Guest anonone Posted June 25, 2013 Posted June 25, 2013 *(Supreme Court of the United States) Some chatter that the long awaited DOMA decision might happen tomorrow (Tuesday). http://news.yahoo.com/chat-about-the-supreme-court-ruling-with-scotusblog-experts-201912869.html The Supreme Court is expected to hand down several rulings Tuesday, two of which have the potential to drastically expand the rights of gays and lesbians in the country. Many previous posts in this thread http://www.gaythailand.com/forums/topic/8680-obama-administration-weighs-in-on-defense-of-marriage-law/ Including some friendly wagers and much predicting of the outcome... "Expert" consensus is the judgement will be narrow and cautious. I really hope the experts are wrong. This is just plain discrimination and needs to end now. Here is hoping..... Quote
Guest anonone Posted June 25, 2013 Posted June 25, 2013 Well, didn't happen today. Court has announced tomorrow is the day that the decision will be announced. See what happens tomorrow. Quote
Bob Posted June 25, 2013 Posted June 25, 2013 The Court will begin reading of the two decisions at 10AM (EST) tomorrow. That'll be 9PM in Thailand. Quote
Guest travelerjim Posted June 26, 2013 Posted June 26, 2013 NBC has a SCOTUS blog link which will enable you to see the opinions as handed down. http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/03/18661475-live-scotusblog-coverage-of-supreme-court?pc=25&sp=50#discussion_nav Tuesday, I noted when reading the minute by minute happenings for SCOTUS... an expert commentator said that Justice Kennedy will be reading the decision about gay marriage on Wednesday morning. That may be a clue as to the direction of the decision... as Justice Kennedy has been said to be the swing vote on the court in the case. Soon we will know. tj Quote
Guest travelerjim Posted June 26, 2013 Posted June 26, 2013 Orion over at Baht Stop has posted this message... http://www.baht-stop.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=14438&pid=67568&st=25&&do=findComment&comment=67568 The Supreme Court handed down several decisions on Tuesday morning, including a 5-4 decision striking down Section 4 of the Voters' Right Act, but no decisions on the two gay marriage cases. Given the protocol of court decisions, it's now being speculated by court watchers that the Chief Justice has written the majority opinion in the California gay marriage case and Justice Kennedy has written the majority opinion in the DOMA case.The Court has just announced that the decisions in the gay marriage cases will be read on Wednesday morning at 10AM. ---------------------------------- With Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kennedy to read the decisions for the majority... just maybe there is hope that we will win both cases...CA & DOMA too. We will soon know...or might it be another song re-play of "California Dreaming" ??? tj Quote
Rogie Posted July 3, 2013 Posted July 3, 2013 There was a good letter in Britain's Guardian newspaper yesterday, and as their website has links to the letters page I've copied and pasted below: Pride in gay rights "As a British historian of black civil rights currently in Washington DC and watching the genuine excitement following the supreme court's decision to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act (Report, 27 June), I feel it is an important moment to understand the civil rights and human implications. Bayard Rustin, a key civil rights tactician who organised the march on Washington in 1963, was persecuted due to being African American and for his political links to communism – but also due to his homosexuality. In the early 1980s, he said the barometer for civil rights in the US was changing focus upon how its gay citizens were treated – this was as the HIV/Aids epidemic struck an increasingly conservative America. In the 1950s Rustin had a relationship with Tom Kahn, a white student radical – breaking a lot of social taboos at the time. Kahn had been struggling with his sexuality but upon meeting Rustin embraced his identity fully and engaged in the civil rights struggle in all its social and economic forms. Apparently Kahn went to a psychiatrist in 1956 to try and understand his sexual identity – the diagnosis was "you're in love". After the legal decisions last week and all the bluster of social conservatives, the simple diagnosis for America could not, perhaps, be simpler." Dr Lee Sartain University of Portsmouth Quote
