Proposition 8: Reading the Tea Leaves

Sara Robinson at Orcinus speculates on what might happen if California’s Supreme Court overturns Proposition 8 tomorrow: Nobody has a clue which way they’re likely to rule. Activists on both sides have been scrying the tea leaves and chicken bones on this ever since the court heard the case back in...

Maine Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage

Maine’s Gov. John Baldacci deserves praise for signing this bill into law because in the past he opposed gay marriage: Gov. John Baldacci on Wednesday signed a gay marriage bill passed just hours before by the Maine Legislature. Baldacci made his announcement within an hour of the Maine Senate giving...

A Civics Lesson

Two separate developments on the gay marriage front today, from opposite sides of the political spectrum. First, New York’s Gov. David Paterson is planning a Thursday announcement, according to the usual informed sources, that he will be introducing a bill in the state legislature to legalize same-sex...

The Times, They Are a-Changin’

Today, the Vermont legislature became the first state to legalize gay marriage, by law rather than judicial ruling. The governor vetoed the bill, but the legislature overrode the veto. Here is the Burlington Free Press: Vermont has become the fourth state to legalize gay marriage — and the first to do so...

Wehner to Frank: You Are Being Unfair to Warren

Peter Wehner has a particularly nauseating piece in Commentary in which he tells Barney Frank that it was very unfair of him to say that it’s unfair of Rick Warren to liken gay marriage to incest: What has Frank and other gay rights advocates riled up is that Warren backed a California ballot...

Itzhak Perlman on Proposition 8

Via Andrew Sullivan, I just learned of the existence of this video, in which Itzhak Perlman speaks out against Proposition 8 (before the election) on behalf of his daughter, who is gay. Obviously, the election is over, but I just thought the way Perlman presented himself on this issue was very...