What married same-sex couples owe to hippie communes

I'm guessing most married same-sex couples think they have little in common with the hippie communes of the 1960's and 70's. Free-loving hippies challenged the fabric of American society, including the nuclear family, while most married same-sex couples, or at least the organizations that speak for them, are busy presenting gay marriage as anything but a threat to heterosexual family life.Well,

William L. Taylor, 1931-2010

Civil rights lawyer, William L. (Bill) Taylor, died today at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland. I knew him also as the father of Lauren Taylor, one of my oldest friends.Bill was responsible for the strategy that, in 1987, led the Senate to defeat President Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork to sit on the Supreme Court. The Justice we got instead was Anthony Kennedy, author of the Court's

Alliance for Justice report on potential Supreme Court nominee Leah Sears underestimates her hostility to gay and lesbian families

The Alliance for Justice released reports yesterday on thirteen possible nominees for the Supreme Court position being vacated by Justice Stevens. The Alliance for Justice is my favorite Washington DC-based group. (This year they are honoring long-time gay rights activist Urvashi Vaid at their spring luncheon, and cast members from Law and Order will be there -- so get your tickets now!)Leah

Why I will miss Justice Souter

In 1987, less than a year after the Supreme Court decided Bowers v. Hardwick, then New Hampshire Supreme Court Justice David Souter joined four other justices in declaring constitutional the state's ban on adoption and foster parenting by gay men and lesbians. The state said its reason for the law was the importance of providing "appropriate role models" for children. The court found that