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7 years ago @ Equality on Trial - Trump announces he's k... · 4 replies · +6 points

The timing couldn't have been "better", as it comes on the 69th anniversary of Truman's order to desegregate the military.

7 years ago @ Equality on Trial - BREAKING: Prop 8 heari... · 0 replies · +6 points

It passed.

8 years ago @ Equality on Trial - READ IT HERE: Plaintif... · 0 replies · +6 points

Keep in mind that people do take time to plan weddings and the like; since ME in Colombia is final, there's no need for a mad scramble to marry before the right might be taken away.

8 years ago @ Equality on Trial - Supreme Court takes no... · 0 replies · +4 points

Actually, Hively is a statutory interpretation case, not a 5th or 14th Amendment case. If there's a positive ruling from the SCOTUS, it would mean that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 has, all along, contained the protections required to provide equal treatment but they (erroneously) just haven't been enforced in the past.

8 years ago @ Equality on Trial - Open thread · 0 replies · +1 points

What do you have against doors?

8 years ago @ Equality on Trial - Round up and open thread · 0 replies · +2 points

First thing that comes to mind is "recent history of British colonial rule"...

8 years ago @ Equality on Trial - Round up and open thread · 0 replies · +3 points

Yes. If the Ohio legislature feels a need to make some sort of a statement, they can amend the state marriage code to a) remove the current discriminatory provisions and b) state that no churches or clergy are under any legal obligation to perform any marriage ceremony. Plenty of marriage codes in states where equality was legislatively enact already do this.

8 years ago @ Equality on Trial - Round up and open thread · 3 replies · +13 points

The First Circuit has formally struck down PR's marriage ban and has removed the recalcitrant district judge from the case (as the Ninth should have done in the NV case). https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/federal-app...

8 years ago @ Equality on Trial - US Supreme Court uphol... · 2 replies · +5 points

Federal judge rules that Obergefell isn't binding on PR due to "unincorporated territory" status, upholds marriage ban: http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/federal-judg...

8 years ago @ Equality on Trial - Open thread · 6 replies · +6 points

Rubio seems to be unaware of a little thing called Article III standing. For a future SCOTUS to overturn Obergefell, someone would need to demonstrate that they had been directly injured by it.

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