too many Conservative Christian fear mags. As Justice Kagan noted, Jewish rabbis who choose not to marry mixed-religion couples are still licensed by the state to officiate at...

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The pace of social change

This article looks at some mass social changes and their timeline of acceptance (based on state laws then federal laws/rulings), including women's suffrage, abortion, prohibition, interracial marriage,...

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Civil Rights are shouldn't be up to the democratic process

I mean, yeah, it's nice when civil right recognition happens organically, and people recognize the value of human beings of various types and protect their "life, liberty, and the pursuit of...

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On the choosing of appropriate terms around "marriage equality"

It's not just a matter of so-called political correctness, but of conveying, accurately, what one means. As a cause, I prefer the term "marriage equality," as that captures what is at the heart of the...

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Bryan Fischer is a Dolt (Dreaded Scott Edition)

Bryan Fischer – Dolt If there was one person, Bryan, whom I could count on to approach the issue of religious liberty in a diverse society in a calm, insightful, and level-headed fashion, I knew it …...

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A Georgia Preacher in Secular Scandinavia

The video is worth watching, if only to see the huge cognitive divide here ("Wow!"), but +George Wiman's specific comments are just as important: folk who look toward a greater mingling of church and...

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Laws, Oaths, Faith, and Kim Davis

For those who are couching the Kim Davis debate as one of religious freedom (I'm raising an eyebrow at you, Messrs. Cruz and Huckabee), two questions: 1. Should a Kentucky county clerk have been...

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"God is my strength and my shield, but not really a very good legal defense"

Kentucky's Rowan County Clerk, Kim Davis, has issued a statement via Liberty Counsel (http://www.lc.org/index.cfm?PID=14102&AlertID=1965) about her jailing for defying a federal court order to...

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Scrambling for an extra few minutes of fame / martyrdom (Kim Davis Edition)

I'm hoping the return of Kim Davis to her job and her sad, sad proclamation that she won't stand in the way of her deputies issuing marriage licenses marks the end (or at least the beginning of the...

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Because "separate but equal" is such a keen idea

An Alabama judge thinks that since the federal government is the one mandating same-sex marriage, they should be the one licensing and performing such marriages, not state and county officials. Judge...

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Ben Carson and Same-Sex Marriage

Carson's continued harping on marriage between same-sex couples is useful largely because he keeps saying such silly things. For example, from this interview: "If you change the definition of marriage...

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