Voice for Equality: Miss Universe 2010, Ximena Navarrete
Posted on Sep 02, 2010 at 10:00 am
The recently-crowned Mexican Miss Universe, Ximena Navarrete, said in a post-pageant interview that, "I have many friends who are homosexual and I adore them. And they are equal folk: There is no reason we should want to set them aside, there is no reason why we shouldn't let them enjoy what they want to enjoy with their partner."
Voice for Equality: Roger Ebert
Posted on Sep 01, 2010 at 03:00 pm
In the August 27, 2010 entry of his Journal in the "Chicago Sun-Times", film critic Roger Ebert makes a case for the freedom to marry by telling a personal story of his mother supporting a lesbian couple in their desire to get married back in the 1970s: "Public opinion is perceived to be shifting on the topic [marriage equality]. It seems odd to me that on this issue, Barack Obama is more conservative than Dick Cheney, George Bush and my mother."
Omaha newspaper to include wedding announcements of same-sex couples
Posted on Sep 01, 2010 at 09:30 am
The Omaha World-Herald, amid a firestorm of protest on Facebook, has decided to re-examine its practices and policies concerning wedding announcements.
'Celebrations' announcements regarding licensed legal weddings approved by states, engagements for legal weddings or anniversaries of legal marriages will be welcomed, regardless of the genders of the couple.
Shifting attitudes on gay rights extend around globe, experts say
Posted on Aug 20, 2010 at 12:00 pm
"Often courts will make decisions that are predictors of what public opinion is going to be a few years from now," says Brian Powell, an Indiana University sociology professor.
"Public attitudes don't change really quickly, but this [the freedom to marry] is one that's changing really, really quickly," Powell said.
Moving the middle on marriage
Posted on Aug 19, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Lanae Erickson and Jon Cowan discuss the ruling in the Prop 8 trial and the work still to be done in the court of public opinion.
Germany considering income tax parity for same-sex couples
Posted on Aug 19, 2010 at 11:13 am
Germany's justice minister says she is considering changes to income tax laws to iron out disadvantages for gay couples.
Prop 8, Judge Walker and the Biblical view of marriage equality
Posted on Aug 19, 2010 at 08:00 am
Rita Nakashima Brock discusses the Prop 8 ruling from a religious perspective: "Prop 8 denied us our religious freedom by prohibiting us from authorizing marriages of same-sex couples, but, even worse, it denied the basic human right of marriage to a group of people based on unfounded biases about their sexual orientation."
Frank Rich: Angels in America
Posted on Aug 16, 2010 at 02:00 pm
Frank Rich writes about the Proposition 8 trial, Ted Olson, David Boies, Judge Vaughn Walker and civil justice pioneers like Judith Peabody.
Linda Greenhouse: Hiding in plain sight
Posted on Aug 13, 2010 at 10:20 am
Linda Greenhouse: "Given that last week’s decision is most unlikely to be the last word, the real contribution of Judge Walker’s fact-filled opinion, and of the trial that preceded it, may be to enable a better informed public conversation.
Knowledge can change perceptions, which in turn can change reality.
My fellow conservatives, think carefully about your opposition to marriage equality
Posted on Aug 10, 2010 at 07:00 pm
Freedom to Marry Voice for Equality, Margaret Hoover, urges conservative Republicans who are opposed to marriage equality to rethink their position.