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• GAY MARRIAGE THE US SUPREME COURT: OBERGEFELL V. HODG
• REPUBLINS SIGN BRIEF SUPPORT OF GAY MARRIAGE
• THOANDS SIGN URT BRIEFS SUPPORTG GAY MARRIAGE
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE
• REPUBLINS SUPPORTG GAY MARRIAGE WRE SUPREME COURT AMIC BRIEF
• TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT
• LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS
• THE PRO-FREEDOM REPUBLINS ARE COMG: 131 SIGN GAY MARRIAGE BRIEFPRO-FREEDOMNEARLY 60 NEW REPUBLINS HAVE SIGNED AN AMIC BRIEF SUPPORT OF THE EEDOM TO MARRY. BY JOHN AVLON.JOHN AVLONUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 1:04AM EDT / PUBLISHED FEB. 28, 2013 1:30PM EST BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/GETTYONE HUNDRED THIRTY-ONE REPUBLINS SIGNED AN AMIC BRIEF SUBMTED TO THE SUPREME COURT ON THURSDAY ARGUG THAT MARRIAGE IS A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT THAT SHOULD NOT BE NIED TO GAY AND LBIAN AMERINS. THAT IS NEARLY DOUBLE THE NUMBER OF REPUBLINS WHO HAD PUBLICLY SIGNED ON TO THE AMIC BRIEF EARLIER THIS WEEK, DITG A GROWG GROUNDSWELL OF SUPPORT AMONG NSERVATIV WHO REGNIZE THE PHILOSOPHIC NSISTENCY OF SUPPORTG THE EEDOM TO MARRY. CALL THEM PRO-EEDOM REPUBLINS.THE ALN CLUS 12 CURRENT AND FORMER MEMBERS OF CONGRS, CLUDG NEW YORK’S RICHARD HANNA, CALIFORNIA’S MARY BONO MACK, AND FLORIDA’S ILEANA ROS-LEHTEN; 7 FORMER ERNORS, CLUDG UTAH’S JON HUNTSMAN, NEW MEXI’S GARY JOHNSON, AND MASSACHETTS’S WILLIAM WELD; AND 7 CURRENT STATE LEGISLATORS. THEY JO THE 206 REPUBLIN STATE LEGISLATORS WHO HAVE SUPPORTED THE EEDOM TO MARRY ON A STATE BASIS TO DATE.THE AMIC BRIEF RV OUT A CLEAR DISTCTN BETWEEN SOCIAL NSERVATIV AND THE CENTER RIGHT, A ALN THAT CLUS LIBERTARIANS, NEONSERVATIV, AND FORMER GOP ADMISTRATN LEARS. AMONG THE BH-ADMISTRATN ALUMNI SIGNG THE BRIEF ARE KEN MEHLMAN, FORMER CHAIRMAN OF THE REPUBLIN NATNAL COMMTEE; FORMER HOMELAND SECURY ADVISER FRANC TOWNSEND; BH CHIEF SPEECHWRER MARK GERSON; FORMER COMMERCE SECRETARY CARLOS GUTIERREZ; FORMER NATNAL-SECURY ADVISER STEPHEN HADLEY; FORMER ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTN AGENCY ADMISTRATOR CHRISTE TODD WHMAN; AND FORMER PUTY SECRETARY OF DEFENSE PL WOLFOWZ. THIS IS PASSNATE NSERVATISM. ALSO TERTG IS THE NUMBER OF FORMER ROMNEY MPAIGN HONCHOS WHO SIGNED ON TO THE BRIEF, CLUDG MPAIGN MANAGER BETH MYERS, GENERAL UNSEL KATIE BIBER, AND NATNAL UNSEL BEN GSBERG. THE ROMNEY MPAIGN, LIKE THE BH 2004 MPAIGN BEFORE , SUPPORTED A FERAL MARRIAGE AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTUTN, BUT APPEARS THAT THERE MT HAVE BEEN TERNAL DISSENSN THE RANKS ON THIS ISSUE.INFLUENTIAL PARTY DONORS SUCH AS CLIFF ASNS, LEW EISENBERG, AND DAN LOEB CID TO ADD THEIR NAM, AS DID POLICY LEARS SUCH AS DOUG HOLTZ-EAK, GREG MANKIW, AND NANCY PFOTENHER, AND STRATEGISTS AND MEDIA FIGUR SUCH AS ALEX CASTELLANOS, MARGARET HOOVER (FULL DISCLOSURE, MY BRI), NILLE WALLACE, STEVE SCHMIDT, S.E. CUPP, ANA NAVARRO, AND THE DAILY BEAST’S OWN DAVID FM AND MARK MCKNON. DEMOGRAPHIC