U.S. SUPREME COURT - Gay Rights Advocates Seize on Justice Ginsburg’s ‘Time Bomb’ - By Debra Cassens Weiss – July 20, 2010 – ABA Journal

Gay rights advocates are buoyed by a statement in a majority opinion written by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a decision upholding a law school’s decision to refuse recognition to a Christian legal group that excluded gays and nonbelievers.

Ginsburg’s statement in the 5-4 decision Christian Legal Society v. Martinez “was resolutely bland and nicely hidden,” the New York Times reports. Some compared it the hidden “time bombs” contained in the opinions of Justice William J. Brennan Jr., whose seemingly casual statements or footnotes would be cited to extend the law in future cases.

This is what Ginsburg wrote in a portion of the opinion discussing laws that affect gays and lesbians: “Our decisions have declined to distinguish between status and conduct in this context.” The sentence is important, the Times explains, because courts are more likely to protect groups whose characteristics are immutable, rather than a choice. Read more –

http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/gay-rights_advocates_seize_on_justice_ginsburgs_time_bomb/

Gay marriage - Sexual orientation

is less about sex and more about love,

being one with another human being - Attachment Theory

- LOVE & RELIGION –

http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/08/gay-marriage-sexual-orientation-is-less_3483.html

Auschwitz - Christmas 2008

 A flashback far more severe than in

Brokeback Mountain

http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/06/auschwitz-christmas-2008-flashback-far.html

Looking for Time Bombs and Tea Leaves on Gay Marriage

By Adam Liptak – July 19, 2010

The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/us/politics/20bar.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1279620122-kiRhEEWQy2Mr/1mNN4rf1w#

Gay Marriage -> Restores “Hope of Love”

To Children In Early Childhood

http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/08/gay-marriage-restores-hope-of-love-to.html

Gay Marriage - Galileo Condemned As A Heretic

Misinterpretations of The Bible

Homosexuality? Natural Law? Benedict XVI?

Kids Are Being Hurt!!!

http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/08/gay-marriage-galileo-condemned-as.html

Gay marriage

“Religious beliefs that gay and lesbian relationships are sinful or inferior to heterosexual relationships harm gays and lesbians.”

Judge Vaughn Walker

http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/08/gay-marriage-religious-beliefs-that-gay.html

American Bar Association (ABA)

Backs Marriage Equality for Gays and Lesbians

ABA Journal

http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/aba_backs_marriage_equality_for_gays_and_lesbians

Campaigns Against “Gay Marriage” Have Been A Vehicle

To Convey Certain People Into Political Office

http://fathermartykurylowicz.blogspot.com/2010/08/campaigns-against-gay-marriage-have.html

Same-sex marriage - The Big Picture 

August 4, 2010 - Boston.com

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/same-sex_marriage.html

Same-Sex Marriages Should Be Allowed, Schwarzenegger Says 

By Edvard Pettersson – August 7, 2010

BusinessWeek

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-08-07/same-sex-marriages-should-be-allowed-schwarzenegger-says.html 

Prop. 8 overturned: Why Vaughn Walker ruled against gay-marriage ban 

By Warren Richey – August 4, 2010

The Christian Science Monitor

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2010/0804/Prop.-8-overturned-Why-Vaughn-Walker-ruled-against-gay-marriage-ban

Prop 8 ruled unconstitutional as lacking rational basis

 Nan Hunter - Professor, Georgetown Law, Washington, DC

hunter of justice

http://hunterforjustice.typepad.com/hunter_of_justice/2010/08/prop-8-ruled-unconstitutional-as-lacking-rational-basis.html

Gay Marriage Ruling A Matter of Simple Justice

by Geoffrey R. Stone - law professor at the University of Chicago

Chicago Tribune

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-oped-0808-stone-20100808,0,2223308.story