“Two of the roughly 60 world leaders heading to McCormick Place Sunday for the NATO Summit are openly gay.
“The prime ministers of Belgium and Iceland were invited to the Summit here in Chicago, the first time two openly gay or lesbian heads of government have participated.”
May 22, 2012
Sagesse
Just in from the 9th Circuit.
The DOJ’s petition for initial en banc review in Golinski v. OPM has been denied. So the case will be heard by a three-judge panel, per usual procedure. Also, per an earlier order setting an expedited schedule, oral arguments will be set in San Francisco the week of Sept. 10.
Hope to see all my P8TT friends there!
May 22, 2012
Kathleen
May 22, 2012
Gregory in Salt Lake City
http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/none/news/how-gay-marriage-mob-slimed-manny-pacquiao/article_f1470e7b-97c7-55d6-8720-9260ae4aa6fd.html
I agree it was a disservice and misleading to specifically quote Leviticus…However, this quote was his:
After suggesting that Obama should consult the Bible as his “manual for life,” Pacquiao added in earnest: “It should not be of the same sex so as to adulterate the altar of matrimony, like in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah of Old.”
More evidence how religious types, specifically Christians often don’t know what is in their Bible(or true meaning of certain biblical passages). In other words, Pacquiao is even more ignorant then originally thought.
May 22, 2012
Gregory in Salt Lake City
From Chris Geidner at Metro Weekly.
The Department of Justice has accepted the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s April 20 ruling that claims of gender identity discrimination are a type of sex discrimination that is illegal under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — a ruling that could set in motion a series of changes in the way transgender people are treated by the federal government.
Read article.
May 21, 2012
Kathleen
“School officials in Savannah, Tenn., must stop censoring students, the Southern Poverty Law Center said today, or face a federal lawsuit on behalf of a student who was prevented from supporting equality and respect for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
“Students’ constitutional rights to freedom of expression do not stop at the school house gate,” said Sam Wolfe, staff attorney for the SPLC’s LGBT rights project. “Public schools are not totalitarian enclaves where school officials may ban speech they dislike. Students are better prepared as citizens in schools where fundamental rights, including freedom of speech, are exercised and not merely taught as abstract concepts that might apply at some distant time or some other place.”
I don’t understand the rights of children; it seems pretty clear that the student in this case, who is a high school senior and ‘nearly an adult’ would have ‘nearly an adult’ rights. Less clear is where and how the line gets drawn between the rights of the child, of whatever age, (to free speech, to learn scientific facts, to respect for their sexuality, for instance) and parental rights (to decide what their children learn or are exposed to in school) and the rights of the state to ‘legislate’ such parental rights. The legal intricacies escape me. It’s right that this case and others like it are being made.
May 21, 2012
Sagesse
Just another New York wedding in the New York Times.
“In a room bedecked with wildflowers, and sprinkled with a who’s who of New York elected officials, Christine C. Quinn,the speaker of the New York City Counciland a leading candidate to be mayor, married her longtime partner, Kim M. Catullo, on Saturday evening, in one of the most prominent same-sex weddings of a public official to date.”
May 21, 2012
Sagesse
