Law professors and super blawggers Ann Althouse (Wisconsin/Althouse) and Jack Balkin (Yale/Balkinization) are featured in a new bloggingheads video discussing Prop 8, the protests, the challenge to it and the prospects for de-fanging the same-sex marriage debate.
Watch the full exchange HERE (there are a few seconds of extraneous material at the beginning)
or an abbreviated NY Times version HERE in which the conversation centers on the possibility of abolishing marriage as a legal status and shifting to civil unions.
Althouse is a disgrace, including in this Bloggingshead iteration.
Every time, in every context, it’s same with her on gays: “Gee, I personally think blacks should be allowed to sit in the front of the bus, but I don’t think it’s that big a deal one way or the other so long as they can get on the bus, and I can’t really understand why they are so uppity about it.”
Not sophisticated reasoning, and not helpful at all.