OF ONE CLT EASTWOOD EVEN CID TO SIGN ON.BOTTOM LE, THIS IS AN IMPRSIVE LIST OF FLUENCERS THAT DIT THE SHIFTG TIS ON THIS ISSUE, EVEN WH THE REPUBLIN PARTY. CYNICS WILL SAY THE LIST SHOWS ONLY LIMED SUPPORT AGAST THE TOTAL NUMBER OF ELECTED OFFICIALS SI THE GOP, BUT THIS FIGHT MATTERS PRECISELY BEE REPRENTS A VAL ONT THE GOP CIVIL WAR THAT IS WILLG TO ENGAGE ONE OF THE GREAT CIVIL-RIGHTS BAT OF OUR TIME. AND NTRARY TO SOCIAL-NSERVATIVE STEREOTYP, THERE IS AN ACTIVE BATE ON THIS ISSUE.BACKG THE ARGUMENT MA THE PROP 8 SE LED BY REAGAN SOLICOR GENERAL TED OLSON AND DAVID BOI, PRO-EEDOM REPUBLINS ARGUE THAT MARRIAGE IS A FUNDAMENTAL DIVIDUAL RIGHT AND A NSERVATIVE VIRTUE BEE IS SOCIETALLY STABILIZG, CREATG A SAFETY THAT DON’T RELY ON THE STATE. IN THE PROCS, THEY ARE ATTEMPTG TO ROLVE SOME OF THE NTRADICTNS BETWEEN THE RHETORIC OF DIVIDUAL EEDOM AND SOCIAL-NSERVATIVE POLICI. ENOMIC EEDOM NNOT BE THE SOLE ISSUE THAT LIBERTARIANS RE ABOUT IF THEY CLAIM TO BE NSISTENT, AND RENCILG THIS POLICY NTRADICTN IS CCIAL IF THE GOP DO ED WANT TO STOP BEG “THE STUPID PARTY.”THIS IS A FIGHT WORTH WATCHG, PLAYG OUT THE SUPREME COURT AS WELL AS THE GOP. PRINTIAL ASPIRANTS AND STG SENATORS ARE NOTABLY ABSENT OM THE AMIC BRIEF—JOG THIS LIST STILL RRI NSIRABLE POLIL RISK. FAH-BASED NSERVATIV WILL OPPOSE THIS POLICY ON RELIG GROUNDS, EVEN AS GAY NSERVATIVE GROUPS LIKE GOPROUD AND THE LOG CAB REPUBLINS ARE BANNED OM ATTENDG CPAC ALONGSI THE LIK OF CHRIS CHRISTIE. THERE IS STILL A LONG WAY TO GO BEFORE THE BIG TENT IS REBUILT AFTER HAVG BEEN PURPOSEFULLY BURNED DOWN RECENT YEARS.BUT THIS LIST OF PRO-EEDOM REPUBLINS IS AN IMPORTANT STEP THAT DIRECTN, PLANTG A FLAG WHAT ULD BE ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT SUPREME COURT S A GENERATN. AFTER ALL, AS DICK CHENEY ONCE FAMOLY SAID, “FREEDOM MEANS EEDOM FOR EVERYONE.”THE FULL LIST:AMICI CURIAEKENH B. MEHLMAN, CHAIRMAN, REPUBLIN NATNAL COMMTEE, 2005–07TIM ADAMS, UNRSECRETARY OF THE TREASURY FOR TERNATNAL AFFAIRS, 2005–2007CLIFF S. ASNS, BSMAN, PHILANTHROPIST, AND THORDAVID D. AUFHSER, GENERAL UNSEL, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY, 2001–03CHARL BASS, MEMBER OF CONGRS, 1995–2007 AND 2011–13JOHN B. BELLGER III, LEGAL ADVISER TO THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE, 2005–09KATIE BIBER, GENERAL UNSEL, ROMNEY FOR PRINT, 2007–08 AND 2011–12MARY BONO MACK, MEMBER OF CONGRS, 1998–2013WILLIAM A. BURCK, PUTY STAFF SECRETARY, SPECIAL UNSEL, AND PUTY UNSEL TO THE PRINT, 2005–09ALEX CASTELLANOS, REPUBLIN MEDIA ADVISERPL CELLUCCI, ERNOR OF MASSACHETTS, 1997–2001, AND AMBASSADOR TO CANADA, 2001–05DAVID C. CHAVERN, BS ASSOCIATN EXECUTIVEMARY CHENEY, DIRECTOR OF VICE-PRINTIAL OPERATNS, BH-CHENEY 2004THOMAS J. CHRISTENSEN, PUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EAST ASIAN AND PACIFIC AFFAIRS, 2006–08JIM CICNI, ASSISTANT TO THE PRINT AND PUTY TO THE CHIEF OF STAFF, 1989–90JAM B. COMEY, U.S. PUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL, 2003–05JEFF COOK-MCCORMAC, SENR ADVISER, AMERIN UNY PACR. CLARKE COOPER, U.S. ALTERNATIVE