During his reelection campaign, TNR wrote, [Presidendt Woodrow] Wilson had told a group of suffragists that “[h]e was with them,” even as “he confessed to a ‘little impatience’ as to their anxiety about method.” From this, the magazine concluded that the president had “at best a vague, benign feeling about [the issue], and no conviction whatever that woman suffrage was creating a national situation which called for thorough sincerity, nerve and will.”
An evasive stance on a controversial civil rights issue from a liberal president; an insistence that the issue is primarily local, rather than national, in character; a complete failure of sincerity, nerve, and will: If these things sound familiar in 2010, it is because Barack Obama is taking exactly the same approach on gay marriage.
Posted: August 24, 2010 at 11:32 am.
Democracy vs. Mob Rule
© Ruben Bolling
Posted: August 16, 2010 at 6:16 pm.
Newt you cheated on your first wife then dumped her when she was in the hospital with cancer. Later you cheated on your second wife with a 27 year old congressional aide. Maybe you should pipe down about defending marriage.
Newt statement on CA marriage ruling | Newt.org
Newt Gingrich makes a statement about how the Prop 8 ruling will destroy America as we know it, etc. etc… and multiple commenters on his own website cut him down for his ridiculous hypocrisy. Just. Awesome.
Posted: August 8, 2010 at 7:45 pm.
Judge Walker likely will be blasted as an “activist judge” hundreds of times over. And in that intended smear is perhaps the most disconcerting and hypocritical tactic of our extremist opponents. In striking down Prop 8, Judge Walker aligns himself with the most bedrock principles in our democracy.
First, it is the job of courts to reign in majorities when they trample on minority rights. Second, bias, prejudice, hostility, or even squeamishness, is never a legitimate basis for denying rights to a disfavored minority. And three, when there is no credible evidence presented by one side in a lawsuit, the other side wins. But when it comes to LGBT rights and our hysterical opposition, there is no playing by the usual rules.
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Posted: August 4, 2010 at 7:43 pm.
Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license. Indeed, the evidence shows Proposition 8 does nothing more than enshrine in the California Constitution the notion that opposite- sex couples are superior to same-sex couples. Because California has no interest in discriminating against gay men and lesbians, and because Proposition 8 prevents California from fulfilling its constitutional obligation to provide marriages on an equal basis, the court concludes that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional.
Judge Vaughn Walker, Declaring California’s Proposition 8 Unconstitutional
Posted: August 4, 2010 at 5:02 pm.
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