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The Supreme Court just did the right thing and struck a huge blow for LGBTQ equality. But the other letters in that group need help too. Friday’s 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court ruling made same-sex marriage officially legal nationwide. Great. What’s next? The Court closed the case of Obergefell v. Hodges, ruling that the Equal Protection…
In a landmark decision, the US Supreme Court on June 26 struck down states’ same-sex marriage bans, effectively bringing marriage equality to the entire US. “No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family,” Justice Anthony Kennedy, who joined the court’s liberals in the majority…
About the case Same-sex couples can marry in three dozen states, but federal appeals courts have been divided over whether states must allow same-sex couples to marry and recognize such marriages performed elsewhere. In three earlier decisions, the Supreme Court has expanded the rights of gay Americans. Scores of friend-of-the-court briefs were filed on both…
Oh my stars, it seems America’s most virginal born-again virgin is with child. Again: I wanted you guys to be the first to know that I am pregnant. Honestly, I’ve been trying my hardest to keep my chin up on this one. At the end of the day there’s nothing I can’t do with God…
(JDHancock/flickr) If Ariel had normal-sized eyes, we might be less endeared to her—forced to focus more immediately on her disconcerting scaly tail. If Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg were a Disney Princess, as one artist recently rendered her, she’d have no wrinkles, a smirk on her face, and some décolletage. Buzzfeed And…
11 Disney Princesses Whose Eyes Are Literally Bigger Than Their Stomachs Hungry, gals? You must be, because these animated Disney kweens’ eyes are literally bigger than their stomachs. I can’t wait to buy my daughter a waist trainer for her Jasmine Halloween costume!! Tiana Aurora (Sleeping Beauty) Rapunzel Pocahontas Meg…
Alleged Charleston gunman Dylann Roof wrote that he was never the same after discovering a website with “pages upon pages of these brutal black on white murders.” The pages that left Roof in disbelief were the product of a white-nationalist group subsidized by American taxpayers. The Council of Conservative Citizens Inc. is listed by the Internal Revenue…
The day before my friend Tayler Smith and I found out our photo series was appropriated into the New Yorker, I woke up to a text message from another friend. We’re psychic sisters; she has a nightmare one night, I have one the morning after. Her message was a two-liner: “I see your imprint everywhere….
On Thursday morning’s “Fox & Friends,” hosts Steve Doocy, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Brian Kilmeade demonstrated a fairly impressive feat for a five-minute segment, denying that racism is a widespread problem in the U.S. then swiftly arguing that it isn’t their fault they didn’t know Dylann Storm Roof, the Charleston shooter, was a white supremacist. Hasselbeck…