Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert on Gay Marriage (video)
Jon Stewart of the Daily Show and Stephen Colbert of the Colbert Report weigh in on this week’s fun at the Supreme Court DOMA and Prop 8 oral arguments over gay marriage. First Jon Stewart on the Daily...
View ArticleIs the media coverage of gay marriage fair?
I went on CNN this morning (since it’s not my Easter until next month) to discuss how well the media has been covering the gay marriage debate, especially this past week with DOMA and Prop 8 being...
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Religious right threatens Supreme Court on gay marriage
In a rather inappropriate move, America’s top anti-gay religious right leaders, including five officially-designated “hate groups,” have signed an anti-gay-marriage statement that appears to be a...
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There has got to be a better way to announce Supreme Court decisions
There’s something unseemly about waiting on pins and needles to see if maybe today the Supreme Court will “let my people go,” or not. Not only does the notion of submitting my humanity to a court to...
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Tomorrow is last day for Supreme Court to issue rulings on DOMA, Prop 8
Wednesday morning at 10am Eastern may be the most important day in gay civil rights history, perhaps on a par with the Stonewall Riots of 1969. See our live coverage of the Supreme Court gay marriage...
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John Lewis: Supreme Court stabbed civil rights law “in its very heart”
Congressman John Lewis (D-GA), who was a key civil rights leader during the 1960s alongside Martin Luther King, spoke out today about the Supreme Court’s decision in Shelby v. Holder. Shelby, explained...
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At 10am ET, the Supreme Court may make history – good or bad – on gay rights
We’re only hours away from a momentous day at the Supreme Court, when decisions on the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and Proposition 8 are expected at 10am Eastern. The court will either do...
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DING DONG, THE WITCH IS DEAD
It seemed time to check who’s commenting on today’s historic Supreme Court decision on gay marriage, and who isn’t. I quoted Huckabee below telling us that “Jesus wept.” Nothing from Sarah Palin....
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Fox News “forgets” to report on historic Supreme Court DOMA decision
Fox News today “forgot” to cover the Supreme Court’s historic announcement of its decision in the gay marriage case US v. Windsor, in which the court struck down a key portion of the anti-gay Defense...
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Pentagon to give marriage benefits to gay spouses following Supreme Court...
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel just announced that the Pentagon will make marriage benefits available all military spouses, regardless of sexual orientation, following the Supreme Court’s decision to...
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GOP Sen. Rand Paul: Supreme Court DOMA decision could lead to bestiality
God bless the Republican party. They just can’t keep quiet when they’re down. I had asked earlier today just how quickly someone in the GOP was going to suggest something stupid following the Supreme...
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The mess that is federal benefits post-DOMA
Now that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) has been struck down the Supreme Court, what will this mean for the provision of federal benefits to legally-married gay couples? DOMA, you’ll...
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Pelosi’s delicious response to Bachmann over DOMA ruling (video)
Nancy Pelosi is asked to respond to Michele Bachmann’s claim that the Supreme Court decision today “cannot undo God’s word.” The response is vintage Pelosi. Sometimes I really do love this woman.
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“Right Here, Right Now” by Jesus Jones (video)
“Right Here, Right Now” by Jesus Jones. I loved this video when it first came out in 1991, two years after the Berlin Wall fell, Eastern Europe had been freed after 50 years of brutal communist...
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Had Obama lost to McCain, we’d have lost on DOMA yesterday
For all the (deserved, I’d argue) blowback we’ve given President Obama over the years, on gay rights especially, one thing is incontrovertible. Had Barack Obama lost to John McCain in 2008, we’d have...
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Sup. Ct. DOMA decision as seen by Stephen Colbert & The Daily Show (video)
John Oliver of the Daily Show and Stephen Colbert of the Colbert Report cover the Supreme Court’s historic decision striking down DOMA, and dismissing the Prop 8 case which means Proposition 8 is...
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Gobs of gay marriage, DOMA, Prop 8 news
As you can imagine, there are an insane number of stories out there about the Supreme Court’s decision yesterday to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), and to dismiss the Proposition 8 case...
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Xanax, for the stress of gay summer weddings (SNL video)
A really funny video from Saturday Night Live, in response to the Supreme Court’s decisions on DOMA and Prop 8. ”Xanax, for gay summer weddings.” “I used to be worried that I wouldn’t have the right...
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Thank John Boehner for Supreme Court DOMA victory
Barney Frank, who tends to annoy me (I was working on gays in the military in 1993 when Barney cut the DADT deal with Clinton, behind everyone’s back, while the rest of us were still fighting to free...
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The most unfortunate anti-gay logo and slogan in the history of politics
In one of the most unfortunate moves in American politics since Republicans kept referring to the Tea Party “teabagging,” the anti-gay Family Research Council, which has been officially designated a...
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