REPRENTATIVE, UNED NATNS SECURY COUNCIL, 2007–09JULIE CRAM, PUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRINT AND DIRECTOR, WHE HOE OFFICE OF PUBLIC LIAISON, 2007–09S.E. CUPP, THOR AND POLIL MENTATORMICHELE DAVIS, ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND DIRECTOR OF POLICY PLANNG, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY, 2006–09TYLER DEATON, SECRETARY, NEW HAMPSHIRE YOUNG REPUBLINS, 2011–PRENTALICIA DAVIS DOWNS, ASSOCIATE POLIL DIRECTOR, WHE HOE, 2001–03KENH M. DUBERSTE, WHE HOE CHIEF OF STAFF AND ASSISTANT TO THE PRINT, 1981–84 AND 1987–89JA DUPREY, NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLYWOMAN, 2007–PRENTCLT EASTWOOD, PRODUCER, DIRECTOR, ACTOR, AND MAYOR OF CARMEL, CALIFORNIA, 1986–88CHRISTIAN J. EDWARDS, SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRINT AND DIRECTOR OF PRS ADVANCE, 2005–07LEW EISENBERG, FANCE CHAIRMAN, REPUBLIN NATNAL COMMTEE, 2002–04MARK J. ELLIS, STATE CHAIRMAN, MAE REPUBLIN PARTY, 2005–06 AND 2007–09ELIZABETH NOYER FELD, PUBLIC-AFFAIRS SPECIALIST, WHE HOE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET, 1984–87CHARL FREEMAN, ASSISTANT U.S. TRA REPRENTATIVE FOR CHA AFFAIRS, 2002–05DAVID FM, THOR AND SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRINT, 2001–02REED GALEN, DIRECTOR OF SCHLG AND ADVANCE, BH-CHENEY 2004RICHARD GALEN, MUNITNS DIRECTOR, SPEAKER’S POLIL OFFICE, 1996–97MARK GERSON, CHAIRMAN, GERSON LEHRMAN GROUP, AND THOR OF THE NEONSERVATIVE VISN: FROM THE COLD WAR TO THE CULTURE WARS AND IN THE CLASSROOM: DISPATCH OM AN INNER-CY SCHOOL THAT WORKSBENJAM GSBERG, NATNAL UNSEL, BH-CHENEY 2000 AND 2004JOSH GSBERG, NATNAL FIELD DIRECTOR, ROMNEY FOR PRINT, 2007–08JULEANNA GLOVER, PRS SECRETARY TO THE VICE PRINT, 2001–02JOHN GOODW, CHIEF OF STAFF TO RL LABRADOR, MEMBER OF CONGRS, 2011–13ADRIAN GRAY, DIRECTOR OF STRATEGY, REPUBLIN NATNAL COMMTEE, 2005–07RICHARD GRENELL, SPOKMAN, U.S. AMBASSADORS TO THE UNED NATNS, 2001–08MARK GRISANTI, NEW YORK STATE SENATOR, 2011–PRENTPATRICK GUERRIERO, MAYOR OF MELROSE, MASSACHETTS, AND MEMBER OF THE MASSACHETTS HOE OF REPRENTATIV, 1993–2001CARLOS GUTIERREZ, SECRETARY OF COMMERCE, 2005–09STEPHEN HADLEY, ASSISTANT TO THE PRINT AND NATNAL SECURY ADVISER, 2005–09RICHARD HANNA, MEMBER OF CONGRS, 2011–PRENTJILL HAZELBAKER, MUNITNS DIRECTOR, JOHN MCCA FOR PRINT, 2007–08ISRAEL HERNANZ, ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF COMMERCE FOR TERNATNAL TRA, 2005–09DOUGLAS HOLTZ-EAK, DIRECTOR, CONGRSNAL BUDGET OFFICE, 2003–05MARGARET HOOVER, ADVISER TO THE PUTY SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURY, 2005–06MICHAEL HUFFGTON, MEMBER OF CONGRS, 1993–95JON HUNTSMAN, ERNOR OF UTAH, 2005–09, AND AMBASSADOR TO CHA, 2009–11DAVID A. JAVDAN, GENERAL UNSEL, U.S. SMALL BS ADMISTRATN, 2002–06RBEN JEFFERY, UNRSECRETARY OF STATE FOR ENOMIC, ENERGY, AND AGRICULTURAL AFFAIRS, 2007–09GREG JENKS, PUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRINT AND DIRECTOR OF PRINTIAL ADVANCE, 2003–04CODDY JOHNSON, NATNAL FIELD DIRECTOR, BH-CHENEY 2004GARY JOHNSON, ERNOR