Slap Upside The Head: Obama Backs Marriage Equality

Barack Obama announced his personal support of marriage equality yesterday, making him the first U.S. president to do so. Political analysts are already speculating on how this will affect November’s elections, although I don’t really expect that rabidly anti-gay voters would have supported Obama anyway. Still, in the off chance

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Slap Upside The Head: DOMA Ruled Unconstitutional

A US federal court has ruled that the country’s Defense of Marriage Act—a law forbidding any federal recognition of same-sex relationships—isĀ unconstitutional. Judge Jeffrey White, a Bush appointee, issued the ruling today on the basis that DOMA violates theĀ constitution’sĀ guarantees of equality. Congratulations, Americans: Your backwards prejudices are shedding faster than a

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