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Thursday, February 16, 2017

From the Austin American-Statesman: Texas conservatives launch next fight on religious liberty

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More evidence of Texas' traditionalistic political culture. This sets up a constitutional conflict: The First Amendment vs the Equal Pro...
Thursday, April 21, 2016

From TribTalk: With LGBT issues, Abbott must balance base and businesses

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For our look at parties in Texas. State Republican parties are conflicted in their response to last year's gay marriage ruling. Business...
Thursday, March 31, 2016

USA Today: Religious liberty vs. civil rights: A balancing act

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Rights and liberties conflict. Here's the latest: Recent push backs against the expansion of civil rights - notably to gays and lesbians...
Friday, July 3, 2015

County Clerks are in the news

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Obviously the reason is that some are claiming that issuing same sex marriage licenses violates their religious beliefs, and the legal quest...
Thursday, July 2, 2015

A couple long items related to gay marriage

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The first presents a conservative argument in favor of gay marriage. - Not Whether but How: Gay Marriage and the Revival of Burkean Conser...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

6th Circuit upholds state gay marriage bans

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. . . which creates a conflicts the Supreme Court can sink its teeth into. Remember that earlier this semester the court opted to not review...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

Attorney General Abbott will appeal yesterday's federal rule overturning the state's ban on gay marriage

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This was to be expected. Politico provides detail : Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, a Republican running for governor, will appeal ...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

A federal judge in San Antonio declares Texas' ban on same sex marriage to be unconstitutional

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The Judge is Orlando Garcia who serves in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas. - Click here for his website . I cant the...
Tuesday, September 10, 2013

The US and Texas militaries conflict over offering benefits to same-sex spouses.

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This is the same conflict we see in other areas regarding same-sex issues . Following a recent Supreme Court decision overturning part of th...
Thursday, April 4, 2013

U.S. House Democrats from Texas among those not supporting gay marriage

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Most Democrats, and a small handful of Republicans, have publicly shifted from opposition to support of gay marriage. Here's a graph tha...
Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Which justices voted to hear the gay marriage cases?

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As we discussed earlier on in 2305, it takes four justices in order for a case to be heard by the Supreme Court. Given that some justices -...
Thursday, March 28, 2013

Regarding US v Windsor

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Click here for the written transcript of yesterday's oral argument, and here for the audio file . Here are the issues presented in the ...

United States v. Windsor

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Here's a link to Scotusblog's page on the DOMA case argued yesterday before the Supreme Court. More to follow.
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

For what its worth...

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The Westboro Baptist Church filed an amicus brief in the Prop 8 case. Enjoy .

Walter Dellinger's Amicus Brief arguing that Hollingsworth lacks standing to sue in favor of Proposition 8

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Click here for the brief . 

From the Monkey Cage: 9 Things You Should Read about the Politics of Same-Sex Marriage

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The smart guys at the Monkey Cage have complied a list of readings if you want to understand the political issues associated with same sex ...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Sometimes winning is losing

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Especially with Supreme Court cases . A decision in favor of gay marriage could actually set the cause back. The author support gay marriage...

In the Supreme Court today: Hollingsworth vs. Perry

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As we discussed previously, this case is about the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8 , which was an initiative passed by t...
Monday, March 18, 2013

Attitudes continue to shift on gay marriage

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The Washington Post reports on a poll which shows that 58% of American now support gay marriage. The expected divide exists between liberal...
Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Heightened Scrutiny

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One of the more important parts of the section on civil rights concerns the different tests used to determine whether the equal protection c...