OF NEW MEXI, 1995–03, AND LIBERTARIAN PARTY NOMEE FOR PRINT, 2012NANCY L. JOHNSON, MEMBER OF CONGRS, 1983–2007ROBERT KABEL, SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRINT FOR LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS, 1982–85NEEL KASHKARI, ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, 2008–09THEODORE W. KASSGER, PUTY SECRETARY OF COMMERCE, 2004–05JONATHAN KISLAK, PUTY UNRSECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE FOR SMALL MUNY AND RAL VELOPMENT, 1989–91DAVID KOCHEL, SENR IOWA ADVISER, MT ROMNEY FOR PRINT, 2007–08 AND 2011–12JAM KOLBE, MEMBER OF CONGRS, 1985–2007CYS KROHN, E-MPAIGN DIRECTOR, REPUBLIN NATNAL COMMTEE, 2007–09JEFEY KUPFER, CHIEF OF STAFF AND ACTG PUTY SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, 2006–09ED KUTLER, ASSISTANT TO THE SPEAKER OF THE HOE, 1995–97KATHRYN LEHMAN, CHIEF OF STAFF, HOE REPUBLIN CONFERENCE, 2003–05THOMAS A. LTLE, VERMONT STATE REPRENTATIVE, 1992–2002, AND CHAIRMAN OF THE HOE JUDICIARY COMMTEE, 1999–2002DANIEL S. LOEB, BSMAN AND PHILANTHROPISTALEX LUNDRY, DIRECTOR OF DATA SCIENCE, ROMNEY FOR PRINT, 2012GREG MANKIW, CHAIRMAN, COUNCIL OF ENOMIC ADVISERS, 2003–05CATHERE MART, PUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRINT AND PUTY MUNITNS DIRECTOR FOR POLICY AND PLANNG, 2005–07KEV MART, CHAIRMAN, FERAL COMMUNITNS COMMISSN, 2005–09DAVID MCCORMICK, UNRSECRETARY OF THE TREASURY FOR TERNATNAL AFFAIRS, 2007–09MARK MCKNON, REPUBLIN MEDIA ADVISERAARON MCLEAR, PRS SECRETARY TO GOV. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, 2007–11BCE P. MEHLMAN, ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF COMMERCE, 2001–03SAN MOLARI, MEMBER OF CONGRS, 1990–97CONNIE MORELLA, MEMBER OF CONGRS, 1987–2003, AND U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE ORGANIZATN FOR ENOMIC COOPERATN AND DEVELOPMENT, 2003–07MICHAEL E. MURPHY, REPUBLIN POLIL NSULTANTBETH MYERS, ROMNEY FOR PRINT MPAIGN MANAGER, 2007–08, AND SENR ADVISER, 2011–12MICHAEL NAPOLANO, WHE HOE OFFICE OF POLIL AFFAIRS, 2001–03ANA NAVARRO, NATNAL HISPANIC -CHAIR, JOHN MCCA FOR PRINT, 2008NOAM NSNER, SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRINT FOR ENOMIC SPEECHWRG, 2002-2005B.J. NIKKEL, COLORADO STATE REPRENTATIVE AND MAJORY WHIP, 2009–12, AND DISTRICT DIRECTOR FOR CONGRSWOMAN MARILYN MGRAVE, 2002–06SAN NEELY, SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRINT, 2001–02MEGHAN O’SULLIVAN, PUTY NATNAL-SECURY ADVISER FOR IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN, 2005–07RICHARD PATER, ASSOCIATE UNSEL TO THE PRINT, 2005–07RUTH ANN PETROFF, WYOMG STATE REPRENTATIVE, 2011–PRENTNANCY PFOTENHER, ENOMIST, PRINTIAL TRANSN TEAM, 1988, AND PRINT’S COUNCIL ON COMPETIVENS, 1990GREGG PTS, DIRECTOR, WHE HOE TRAVEL OFFICE, 2006–09J. STANLEY POTTGER, ASSISTANT U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL (CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISN), 1973–77MICHAEL POWELL, CHAIRMAN, FERAL COMMUNITNS COMMISSN, 2001–05LARRY PRSLER, U.S. SENATOR OM SOUTH DAKOTA, 1979–97, AND MEMBER OF CONGRS, 