Outside the Beltway

Rush Limbaugh may be a jerk, but he has a right to be a jerk.

Another Federal Court rules in favor of marriage equality, and the biggest news is how unsurprising the outcome of the case is.

A victory for proponents of same-sex marriage today in the Ninth Circuit.

Ron Paul’s opposition to the Fourteenth Amendment would make a Paul Administration an enemy of civil liberties.

Does the 10th Amendment contain the answer to the same-sex marriage debate? Not really.

It won’t go anywhere this year, but after 15 years someone is finally trying to repeal a bad law.

The star of a controversial reality show about polygamy is suing to have Utah’s law that makes his living arrangement illegal struck down.

A Federal Appeals Court struck down an Amendment to the Michigan Constitution today as unconstitutional.

A very provocative decision on same-sex marriage from an unlikely source.

We’ve reached a turning point in the debate over same-sex marriage.

Thanks to an appearance on Hardball we’ve got another story about a 47 year old law.

A look at history reveals that President Obama’s decision to decline to defend Section Three of DOMA is hardly unprecedented.

Huge news in the marriage equality debate today as the Obama Administration has decided not to defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court anymore.

In a new interview, Justice Antonin Scalia says that the 14th Amendment does not bar discrimination against women, whether it’s done by public or private entities. He couldn’t be more wrong.

What the Haley Barbour situation illustrates is that we, as a country, have not fully accepted or dealt with our own past.

California’s Proposition 8 faced another legal test in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday, and the day didn’t seem to go well for opponents of same-sex marriage.

Further thoughts on a rather radical proposed Amendment to the Constitution, prompted by a link from Instapundit.

It’s not hypocritical or racist to support an aggressive pursuit of terrorists while getting outraged over abuses of Americans’ liberties.

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says there is no governmental or public interest in continuing a ban on gay marriage. But what about the will of his constituents?

U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker today declared California’s Proposition 8 to be unconstitutional, thus opening the latest front in the gay marriage wars.

Yesterday’s ruling by a federal judge declaring the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional is likely to collapse on appeal.

A district court judge has issued a ruling that could have wide ramifications for the question of same-sex marriage.

Laura Sjoberg informs us that she is working to form a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, Queer, and Allies Caucus of the International Studies Association .