The Debate Link

Today, the Respect for Marriage Act passed the House  by a 267-157 vote. Forty seven Republicans voted in favor of the bill, dwarfed by the ...

The Supreme Court  has issued its long-anticipated decision in the Masterpiece Cake  case  (where a Christian baker refused to make a weddin...

I vaguely remember the first time I thought about gay marriage as a political issue. I was either in middle school or early high school (so ...

Rep. Steve King (R-IA) : Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis is a latter-day Rosa Parks. Kim Davis : Don't compare me to that layabout. Sh...

I've been busy basking in the glow of my status as a big magazine contributor. That means that I haven't had as much time to do reg...

I stated a few days ago my belief that Obergefell will be a Lawrence and not a Roe . By that I mean that I believe Obergefell effectivel...

It's an interesting fact about history that nobody cares about process. If, say, the Constitution supplanted the Articles of Confederati...

Exams are graded and turned in. I've yet to have an angry mob of students assail my office door (or email inbox). And my browser is star...

It won't really matter, because the Supreme Court will have the last word soon enough, but the 8th Circuit has released its panel assign...

Just because I'm a big Jewish media star doesn't mean that I don't have time for the little people my loyal readers . Here are...

Noah Feldman has a Bloomberg column up provcatively titled "Obamacare May Die So Gay Marriage Survives". The idea behind it is th...

Though put in the words of a character, I think we can fairly ascribe this as Judge Kopf's prediction regarding how the Supreme Court w...

In Arizona, the Republican attorney general has declined to appeal a district court decision striking down the state's gay marriage ban...

On occasion of the 7th Circuit opinion in Baskin v. Bogan striking down gay marriage bans, and this afternoon's 9th Circuit arguments ...

New poll data indicates that 50% of Americans believe that the Constitution protects the right to gay marriage (41% disagree). This is of c...

Over the past decade, polling on same-sex marriage has seen a dramatic swing. Once a marginal, even fringe position, support for gay marriag...

PPP : Sixty-six percent of Nevada Republicans support legalized brothels (same percentage as Democrats), but only 20% of them support same-s...

A new poll finds , once again, that Jews harbor opinions well to the left of the American mainstream on a host of issues. Nearly 70% favor g...

As you may have heard, the 1st Circuit in an opinion by Judge Boudin just struck down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (defining ma...

"To die for an idea," Anatole France once wrote, "is to place a pretty high value upon conjecture." Presumably this goes...