All posts tagged "Proposition"

Well, my plans to blog some of the best of 2011 totally fell apart, and for that I apologize. I thought I would make it up to you by compiling a list of some of my favorite (or most disturbing) moments in sexual misinformation. These are some of the strangest, most dunderheaded, or most appalling falsehoods of the year, at least when it comes to doin' it. You'd think Americans in 2011 wouldn't be so dumb, but sadly, we have a long way to go before we start getting smarter about sex. 

A federal judge in San Francisco on Tuesday upheld retired Judge Vaughn R. Walker ruling on California's Proposition 8, after supporters of the measure accused Walker of being prejudiced in the case.

U.S. District Chief Judge James Ware said during a court hearing Monday that there was no evidence that retired Judge Vaughn R. Walker should have recused himself from the Proposition 8 trial.

Conservatives in California, incensed by a U.S. District Judge who overturned the state's ban on same-sex marriage, are claiming in an appeal that the decision should be nullified because the judge is actually a gay man.

LOS ANGELES – California's attorney general called on a US federal court Tuesday to suspend a ban on gay marriages in the western US state, pending a long-running appeals process.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Gay marriage supporters asked a federal appeals court on Wednesday to allow an order lifting California's gay marriage ban to take effect right away, according to a court filing.