Word: gayness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Supreme Court, which restarted a tired debate about affirmative action. And while the blowhards have taken up their battle stations - the leadership of the Republican Party, especially, seems to have shifted from politics to infotainment - the terrain on these issues has shifted subtly in the past few years. (Indeed, gay marriage - once the hottest of hot buttons - seems to be easing toward public acceptance, as state after state approves it.) (See pictures of the gay-rights movement...
...Watch a gay-marriage wedding video...
When super-lawyers Ted Olson and David Boies went to court last week to ask a federal judge to toss out California's Proposition 8, one might have expected longtime gay-marriage advocates to welcome the move with open arms. After all, not only is Olson, 69, one of the preeminent members of the Supreme Court bar and Boies an acclaimed trial lawyer who famously squared off with Olson in 2000 when they took opposing sides in the Supreme Court's landmark Bush v. Gore election case. But perhaps even more important symbolically, Olson is a former top lawyer...
...much as they appreciate having two such prominent lawyers on their side, gay-rights veterans worry that Olson and Boies' approach could backfire. Now is no time to test the federal judiciary - where conservatives hold sway - on the issue of gay marriage, they argue. (See pictures of the gay-rights movement, from Stonewall to Prop...
...smarter route to equality is a state-by-state battle to convince not just judges but lawmakers and voters alike. "History says the odds at the Supreme Court now are not so good," said a statement issued by the American Civil Liberties Union and eight other national legal and gay-rights organizations deeply involved in legal wars over marriage. "The U.S. Supreme Court typically does not get too far ahead of either public opinion or the law in the majority of states...