http://importance.corante.com/ en-us ernest.miller@aya.yale.edu 2005-05-23T10:22:23-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/05/23/religious_bias_and_romer_v_evans.php For one reason or the other I was reading Romer v. Evans, the Supreme Court case that overturned Colorado's Amendment 2, which would have made it unconstitutional (under the state constitution) for the state or local government to provide anti-discrimination... 5703@http://importance.corante.com/ Gay Rights 2005-05-23T10:22:23-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2005/05/13/no_gay_books_for_kids_or_no_says_ok_legislators_to_librarians.php KFOR.com has the story (Lawmakers Threaten Library Funding):The House has passed a resolution urging libraries to restrict children's access to books with homosexual subjects.The Department of Libraries has received more than 1 1/2 million dollars this year and is asking... 5618@http://importance.corante.com/ Blink › 2005-05-13T16:40:01-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/06/23/happy_birthday_alan_turing.php Today, Alan Turing, one of the formative giants of the computer age, a man who saved many lives during WW2 and helped ensure victory for the Allies, would have been 92. That is, if he hadn't been hounded to suicide... 5165@http://importance.corante.com/ Gay Rights 2004-06-23T17:53:01-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/04/06/lynne_cheney_feminist_hypocrite.php USA Today is running a story on the recent decision by publisher New American Library to cancel plans to republish a novel (Sisters) featuring positive portrayals of proto-feminists, prostitutes and lesbians (Publisher cancels reissue of racy novel by Lynne Cheney).... 5090@http://importance.corante.com/ Gay Rights 2004-04-06T22:33:17-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/03/05/if_marriage_is_for_the_children_we_must_allow_gay_marriage.php I'm really not that familiar with family law and only skimmed the literature so I probably have no idea what I'm talking about, but ... Why haven't the children of a committed gay couple sued to let their parents get... 5020@http://importance.corante.com/ Gay Rights 2004-03-05T06:50:21-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/03/02/volokhs_amendment.php Eugene Volokh is an ultra smart guy and cool person. Yet I just don't understand his position on gay marriage, which he does not seem to personally oppose. Like many opponents of gay marriage, however, he does not think that... 5008@http://importance.corante.com/ Gay Rights 2004-03-02T08:10:46-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/02/29/the_miller_marriage_amendment.php According to the New York Times (reg. req.) a number of state legislators are taking up the issue of gay marriage and many are proposing state constitutional amendments against the practice (won't those states look foolish and backwards in 20... 5005@http://importance.corante.com/ Gay Rights 2004-02-29T13:04:52-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/02/27/the_antimiscegenation_amendment.php I discovered an interesting fact in reading yesterday's Washington Post (reg. req.) letters to the editor section (Letters to the Editor: Expanding the Definition of Marriage). In December of 1912, an amendment to the Constitution was introduced to abolish racial... 4997@http://importance.corante.com/ Gay Rights 2004-02-27T05:50:50-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/02/26/what_is_marriage.php One of the underlying disputes in the debates about homosexual marriage is what, exactly, is marriage? So asks and answers Donald Sensing in an essay on his One Hand Clapping blog (What makes a thing a thing?). For Sensing, marriage... 4994@http://importance.corante.com/ Gay Rights 2004-02-26T06:13:44-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/02/25/the_moderate_position_on_gay_marriage.php It has now become the consensus "moderate" position, at least according to prominent members of both major political parties, that while "marriage" is only between a man and woman, some form of "civil union" for gay couples might be acceptable.... 4993@http://importance.corante.com/ Gay Rights 2004-02-25T17:58:55-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/02/25/why_the_fma_would_be_the_death_of_marriage.php Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this Constitution or the constitution of any State, nor state or federal law, shall be construed to require that marital status or... 4992@http://importance.corante.com/ Gay Rights 2004-02-25T01:25:58-08:00 http://importance.corante.com/archives/2004/02/24/constitutional_obedience_in_sf.php Although this blog is generally concerned with technology, law and policy, it is, in fact, most concerned about our civil liberties. I emphasize technology and the digital age in my postings because that is what I best know. However, I... 4990@http://importance.corante.com/ Gay Rights 2004-02-24T21:57:20-08:00