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:Eric Ethington (Author) | August 4, 2011
Baltimore, Maryland – One of the attacker’s involved in the merciless attack of a Transgender woman at a McDonald’s has pled guilty. She was charged with 1st-Degree Assault and a Hate Crime. According to the Baltimore Sun: Prosecutors expect to seek a prison term of five years when Brown is sentenced next month. If you [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | April 11, 2011
Arizona – The 9th Circuit Appellate Court has upheld a lower ruling against the State’s infamous SB1070 immigration bill. They have also ruled against Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s instruction to police to arrest people they “reasonably believe” to be illegal immigrants. Once again, the courts have upheld the constitution which states that immigration is a [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | February 25, 2011
New York – Kenneth Ranftle and J. Craig Leiby were married in Canada back in 2008. That same year Kenneth passed away and Mr. Leiby began a 2 year court battle for inheritance rights. Finally an appellate court came back last night with a ruling in his favor! The ruling is being seen as a [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | February 23, 2011
Don’t even try to figure out the Department of Justice. In the same day that President Obama instructs them to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act in court, we find out that the DOJ is also still defending Don’t Ask Don’t Tell in court, even though its been repealed. When Congress repealed Don’t Ask [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | February 14, 2011
Arizona – Last year the Arizona Legislature passed a measure stripping same-sex couples of benefits. The bill was overturned in federal court as unconstitutional, but Arizona isn’t giving up. They’ve just filed an appeal of the ruling, trying once again to strip citizens of rights. Same-sex partners of state employees are at risk of losing [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | January 31, 2011
President Obama has played a never ending game of teeter-totter since he became a candidate. He supports repealing DOMA but wants to defend it in court; He supports civil unions but not gay marriage (even though he did 15 years ago). But two lawsuits may force him to decide. Just or unjust Mr. President? The [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | January 21, 2011
Augusta, Maine – The National Organization For Marriage (NOM), is back in court once again trying to keep the identites of their donors secret. This has been dragging out for several years now, with NOM coming dangerously close to contempt of court for refusing to comply. State law dictates that any organization which spends more than [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | January 11, 2011
California – The Log Cabin Republicans, who are bringing the primary lawsuit against Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, have filed papers with the 9th District Court demanding that they keep the court case going until the Pentagon completes the repeal. The Justice Department wants the case dismissed. The Log Cabin Republicans want to make sure that [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | January 10, 2011
Saskatchewan, Canada – The Court of Appeals has just ruled against a government marriage commissioner who was refusing to marry same sex couples on religious grounds. After nearly 9 months of deliberation, religious beliefs are not a reason for a government official to discriminate. Very important distinction here folks, this is not a ban on [...]
Eric Ethington (Author) | December 27, 2010
Australia – A court has given permission to a church-run adoption agency to continue discriminating against gay couples, even though national law requires that no agency discriminate. Sigh… just one week after the same state, New South Wales (NSW), saw its first gay adoption. Apparently neither the sitting party in NSW or the opposing party have any [...]
"Eric, trying to have this (civil rights) conversation with you is ultimately like trying to teach a pig to dance, it just annoys the pig. So Eric, sorry to annoy you."
-Paul Mero, The Sutherland Institute.