The Traditional Values Coalition seems to view unimprisoned gays and the “transgender agenda” as threats to its vision for the United States. Here’s what TVC is up to. Given how much is happening this week, I don’t have time to…
FRC Redefines Civil Marriage
FRC dictates “The Meaning of Marriage.” Colin Stewart, executive vice president of the Family Research Council, pens a comparison between marriage and Humpty Dumpty. However, some might argue that reducing marriage to a children’s fable poses a greater threat to…
Gay Teenager’s Prison Term Voided
In 2000, 18-year-old Matthew Limon was sentenced to prison in Kansas for having voluntary oral sex with someone three years younger. Both teen-agers were developmentally disabled. Heterosexual teen-agers would have been sentenced to a maximum of a year and three…
NYT Doesn’t Know What A Conservative Is
An article in today’s New York Times interviews “conservatives” who are uniformly angry at the Supreme Court ruling against sodomy laws. However, all the interviewees appear to be Big Government moral conservatives employed by the religious right. No economic, small-government,…
Ex-Gay Difference of Opinion on Sodomy Ruling
Two top Exodus officials seem to be saying very different things, in reaction to the Supreme Court ruling against Texas’ sodomy law. Mike Airhart offered an optimistic assessment earlier. However… While spokesman Randy Thomas avoids moral absolutism and echoes Clarence…
In a Focus on the Family article, moral conservatives argue that the Supreme Court ruling on sodomy laws is a loss for gay activists. They say the ruling leaves gays without a key political tool — equal protection — that…
White House: No Comment on Sodomy Ruling
Press Briefing by Ari Fleischer, June 26, 2003: QUESTION: And on the Texas sodomy case, does the President believe that gay men have the legal right to have sexual relations in the privacy of their own home? MR. FLEISCHER: I…
Salon.com Commentaries on Sodomy Ruling
The next war: Bush and the Supreme Court With William Rehnquist and Sandra Day O’Connor considering retirement, activists on all sides are preparing for a firefight over Bush’s next high-court nominee. By Tim Grieve “Caving in to the ‘homosexual agenda’”…
Public-domain quotes from the Associated Press: “This is a giant leap forward to a day where we are no longer branded as criminals.” – Ruth Harlow, an attorney for the plaintiffs in the case and legal director at Lambda Legal….
From Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, June 26, 2003: In 2001, a blue ribbon panel of military law experts called for repeal of the sodomy statute on the fiftieth anniversary of the UCMJ, calling its enforcement “arbitrary, even vindictive.” The armed…