Tag: marriage equality

Posted on

George Takei Gives Alabama The (Wedding) Finger

Star Trek icon and social media darling George Takei took to his Facebook page today with husband Brad to send a message to Alabama and it’s currently “in flux” state of marriage:

(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = “//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1”; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, ‘script’, ‘facebook-jssdk’));

Post by George Takei.

I join George and thousands on Twitter today with my own#LuvUAlabama:

Posted on

Nebraska: Attorney General Asks 8th Circuit Court To Issue Stay On Same-Sex Marriage Ruling

As expected, Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson has filed a request with the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals for a stay on the ruling from U.S. District Judge Joseph Bataillon which struck down the state’s ban on same-sex marriage.

Judge Bataillon issued his ruling on Monday saying the law is unconstitutional. Tuesday saw Peterson ask the 8th for a stay on that ruling.

Bataillon has placed a stay on the ruling which would expire on March 9th.

Peterson would like the issue put on hold until the U.S. Supreme Court rules on marriage equality this summer.

Posted on

Marriage News Watch – March 2, 2015

From the American Foundation for Equal Rights:

Texas lawmakers are gunning for the judge who let two lesbians to get married.

Meanwhile, homophobic lawmakers celebrate the 10th anniversary of the state’s marriage ban.

There’s just one problem: the law will probably be overturned before it actually turns ten. Plus various native American tribes are in the process of legalizing marriage.

Posted on

Mexico’s Steady March Toward’s Marriage Equality

Click pic to enlarge

Of Mexico’s 31 states, over two-thirds (22) have seen court rulings in favor of same-sex marriage in recent years. But the reaction to such rulings has been less hysterical than we’ve seen in the US.

From Buzzfeed:

The wave of rulings throughout Mexico hasn’t caused the uproar that has followed rulings in the United States over the past year striking down state laws barring same-sex couples from marrying. Couples have not rushed to marry nor have conservatives organized major protests.

This is in part because the technicalities of Mexican law have meant these decisions have been much more narrow in their immediate impact. Each decision applies only to the individuals who have brought the cases, and other same-sex couples will still have to sue in order to marry. It takes multiple cases meeting certain technical requirements for the courts to nullify a state law in Mexico — a hurdle that has not yet been met.

After watching the fight for same-sex marriage here in the states, it’s a very interesting read to see how different the approach has been in Mexico. Read the entire report here.

Posted on

Finland’s President Signs Legislation Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage

The Washington Blade reports that last Friday saw Finland’s President Sauli Niinistö sign recent legislation into law that legalizes same-sex marriage for the Scandinavian country.

Niinistö signed the measure roughly four months after lawmakers in the Scandinavian country narrowly approved the measure. They considered the bill after supporters of marriage rights for same-sex couples collected more than 166,000 signatures to bring it before the Finnish Parliament.

Finland’s same-sex marriage law is scheduled to take effect on March 1, 2017.

In other international news, Ireland will be voting on marriage equality on May 22nd. Polls show over 60% of voters support the measure.

Posted on

Marriage News Watch – February 23, 2015

From the American Foundation for Equal Rights:

A few judges are still refusing to see gay and lesbian couples in Alabama.

Texas has had its first lesbian marriage, and now state officials are scrambling to find a way to undo it.

And some major national anti-gay figures are preparing to release a new manifesto to stop the freedom to marry.

Posted on

Right-Wing Website Says Same-Sex Marriage Is Like Slavery

The conservative website, Public Discourse, posts an essay today that says the legal arguments for marriage equality and 1857’s Dred Scott case for slavery law are pretty much the same thing.

The structure and logic of the legal arguments made for nationwide judicial imposition of same-sex marriage are remarkably similar to the arguments made by those who argued for the judicial imposition of slavery nationwide.

[snip]

In both Dred Scott and Windsor, the Court’s legal analysis was transparently result-oriented: the justices wanted a particular result, and manipulated the law to reach the outcome they thought preferable as a social-policy matter. In both cases, the majority’s “reasoning” wanders aimlessly before finally settling into the same oft-discredited judicial invention of “substantive due process”—the idea that it is simply morally wrong, or mean, for a democracy to deny a legal right or status conferred under the law of a different jurisdiction. In both cases, the majority opinions were subject to devastating dissents, and they produced greatly divided public reaction. It is hard to avoid the conclusion that Dred Scott and Windsor are two peas from the same judicial-activist pod.

Posted on

Poll: 62% Support For Marriage Equality Referendum In Ireland

A new poll by Sunday Independent/Millward Brown shows 62% of voters in Ireland plan to vote in favor of marriage equality in May. Only 16% oppose legalizing same-sex marriage.

With such solid support, activists worry supporters will become complacent and assume the measure will pass.

One marriage equality activist had this to say: “The biggest threat is our supporters taking these figures as fact and bowing out of voting.”

Posted on

Ricky Martin On Same-Sex Marriage: “Equality Is Inevitable”

Photo: Nino Muñoz

“It’s amazing, isn’t it? By June, the Supreme Court will say, ‘Let’s stop this nonsense and cover the entire country.’ It’s inevitable — equality is inevitable.” – Ricky Martin to Billboard about the impending SCOTUS review of same-sex marriage

Check out Ricky’s latest single, “Disparo al Corazon,” from his album A Quien Quiera Escuchar: