A Stitch in Haste

While I was not surprised to learn that the online dating site eHarmony would eventually be compelled to cease its policy of not accepting gays as clients, I was surprised to learn that the compulsion would come from New Jersey:
Under terms of the settlement between Eric McKinley, a gay match-seeker from New Jersey, and eHarmony, [...]

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The three key developments:
1. The California Supreme Court will hear the challenges and decide whether to strike down Prop. 8.
2. Only Yes on 8, and no other supporters of the amendment, will be allowed to intervene. (Note, however, that the task of defending Prop. 8 will fall primarily to Attorney General Jerry Brown — who [...]

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First, the video:

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These folks do:
Meanwhile, five civil rights groups asked California's highest court Friday to annul the ban on the grounds that Proposition 8 threatens the legal standing of all minority groups, not just gays.
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund, the Asian Pacific American Legal Center and two other groups petitioned [...]

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So my plan was merely to attend the morning sessions of "LGBTQ Law 2008: Where Do We Go from Here?" at Columbia Law School and then head home. I've been going to these sort of symposia for years and they tend, quite frankly, to be rather redundant. The talk from one of the lawyers who [...]

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To review: According to exit polls, black voters in California supported Proposition 8 by an estimated 70%-30% margin. For female black voters, the estimate was 74% in favor of Prop 8.
Many liberal elements in the gay-friendly activist community are resisting efforts to call out blacks who voted for anti-gay bigotry. One example from the far-left [...]

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Consider the following correction in Sunday's Washington Post:
Because of an editing error, the Nov. 7 op-ed column "Vows That Can't Be Voted Down" incorrectly suggested that the Mormon Church had contributed funds to efforts to pass Proposition 8, the constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage in California. The op-ed should have said "members of the [...]

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The litigation now before the California Supreme Court is very easy to frame but not so easy to analyze.
The relevant portion of the California Constitution is Article XVIII, which states unambiguously that: (1) there are two categories of changes to the document: "amendments" and "revisions," and (2) only amendments can originate via voter initiatives; revisions [...]

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Dear Shaman Clayton,
If someone were to walk up to me, hit me in the face for no legitimate reason and walk away, then I would probably not chase him down just to hit him back.
But when someone walks up to me, hits me in the face for no legitimate reason and then tells me it's [...]

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On Tuesday, the American electorate exchanged the "soft bigotry of low expectations" for the hard bigotry of low intelligence and lower morals.
Florida is a mosaic of communities that, each on its own, is an insular political minority: snowbird Jewish retirees, Cuban-Americans (and other Hispanics), undereducated and underachieiving beach bums, panhandle hillbillies, etc. Yet their shared [...]

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