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Conservative backers of Arizona bill SB 1062 had two choices following Gov. Jan Brewer’s veto of the right-to-discriminate bill. They could defend the bill on its merits. Or, they could distort the contents of the bill and attack anyone who disagreed with them as a legal Luddite and hysteric. Sadly, they chose the latter. Conservatives fanned out to claim that the bill was a big nothingburger. Anyone who was upset about it was exaggerating its potential impact. It’s already legal to discriminate against gays in Arizona, so they don’t even need the law, they claimed. Wait. If there is no...

The race for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination "just began" with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's successful shepherding of a law to legalize gay marriage through the New York state legislature this weekend, Politico's Edward-Isaac Dovere and Maggie Haberman report. Cuomo's support for marriage equality puts him at the sweet spot in the arc of history, Democratic strategist Jim Jordan told Politico. His work on gay marriage could be as crucial to his political future as opposing the Iraq war was to then-state Sen. Barack Obama. Cuomo is the first national figure enthusiastically to push same-sex marriage at the exact...

Obama picked an anti-military loon to sit on the Supreme Court today. Elena Kagan expelled military recruiters from the Harvard campus in defiance of The Solomon Act. Her case was rejected by even the most liberal justices of the Supreme Court. Of course, the fact that Obama would nominate some radical with such poor judgement to the Supreme Court surprises no one. Leftwing activist Kagan protests the military. This photo shows Dean Elena Kagan protesting against the military at a LAMBDA-sponsored rally at Harvard in 2004. (HL Record) Kagan told fellow protesters at the rally: “I’m very opposed to two...

LANCASTER [California] - On the fourth day of a weeklong bus tour of California, the lead attorney for the Yes on Proposition 8 campaign stopped at Lancaster Baptist Church to whip up support - and money - for the campaign. Prop. 8 would amend the California constitution to define marriage as only between a man and a woman. Same-sex marriages became legal in California this summer after the state Supreme Court ruled that a state law banning same-sex marriages was unconstitutional. Prop. 8 legal counsel Andrew Pugno said voters need to "send a message to activist judges," and tell them...

A list of legislators surveyed on the gay marriage amendment By Associated Press, 2/10/2004 10:47 ADVERTISEMENT An Associated Press survey of lawmakers between Friday, Feb. 6, and Monday, Feb. 9, showed that 71 members would vote in favor of the constitutional amendment in either its present form or if, as proposed, the final four words of the amendment are stricken; 62 members said they would oppose the amendment; 12 people said they were undecided, while 3 said they had no comment. Fifty-one lawmakers did not respond. One seat in the 200-member Legislature is currently vacant. Lobbying remains active and there...