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...public funeral, presided over by Cardinal Seán O'Malley and capped by a eulogy by pro-abortion President Obama. Such a lavish ceremony appeared to give the church's blessing to Kennedy's career, even though he publicly and consistently rejected ecclesiastical teaching on abortion and same-sex marriage...
...hard question of constitutional law, it has long been our practice to prefer the alternative," Kozinski wrote in the January order. "The discussion above illustrates the constitutional thicket into which the discriminatory construction drags us. I therefore construe the Federal Employee Health Benefits Act to permit the coverage of same-sex spouses." (See more about gay rights...
...such humor, as if Britons have been permanently stuck in adolescence since the Victorian era. But adolescence isn't the slow awakening it used to be, as Britain's soaring rates of teen sex and pregnancy indicate. The annual British Social Attitudes surveys chart a steady liberalization of British views on sex, with a majority of the public now finding nothing wrong with sex before marriage and same-sex relationships. Brits have long been apt to say they've got no problem with what people get up to in the privacy of their own bedrooms. But a tour...
Only a few weeks ago, the passage of Maine’s Question 1 overturned recent state legislation allowing same-sex couples to marry. Prior to the repeal, Maine had been one of only five states to legally recognize marriage between same-sex couples. The vast majority of states have Defense of Marriage Acts—limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples—on the books. Given that the right to marry is still withheld from many individuals because of their sexual orientation, Phillips had good cause to question the existence of “liberty and justice...
...Defense of Marriage Act bans the federal government from recognizing same-sex unions...