Over at the Ruth Institute blog, Dr. J points out “the dog that didn’t bark” -- glaring omissions in Judge Walker’s Prop 8 ruling that Chuck Cooper nailed him on in the petition for a stay at the 9th Circuit.
Not every former RNC member is like Ken Mehlman. Political strategist Drew McKissick takes on the outrage that is Judge Walker's tyranny:
Two liberal law professors from UC-Davis School of Law take a look at preliminary briefs filed on the "standing issue" by Chuck Cooper (lawyer for Prop 8) and San Francisco.
The LA Times, along with Fox News, ABC News and others, has mentioned that Judge Walker is a gay man. The story was first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, who described it as an "open secret" – apparently in the San Francisco gay community, as to the rest of the world it was not known.
Kelly Ayotte opposes gay marriage. Bill Binnie supports gay marriage. But the Union Leader just endorsed a third candidate.
In response to Judge Walker’s ruling in the Prop 8 cases, the National Organization for Marriage has launched a new radio ad campaign airing in radio markets across the country. The new ad, entitled “San Francisco Values?”, highlights the impact of Judge Walker’s ruling not only in running roughshod over the voters of California, but also in jeopardizing the marriage laws of 44 other states.
All the media attention is focused on the 9th Circuit but the 10th Circuit now has two similar gay marriage cases headed the Supreme Court's way. The LGBT community is worried. Marriage suit vexes gay-rights activists:
Federal Judge Vaughn Walker is truly a visionary.
Charles Krauthammer at National Review connects a lot of dots, excerpt below with a link to the full column:
An excerpt from NOM Founder Professor Robert George’s recent speech on the importance of keeping social and economic conservatives working together: The moral foundations of economic conservatism are precisely those of social conservatism:
Because as one Des Moines resident at the Iowa State Fair told Bob Vander Plaats about trendy out-of-touch judges seeking to impress the trendy “big boys,” "That's just not Iowa."
LA Times Columnist: Brown and Schwarzenegger Should Defend Prop 8 ShareThis George Skelton, long time political columnist for the LA Times writes: The will of the California electorate is being undermined by Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Ken Blackwell writes today on same-sex marriage and the GOP:
In an interview with The Advocate published yesterday, NOM President Brian Brown responded to former RNC head Ken Mehlman’s announcement that he is gay and has decided to raise money to support the legal challenge to California’s Prop 8:
Prof. Hadley Arkes, the Ney Professor of Jurisprudence at Amherst College on the intellectual absurdity of saying, as Judge Walker ruled, that same-sex and opposite-sex couples are identical: