During her Monday night MSNBC show, Rachel Maddow geared up for the oral arguments that the Supreme Court will hear Tuesday on California's Prop. 8, h...
Former Bush administration Solicitor General Ted Olson, who will argue against California's ban on gay marriage before the Supreme Court next month, s...
Yesterday the president said, "The urgency of the hour demands that we fight discrimination, whatever form it may come." He's said the same thing more times than I can count. Martin Luther King Jr. talked the talk. He also walked the walk.
Although Ted Olsen has made out a powerful and persuasive case for holding laws banning same-sex marriage unconstitutional, he has not made "The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage."
Not that long ago, gay marriage was a dependable wedge issue Republicans could use to keep its base in line. But now that wedge is clearly splintering.