A Federal Court Rules That Utah Can Defund Planned Parenthood
A federal court says Utah can end its contracts with Planned Parenthood.
D.C. Council: Religious Schools Must Adopt Its Views on Sexual Morality
In a unanimous vote earlier this week, the D.C. Council passed legislation repealing “the exemption allowing religiously-affiliated educational institutions to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation.” The repealed exemption ...
What Happened with Polygamy Law in Utah?
The decision by a Utah court yesterday regarding polygamy law only finalized a decision the court had made in December 2013, officially closing the case so the state can appeal to ...
The Price of Citizenship Is Rising in New Mexico
The New Mexico Supreme Court (one of whose members recently announced that the “price of citizenship” included not acting on your beliefs in the public square) has just announced that ...
The Fruits of Lawlessness
In the past few weeks, county clerks in New Mexico and Pennsylvania have announced they will issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples despite lacking any legal authority to do so. ...
On Gay Marriage, the ‘State Law Shoe’ Drops in Ohio
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision (Windsor v. United States) striking down part of the Defense of Marriage Act, there have been at least five lawsuits filed ...
Windsor‘s Marriage Assumptions
To judge from most of the media coverage, today’s Supreme Court decisions in the marriage cases were supposed to give us a final answer on whether the U.S. Constitution requires ...
Targeting the Scouts
Following closely on the decision of the Boy Scouts of America to retain its longstanding policy of requiring leaders to adhere to the organization’s policies regarding sexual morality, the California ...
Tell Us What You Really Think, Your Honor
Earlier this week, the Montana Supreme Court made an initial determination in a case seeking a court order that the state’s failure to offer the incidents of marriage to same-sex ...
In Other Michigan News: University Backs Off Expulsion of Student
In 2009, Julea Ward, a graduate student at Eastern Michigan University, was dismissed from the school’s counseling program after asking for permission to refer a client to another counselor because ...