1975–79DEBORAH PRYCE, MEMBER OF CONGRS, 1993–2009JOHN REAGAN, NEW HAMPSHIRE STATE SENATOR, 2012–PRENTLUIS REY, SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRINT AND PUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRINT, 2006–09TOM RIDGE, ERNOR OF PENNSYLVANIA, 1995–2001, AND SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURY, 2003–05KELLEY ROBERTSON, CHIEF OF STAFF, REPUBLIN NATNAL COMMTEE, 2005–07MARK A. ROBBS, GENERAL UNSEL, U.S. OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT, 2001–06BRIAN ROEHRKASSE, DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF JTICE, 2007–09ILEANA ROS-LEHTEN, MEMBER OF CONGRS, 1989–PRENTHARVEY S. ROSEN, MEMBER AND CHAIRMAN, COUNCIL OF ENOMIC ADVISERS, 2003–05LEE RUDOFSKY, PUTY GENERAL UNSEL, ROMNEY FOR PRINT, 2012PATRICK RUFFI, E-MPAIGN DIRECTOR, REPUBLIN NATNAL COMMTEE, 2005–07CORRY SCHIERMEYER, DIRECTOR FOR GLOBAL MUNITNS, NATNAL SECURY COUNCIL, 2005–07STEVE SCHMIDT, PUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRINT AND UNSELOR TO THE VICE PRINT, 2004–06, AND SENR ADVISER, JOHN MCCA FOR PRINT, 2008ADAM SCHROADTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE STATE REPRENTATIVE, 2010–PRENTCHRISTOPHER SHAYS, MEMBER OF CONGRS, 1987–2009FARYAR SHIRZAD, PUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRINT AND PUTY NATNAL-SECURY ADVISER FOR TERNATNAL ENOMIC AFFAIRS, 2004–06KEN SPA, MUNITNS DIRECTOR, NATNAL REPUBLIN CONGRSNAL COMMTEE, 2009–10ROBERT STEEL, UNRSECRETARY OF THE TREASURY FOR DOMTIC FANCE, 2006–08NANCY STIL, NEW HAMPSHIRE STATE SENATOR, 2010–PRENTDAVID STOCKMAN, DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET, 1981–85JANE SWIFT, ERNOR OF MASSACHETTS, 2001–03RICHARD TISEI, MASSACHETTS STATE SENATOR, 1991–2011, AND SENATE MORY LEAR, 2007–11MICHAEL E. TONER, CHAIRMAN AND MISSNER, FERAL ELECTN COMMISSN, 2002–07FRANC FRAGOS TOWNSEND, HOMELAND SECURY ADVISER TO THE PRINT, 2004–08MICHAEL TURK, E-MPAIGN DIRECTOR FOR BH-CHENEY 2004JOHN ULLYOT, MUNITNS DIRECTOR, U.S. SENATE ARMED SERVIC COMMTEE, 2003–07SALLY A. VASTOLA, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, NATNAL REPUBLIN CONGRSNAL COMMTEE, 2003–06JAB P. WAGNER, CHAIRMAN, NEW HAMPSHIRE FERATN OF COLLEGE REPUBLINS, 2012–PRENTMARK WALLACE, U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE UNED NATNS, REPRENTATIVE FOR U.N. MANAGEMENT AND REFORM, 2006–08NILLE WALLACE, ASSISTANT TO THE PRINT AND WHE HOE MUNITNS DIRECTOR, 2005–08WILLIAM F. WELD, ERNOR OF MASSACHETTS, 1991–97, AND ASSISTANT U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL (CRIMAL DIVISN), 1986–88CHRISTE TODD WHMAN, ERNOR OF NEW JERSEY, 1994–2001, AND ADMISTRATOR OF THE EPA, 2001–03MEG WHMAN, REPUBLIN NOMEE FOR ERNOR OF CALIFORNIA, 2010ROBERT WICKERS, REPUBLIN POLIL NSULTANTPL WOLFOWZ, PUTY SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, 2001–05, AND PRINT OF THE WORLD BANK GROUP, 2005–07DAN ZWONZER, WYOMG STATE REPRENTATIVE, 2005–PRENT JOHN AVLON
• I WAS PART OF 303 CREATIVE'S CASE. I BACK GAY MARRIAGE—BUT SCOTUS IS RIGHT
• JTICE DEPARTMENT’S AMIC BRIEF GAY MARRIAGE CASE

