Gay news sources as well as NPR were hyping a case in federal court. A lesbian couple in suburban Detroit, raising 3 kids, sued to allow both to adopt them. When the case started last summer the judge suggested the problem wasn't adoption law, but marriage law. So they refiled their suit. This is big news because of the potential to overturn the gay marriage ban in Michigan.
The judge announced his decision today. And that is to delay his ruling until after the Supremes rule on the Calif. gay marriage ban in June.
Many commenters feel the judge may be prudent, but he is still a coward. He is allowing institutionalized discrimination to continue for a few more months.
However, if you could prove you're a member of the Little Traverse Bay band of the Odawa tribe in northern Michigan you may not have to wait long at all.
The National Organization for Marriage likes to brag that it got rid of (helped defeat) a couple New York GOP state congressmen because they voted for gay marriage in that state. But Freedom to Marry took a look at all the state legislators in New York and Washington. 97% of those who voted for gay marriage and ran in 2012 were reelected. That's compared to 90% of running incumbents nationwide. Support for marriage equality is now a reason to vote for, not against, a candidate.
As prudent as Obama's "eight-state solution" in his marriage equality brief for the Supremes might be, Ari Ezra Waldman says it contains a contradiction.
On one side of the contradiction the brief argues that the case must have "heightened scrutiny," meaning the gov't must have a really good reason to discriminate. On the other side, in the brief's proposed eight-state solution, reasons to discriminate fail before even the lowest level of scrutiny.
But keep in mind, this brief (even with a bit of contradiction) is historic, important, and a milestone in gay rights history.
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