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...California Prop 8 Court Date Same-sex-marriage advocates rejoiced Feb. 2 after the California Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments on the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the Nov. 4 ballot measure that reversed the court's previous decision to grant gay and lesbian couples the right to wed; a record $83 million was raised by groups on both sides in the run-up to the vote. The March 5 hearing will also address the validity of 18,000 same-sex marriages that occurred before Prop 8 was passed...
...When the Academy did honor famous people - stars who might actually prop up the sinking ratings of what was once the highest-rated TV show except for the Super Bowl - it chose the wrong ones, or the right ones in the wrong films. It's sweet that Angelina Jolie will accompany her beau Brad (Best Actor nominee for Benjamin Button) to the ceremony, but a shame that she was made a Best Actress finalist for her work as the desperate mother in Changeling, a performance so miscalibrated that it yanks the story out of its period whenever...
...carry them out. And now the power bubble has popped. Militarily, savvy and savage guerrilla movements have learned how to bleed us of money, lives and limbs. Economically, resources are scarce; it's hard to pay to transform the Middle East when we're deep in debt trying to prop up the Midwest. And ideologically, democracy no longer looks like the inevitable destination of all humankind...
...Many critics who are outraged by Warren's role in the Inauguration have unfairly painted him as a leader in last fall's campaign for Proposition 8, the controversial California ballot initiative that outlawed same-sex marriage. It's not as if Warren cut commercials for Prop. 8 or traveled the state urging its passage. But neither was he the silent bystander that some of his defenders have claimed. Less than a month before the election, Warren e-mailed a statement to his 30,000 members declaring, "There is no doubt where we should stand on this issue," and urged...
...After the election, Warren sowed more confusion about his support for Prop. 8. First he compared homosexuality to incest, pedophilia and polygamy, and then he tried to walk back from those comments by insisting that the real reason he backed the initiative was to protect the free-speech rights of pastors to decry homosexuality. It was an argument made by some other Prop. 8 proponents during the campaign, but it is a phony...