Tag: same-sex marriage

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Sen. Lindsey Graham: If SCOTUS Rules For Marriage Equality, It Will Be Time To Move Forward

Speaking to Buzzfeed yesterday, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham admitted that should the Supreme Court rule in favor of marriage equality, it will be time for the country to move on.

“Things are changing, so at the end of the day, being for traditional marriage without animosity is where I stand. If the Supreme Court rules sometime this year that same-sex marriage bans are unconstitutional, then that will be a defining moment in that debate. It will be time for us to move forward as a society.”

(h/t JoeMyGod)

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Marriage News Watch – May 4, 2015

Matt Baume for the American Foundation for Equal Rights:

• Oral argument is done, and now we can make a few predictions about how the Supreme Court might rule in June.

• Texas lawmakers have a plan to stop marriage equality, and they don’t seem to care that their plan isn’t actually legal.

• And the National Organization for Marriage is insisting that they’ll still exist a year from now.

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SNL: The Return Of Fake Notorious RBG

The subject of marriage equality returned to Saturday Night Live last night when Fake Notorious Ruth Bader Ginsberg made an appearance on Weekend Update to deliver some “Ginsburns” zingers.

“The arguments I heard were so weak, I just hope they’re not holding up Justice Scalia’s chair,” zinged Ginsburg.”


 From Saturday Night Live:

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Kate McKinnon) takes shots at Justice Antonin Scalia and the state of Kentucky while discussing the Supreme Court’s upcoming ruling on marriage equality.

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Gallup Poll: 780,000 Same-Sex Marriages In US

Gallup reports that there are an estimated 780,000 same-sex marriages in the US.

Approximately 0.3% of adults in the U.S. are married to a same-sex spouse, and another 0.5% identify as being in a same-sex domestic partnership.

In examining the total population of 243 million U.S. adults, these survey estimates suggest nearly 2 million adults are part of a same-sex couple, of whom 780,000 are married.

These data are based on 80,568 interviews conducted on Gallup Daily tracking from Jan. 28-April 19, 2015.

Overall, approximately 0.3% of all respondents during this time period both identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) and said they were married, and in a follow-up question, they indicated that they were married to a same-sex spouse. An additional 0.5% of adults identified as LGBT and reported being in a same-sex domestic partnership.

So think on that a second – 780,000 marriages at risk of being wiped out should the Supreme Court decide against marriage equality.

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Mike Huckabee: Supreme Court “Cannot Overrule God”

Mike Huckabee, addressing the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference:

“I respect the courts, but the Supreme Court is only that — the supreme of the courts. It is not the supreme being. It cannot overrule God.

“When it comes to prayer, when it comes to life, and when it comes to the sanctity of marriage, the court cannot change what God has created.

“Somebody’s got to be willing to take on the institutions that challenge and threaten our ability to believe as we believe, because when religious liberty is lost, all liberty is lost.

“I do not come to you tonight with the ability to speak Spanish. But I do speak a common language: I speak Jesus.”

As I always do, it’s important to note that marriage equality does not “threaten” Mike Huckabee’s world. It merely allows for the inclusion of gays and lesbians in the institution of marriage.

My marriage to hubby Michael does not “challenge” Mike Huckabee’s “ability to believe.”

(h/t JMG)

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USA Today Interviews SCOTUS Watchers In Line

Equality Case Files activist Kathleen Perrin

USA Today interviewed folks in line to enter the Supreme Court yesterday .

In turns out the first 14 were paid placeholders who surrendered their positions to their sponsors after having camped out for days.

The 15th person in line, however, was Equality Case Files activist Kathleen Perrin.

Just as interesting, note who they interview at the 2:00 mark. Rick Grogan, the man who was removed from the SCOTUS chambers after heckling the judges saying “If you support gay marriage, then you will burn in hell.”

Brogan has a history of such behavior having been blocked from the U.S. Capitol for shouting anti-abortion rhetoric, arrested after he ran onto the field of a Cincinnati Reds game, and again when he climbed a tree and tried to shout down President Obama during his 2013 inauguration.

(via JoeMyGod)

SCOTUS heckler Rick Grogan