The New Old Gays | The New York Observer by Doree Shafrir … To be classified as a New Old Gay requires more than an appreciation of Patti LuPone, though love of somewhat tragic, just a tad grotesque, totally fabulous divas is a requirement. In some ways the New Old Gay can be read as [...]
A new test of a “partial-birth” abortion ban | SCOTUSblog Lyle Denniston In a new sequel to the Supreme Court’s ruling that for the first time allowed a ban on a method of abortion, the Fourth Circuit Court agreed on Monday to reconsider the constitutionality of Virginia’s five-year-old prohibition on abortion by the so-called “partial-birth” [...]
Despite study after study finding that abstinence "education" does not work, except possibly to create funding streams for religious organizations and right-wingers, Congress keeps throwing money at them. Meanwhile, Australian educators have had a eureka moment – why not develop programs that teenagers might actually take seriously, because they provide genuinely helpful information and counsel? [...]
For a highly regarded scholar of family law, Nancy Polikoff (AU) is amazingly engaged as an activist — which is to say, she actually takes on major projects and does them, rather than simply describing herself as an activist. Currently, she is pressing the DC City Council to amend that jurisdiction’s law on alternative parenting. [...]
UPDATE: And more and more dollars … Money flows for, against gay-marriage measure – Political Blotter – Politics in the Bay Area and beyondBy Josh RichmanBig money kept changing hands this week for and against Proposition 8, the proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. Piedmont philanthropist and Obama fundraiser M. Quinn Delaney on Tuesday [...]
What’s tougher to get than a same-sex marriage? A same-sex divorce – Los Angeles TimesBy Sue Horton, Los Angeles Times Staff WriterJuly 25, 2008PROVIDENCE, R.I. — On the morning of May 26, 2004, Cassandra Ormiston and her long-time partner Margaret Chambers arose early, hopped in the car and raced across the border into Massachusetts. Then-Gov. [...]