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where to buy Ivermectin online These days, there seems to be an overabundance of cynicism, misinformation, and apathy when it comes to American politics. I often hear people—gays and gay allies included—claim that there’s no difference between the Democrats and Republicans, and I frequently see Facebook posts or comments suggesting the same. And they make […]
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VillageQ contributors share where they were when they heard about the historic SCOTUS decision. Where were you?
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If I were a political cartoonist, the metaphor I would use to illustrate the current status of the epic same-sex marriage battle would be the sinking of the Titanic. The Titanic representing outright opposition to marriage equality; The iceberg breaching the Titanic’s hull represents SCOTUS’s 2013 Windsor decision declaring pivotal portions […]
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The United States Court of Appeals for Sixth Circuit became the first federal appellate court to rule that refusing same-sex couples the freedom to marry is not unconstitutional
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I feel sad that while this is happening in some states, there are people all across the country who have no idea when their rights will be validated.
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At the end of the day Friday, a federal judge in Michigan struck down that state’s gay marriage ban as unconstitutional, making it the 18th state (plus D.C.) to recognize same-sex marriage: “Many Michigan residents have religious convictions whose principles govern the conduct of their daily lives and inform their […]
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Regular contributor Cheryl Dumesnil files this report as one of our penultimate regularly scheduled posts in the “Lawfully Wedded Life” series here. It is fitting: what the SCOTUS Day of Decision looked like from her family’s eyewitness point of view. A bit of backstory: Cheryl has been following this issue for […]
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by Shannon × on June 26, 2013 at 3:20 PM ×
I laughed…I cried…I made a puzzled face and clicked over to FindLaw to download the text of this week’s Supreme Court decisions in the U. S. And the conclusion I came to was that I feel…some kind of way about the court deciding we no longer need perhaps the most […]
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While many of the Lesbian Family crew (along with many of you) are variously freaking out and celebrating and trying to find a moment to write down what all the rulings mean to them and their families, here’s a germane snippet of something from Carlos Ball, whom I always love […]
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[We’ll update with Prop8 opinion as it comes in. Just did.] Okay folks: The Defense of Marriage Act has been found unconstitutional, says the Supreme Court in a 5-4 opinion written by Justice Kennedy and joined by Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan. Kennedy, writing in the majority: The federal statute […]
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