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DALLAS — Gay couples legally married in other states cannot get a divorce in Texas, where same-sex marriage is banned, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday. The 5th Texas Court of Appeals ruled that a Dallas district court judge didn’t have the authority to hear a divorce case involving two Dallas men who married in [...]
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WorldNetDaily and Ann Coulter have been the best of buddies for years. WND is one of the few online outlets allowed to post Coulter’s syndicated column the evening before print outlets get it, and WND even restored an insult of Helen Thomas her syndicator had edited out. But in the past couple of weeks, the [...]
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Fight Back New York is starting a website peeking in Sen. Ruben Diaz’s political closet, so to speak. FBNY has been raising money to fight state senators who opposed same-sex marriage when the issue came to the floor last year. The group created a website, truthaboutdiaz.com, designed to be a central clearning house of opposition [...]
about 6 days ago - 1 comment
SAN FRANCISCO — A retired Presbyterian minister was found guilty of misconduct Friday by a church court for officiating the weddings of 16 gay couples when same-sex marriage was legal in California. A regional commission of the Presbyterian Church (USA) ruled 4-2 that the Rev. Jane Spahr of San Francisco “persisted in a pattern or [...]
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We talked this week with A.C. Thompson, one of the reporters from ProPublica who has been investigating the New Orleans Police Department in the years since Hurricane Katrina. He has been exploring reports of specific acts of excessive force used by the department, as well as the factors that could have created a culture where [...]
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This could get unpleasant. A reader passed along a mailer about Queens state Sen. Shirley Huntley, who — as Lisa L. Colangelo and I blogged recently — held a press conference saying she would not be deterred by a death threat she received at her Jamaica home. The threat came in the form of a [...]
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In the weeks since Judge Vaughn Walker found California’s gay marriage ban unconstitutional, the Right Wing has, unsurprisingly, worked itself into a characteristic bigoted bluster. But this time, something about the bluster is different. The Right’s early reactions to the decision in Perry v. Schwarzenegger ranged from the purely vitriolic: The American Family Association: “[Judge [...]
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We are so happy that our favorite chic-cheap-hipster store has found itself dead center in the middle of controversy as a result of the new Supreme Court ruling that allows corporations to contribute freely to political causes. Trend setters that they are, Target was one of the first to take advantage of this ruling by [...]
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Most Americans think the country is on the wrong track. It ought to be comforting, then, that so many are also absolutely certain they know what to do about it. With determination, data and no lack of emotion, they have the solution for health care, the deficit, illegal immigration, same-sex marriage, abortion, gun control, taxes, [...]
about 2 weeks ago - 1 comment
In the movement to legalize same-sex marriages in the United States, the religious right has proven a formidable and unwavering foe, and their victory in delaying the repeal of California’s Proposition 8 is persuasive evidence. Since the same-sex marriage movement began in earnest some 40 years ago, religious leaders have prevented all but five states [...]
about 1 month ago
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about 2 weeks ago
Go the the clerk of the court and fill out a requisition for the file. Be prepared with government-issued photo ID, because matrimonial files are always under a confidentiality seal and nobody gets the file unless authorized by a party to the suit, the attorneys of record in the suit, or by court order.