Tuesday, Jack Landau, an Oregon Court of Appeals judge defeated Allan J. Arlow to win a seat on the Oregon State Supreme Court, Landau having authored a historic opinion in 1998, in the case of Tanner v OHSU, which ruled that the Oregon Health Services University could not discriminate against gay and lesbian couples when offering health care benefits. His opinion in that case, carefully read, suggests Landau leans towards favouring legalizing gay marriage.
Logan, Utah City Council Tuesday passed anti-discrimination similar to one recently passed in Salt Lake City that prohibits employers and landlords from discriminating against gays, lesbians, and transgendered individuals. Despite cries from some in the community that the government should not be in the business of mandating who an employer can or cannot hire, most were pleased with the outcome, while for others the ordinances underlined an inequality that may have gone unnoticed. “I wasn’t aware that there was a problem because the people who suffered the injury just found a different job, found a different place to live,” said Gail Hansen, a resident of Logan for thirty years, who says she has been enlightened by the support for the ordinances. “I was reminded,” she said” that our constitution was enacted in order to establish justice ...”
The National Organization for Marriage announced Tuesday that it regards Minnesota as the latest battleground state in the fight over gay marriage, and that the anti-gay group intends to spend an estimated $200,000 in television advertising opposing any and all attempt to redefine marriage. The ad calls for a vote on the issue, urging that a constitutional amendment be passed by voters that define marriage as that existing only between one man and one woman. The campaign also targets four candidates for governor who support gay equality.
NOM’s announcement arrives only a week after three Minnesota gay couples filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutional validity of the state’s ban on gay marriage, but it appears that the suit has little support from OutFront Minnesota, that state’s most influential gay rights group, who oppose the suit, insisting that the effort is at best misguided, and runs the risk of setting back efforts to attend full gay equality in a kind of piecemeal manner.
With George Alan Rekers, who presented himself as something of an expert witness on homosexuality, revealed to little more than a fraud, what about the trials he had directly or indirectly influenced? And why he never vetted by those who hired him to testify?
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