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Painting the Internet Pink
millions of users of [Twitter, Facebook, and other social networks] have supplanted their profile pictures with that symbol to display their support and hope that the Justices will rule in favor of marriage equality…
…but how effective is this form of online activism? Matt Buchanan considers: http://nyr.kr/YJO5TP
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Justice Kennedy's DOMA Problem→
Plus, read our full coverage of gay marriage before the Supreme Court…
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Can the Supreme Court Hurry Love?
Margaret Talbot on the scene outside the Supreme Court today: “What is marriage for? How do children fare in families headed by same-sex couples? To what extent is sexual orientation inborn and immutable? They’re fascinating questions, but they can hardly be settled in oral arguments of less than an hour and a half … Outside the Court today, all those bigger questions were very much alive.” Continue reading: http://nyr.kr/10gwK6v
Same-sex-marriage supporters in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on March 26, 2013, in Washington, DC. Photograph by Jewel Samada/AFP/Getty.
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Wedding Bells
In this week’s Comment, Jeffrey Toobin writes about gay marriage and the Supreme Court: “The question about marriage equality for all Americans is not if it will pass but when. The country has changed, and it’s never going back to the way it was. Though the battles continue, the war is over.” Continue reading: http://nyr.kr/ZGI9xh
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Shouts & Murmurs - Portman Opens Door, G.O.P. Follows
WASHINGTON—Just after Senator Rob Portman of Ohio said having a gay son had caused him to reverse his opposition to gay marriage, Portman’s Republican colleagues began changing their positions on a variety of issues when they discovered that they, too, have families.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Speaker John Boehner said they realized they had wives and daughters, leading them to rethink their views on the Violence Against Women Act. “Having women in my life,” said Boehner, who has been married for thirty-seven years, “puts this thing in a whole new light.”
Continue reading: http://nyr.kr/10ROA0p
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"The real example of courage in this story, however, comes from Portman’s son Will, who is twenty-one years old… Will Portman proved, once again, that the most powerful political that act any gay person can take is coming out. Public-opinion polls show, and have for decades, that people who know a gay person are far less likely to support discrimination… To have a close relative who is gay or lesbian can only magnify the effect seen in polling. The most prominent example of this is Cheney, who has been a longtime supporter of gay marriage, as is the former House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt, who also has a lesbian daughter."
— Richard Socarides on Conservative Senator Rob Portman’s announcement in support of equal marriage rights: http://nyr.kr/WsSooQ(Source: newyorker.com)
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Argentina is one of only eleven countries where same-sex marriage is legal. Here, Richard Socarides asks if there is any hope for Pope Francis on gay rights: http://nyr.kr/Zq9Edw
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"…if you compromise on principle, on the assumption that the world will never catch up with your ideals, you will likely come to regret it. Marriage equality was not some completely far-off vision; it was something that could be achieved. Clinton never believed that the federal government had the right to discriminate. The harder question is this: When is winning the most important thing? Would a veto, in retrospect, have been worth the risk?"
—Richard Socarides, Bill Clinton’s former adviser on gay-rights, explains why Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996: http://nyr.kr/ZwC2KH
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"It does not call for gay marriage immediately in all fifty states. Yet, the President and his staff felt strongly that he had to come out fully in favor of gay rights, as he had done in his Inaugural Address—and it achieved that, too, making a legal argument breathtaking in its full embrace of gay rights."
— Richard Socarides on Obama’s brief against Prop 8: http://nyr.kr/Vhvodh(Source: newyorker.com)
