In a recent news story covered nationwide, a gay Texas couple who had been married in Massachusetts, but are now Texas residents, wanted to file for an amicable divorce. The Family Law Court judge in the case ruled that she would hear the case for the divorce. In Texas, there is one of those recently-enacted [...]
On Tuesday, the California Supreme Court upheld Proposition 8, the November referendum that took the right to marry away from California gays and lesbians. As a small consolation, they did not invalidate the legal marriages of around 11,000 couples that were already married. Proponents had based their support of the taking of rights from their [...]
In the United States, our citizens pride themselves on the constitutional rights that they enjoy. We hold up the Bill of Rights as a symbol of how people everywhere should live. We are colloquially known as “The Land of the Free”. We “hold these rights to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” We [...]
OK, so I wasn’t intending to comment on any ballot measures outside of Cascadia when I decided to highlight them over the next few weeks. Sometimes I just react to the news as I see fit. According to recent articles, a number of religious groups in California are mobilizing to get out the vote to [...]
We have reports today that the California Supreme Court has overturned a voter-enacted law that prohibits marriage between persons of the same gender in that state. While I certainly congratulate the people who want to get married in their new-found ability to do so, I believe that this issue tells us so much more about [...]
