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The Battle Over Gay Marriages The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled last week that it is unconstitutional to deny gay couples marriage licenses. Barring some unforeseen procedural hindrance, gay couples will wed for the first time ever in the U.S. in May. Gays and lesbians across the country celebrated the...
But we expect that Romney and his cohorts, too, will find these arguments familiar—and too easy to brush off. So it is up to the state legislature to stop the proposed amendment, for the sake of much more than Massachusetts’s gay community. Now that...
Throughout this country’s history, great leaps of social progress, from emancipation to the women’s suffrage and civil rights movements, have almost always been achieved through the enfranchisement of those who have traditionally been oppressed. Surely, an amendment banning gay marriage in Massachusetts would be...
BCRA’s opponents had claimed that banning soft money and restricting advertising was tantamount to limiting the right to free speech of corporations, unions and special interest groups. In rejecting this argument, the Supreme Court declared, in effect, that the importance of protecting of these means of speech...
On Christmas Eve, another copy of Samurai appeared online and was traced back to a screener that had been sent to Oscar voters. Since Warner Bros. gave out only VHS copies, the bootleg was not of great quality. But its existence is an embarrassment after a year of high-profile...