by Dwight Cathcart | Apr 28, 2015 | Marriage cases, SCOTUS
First, the name of the case is Obergefell v. Hodges. The link to one of the online pronunciation sites is here. Lyle Denniston, of SCOTUSblog, has put up a post “Same-Sex Marriage: The Decisive Questions.” This is fairly technical, but, like anything from Denniston on...
by Dwight Cathcart | Apr 27, 2015 | Marriage cases
The two articles published by SCOTUSblog written by Michael Klarman, which I linked to in the post on April 17, are all we are going to get from Klarman. That’s a shame, because he’s knowledgeable and writes well, and I thought he was going to give us a longer series...
by Dwight Cathcart | Apr 20, 2015 | Marriage cases, SCOTUS
I was in the Institute for Contemporary Art yesterday, at an exhibition entitled When Stars Begin to Fall: Imagination and the American South. I left South Carolina temporarily in 1957 and permanently in 1963. While I’ve not always been interested in what was going on...
by Dwight Cathcart | Apr 17, 2015 | 10th Circuit, Marriage cases, SCOTUS
SCOTUSBLOG.COM has introduced a seriously good series by Michael Klarman. They say, “As part of our expanded coverage of this month’s oral arguments in the challenges to state bans on same-sex marriage, we are pleased to present this post by Michael Klarman on the...
by Dwight Cathcart | Apr 15, 2015 | 10th Circuit, Marriage cases, SCOTUS
Dahlia Lithwick of Slate proposes that the gay marriage cases will be the most important gay rights cases ever. I think everybody agrees. These cases will be argued on April 28, 2015, in two weeks, with a decision in late June. Between now and then, it behooves us to...
by Dwight Cathcart | Apr 12, 2015 | Uncategorized
President Obama leaving Jamaica. Photograph by Pete Souza, White House photographer. At last, we get a photograph of the metaphysical truth of our times.
by Dwight Cathcart | Apr 5, 2015 | The effects of bigotry
Gov. Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas announced that he was not going to sign the first version of his state’s Religious Freedom Act—the anti-gay version—and said that his son, Seth Hutchinson, had signed a petition on Facebook asking him not to. Many people have assumed...
