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The War on the Private Mind
There are two easy ways to get a Republican to roll over and put his paws up in the air: The first is to write him a check, which is the political version of scratching his belly, and the second is to call him a bigot. In both cases, it helps if you have a great deal of money behind you.
Posted in Religious Liberty
Tagged Adlai Stevenson, Asa Hutchison, Bull Connor, C. Douglas McMillon, Dan Savage, Ellen DeGeneres, Mike Pence, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, RFRA, Tim Cook
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Saying No to Rogue Federal Judges
Many of us have wondered how long it would be before a prominent official proclaimed that rogue federal judges, like the proverbial emperor, have no clothes and thus no authority to make up laws.
That’s what Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore did this past week in a letter to Alabama Governor Robert Bentley, in which he began by asserting that “the recent ruling of Judge Callie Granade … has raised serious, legitimate concerns about the propriety of federal court jurisdiction over the Alabama Sanctity of Marriage Amendment.”
In 2006, Alabama voters approved the marriage measure by 81 percent to …
Posted in Federal
Tagged Alabama, Bull Connor, Callie Granade, Chief Justice Roy Moore, Elena Kagan, George W. Bush, Judges and Courts, Marriage, Murphy v. Ramsey, Robert Bentley, Roy Moore, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Same-sex marriage
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