Politics

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — President Barack Obama is calling on Congress to pass a law extending benefits to same-sex partners, a day after he renewed his support for repealing the ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in the military. Obama was responding to a question during a town hall meeting Thursday in Tampa, Fla..

NEWS UPDATE ON DADT FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell says the Defense Department next week will say for the first time how it would lift the ban on gays from serving openly in the military, as President Barack Obama wants. Morrell says that after studying the issue for

  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The first federal case to decide if the U.S. Constitution prevents states from stopping same-sex weddings came to an anti-climatic break Wednesday after a judge heard nearly 12 days of wide-ranging testimony on the meaning of marriage, the nature of sexual orientation, and the role of religion in shaping attitudes

It appears that Wednesday, January 27th, will be the last day of evidence in the Prop 8 Trial in SF. The judge has indicated that he will take a few weeks off to review the evidence before scheduling the closing arguments. It’s unsure if he will immediately return a ruling or if there will be

  FYI:  It’s been reported that once both sides have rested in the Prop 8 trial, the judge will take a "few weeks" off to consider the case, then return for closing arguments, then rule in the case. I’ve yet to find an answer to whether the ruling will be immediate or if there will

College Professor Kenneth Miller was brought to the stand yesterday by the defense in the current Prop 8 trial. The point of his testimony yesterday was to say that gays had significant political power. Today, attorneys for the plaintiff’s worked diligently to draw statements from Miller which support that theory that Prop 8 was motivated

STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH IS SCHEDULED FOR THIS WEDNESDAY WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama is expected to talk about the "Don’t ask, don’t tell" rule that bars openly gay Americans from serving in the military during his State of the Union address this week, a senior lawmaker said on Monday. During his 2008

  On Monday, January 25th, the 10th day of the Prop 8 case being heard in San Francisco, Ted Olson and David Boies, attorneys for the plaintiffs, rested their case. Now, the defense team makes their case… The Washington Post reports… Kenneth Miller, a professor at Claremont McKenna College who teaches California politics and researches