The Spencer Hamilton Blog

1996 The Supreme Court rules that making gays strangers to the law is unconstitutional in Romer v. Evans . They overturn Amendment 2 from CO which bans any municipality or the state from enacting sexual orientation protections and also bars the three branches of government from granting relief 2003 Lawrence v Texas establishes a right to privacy for consensual non commercial sex between the same gender 2004 MA Supreme Judicial Court says the mini DOMA the state has is unconstitutional, later that year 11 states put bans in their state constitutions 2008 FL & CA put a DOMA in their constitution and AR passes an adoption ban 2008 CT becomes another state to recognize marriage between gay and lesbian couples in their 4-3 Kerrigan decision 2009 Iowa becomes the first Midwestern state to rule that their statutory DOMA is unconstitutional in a unanimous ruling 2010 Ted Olson and David Boies come together to challenge Prop 8. In a 13 day case starting in Janu...

Hello All, I had seen a lot of stories on this event and I have to say one thing: About time. I personally am sick and tired of hate exporters who like to go to other underdeveloped countries and exploit the religious nature of the people in that country and pass unconstitutional laws that will not only criminalize but many times call for the death penalty against gay 'activity' or 'behavior'. I put that in quotes because a lot of times one can tell you exactly what it is outside of something sexual. Scott Lively is such a person who testifies in such countries, like Latvia and other Eastern European countries that have a more conservative bend to them and peddling lies that mobilize the religious right here. Echoing things that Prop 8 supporters said time and time again about children being harmed by just knowing that gay families exist, that if marriage equality is enacted pedophiles will have access to our children, that children will grow up wondering if they sho...