GAY MARRIAGE THE US SUPREME COURT: OBERGEFELL V. HODG

04 2015Brief amici curiae of Servic and Advocy for Gay, Lbian, Bisexual and Transgenr Elrs, et al.

(Distributed)Apr 01 2015Brief amic curiae of Parents and Friends of Gays & Ex-Gays filed. The gay-marriage s are fairly typil. They are filed by nservative groups, nservative scholars and policians, and stat that eher have bans on gay marriage or had them prr to those bans beg stck down by the lower urts.

REPUBLINS SIGN BRIEF SUPPORT OF GAY MARRIAGE

Hodg over whether or not gay marriage is a right guaranteed by the US Constutn, and whether or not gay marriag performed stat where has been legalized mt be regnized stat which ban the practice.

On June 26, 2015, the Court led 5-4 that gay marriage is a nstutnal right, meang that all 50 stat mt allow and that all existg bans are valid. The cisn nclud a s-long battle over whether gay marriage should be legalized. All four stat are vered by the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circu, which upheld the stat’ gay marriage bans Nov.

2014, th endg a n of succs for the gay marriage movement durg which more than 40 state and feral urts overturned same-sex marriage bans.

THOANDS SIGN URT BRIEFS SUPPORTG GAY MARRIAGE

The briefs filed support of gay marriage clud one by 370 small and large bs, one by 300 Republin officeholrs and activists, and one filed by a group of former high-rankg civilian Defense Department personnel.

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE

The briefs filed opposn to gay marriage clu those by stat that have banned gay marriage, along wh briefs filed by var nservative policians, scholars, and anizatns. Prottors for and agast gay marriage assembled nearby, wh at least one anti gay marriage prottor managg to get a seat si. After yellg “If you support gay marriage you will burn hell” while the arguments were progrs, the man was dragged screamg out of the urtroom.

Kennedy exprsed a reticence to overri a fn of marriage that “has been wh for lennia, ” yet suggted that gay upl uld have a “noble purpose” wishg to marry.

The New York Tim reported that Kennedy appeared “more emotnal and emphatic when he ma the se for same-sex marriage, ” givg “gay rights advot reason for optimism.

REPUBLINS SUPPORTG GAY MARRIAGE WRE SUPREME COURT AMIC BRIEF

Roberts told lawyers argug on behalf of gay marriage proponents that “you’re not seekg to jo that stutn, you’re seekg to change what the stutn is. As the State self mak marriage all the more prec by the signifince attach to , excln om that stat has the effect of teachg that gays and lbians are unequal important rpects. It means gays and lbians for the State to lock them out of a central stutn of the Natn’s society.

TEXAS JUDGE WHO DON’T WANT TO PERFORM GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI HOP WEB SIGNER’S SUPREME COURT SE HELPS HER FIGHT

The imposn of this disabily on gays and lbians serv to disrpect and subordate them. Marriage did not e about as a rult of a polil movement, disvery, disease, war, relig doctre, or any other movg force of world history—and certaly not as a rult of a prehistoric cisn to exclu gays and lbians. Court Appears on Cp of Declarg Right to Gay Marriage, ”, Apr.

Lawrence Hurley, “Divid Supreme Court Wrtl wh Gay Marriage Case, ”, Apr. Adam Liptak, “Gay Marriage Arguments Divi Supreme Court Jtic, ”, Apr. Adam Liptak, “Gay Marriage Backers W Supreme Court Victory, ”, June 26, 2015.

Adam Liptak, “Supreme Court to Deci Marriage Rights for Gay Coupl Natnwi, ”, Jan.

LEGIMACY OF ‘CTOMER’ SUPREME COURT GAY RIGHTS SE RAIS ETHIL AND LEGAL FLAGS

Erik Ortiz, “Supreme Court Gay Marriage Debate Puts Oh Man Jim Obergefell Center, ”, Apr.

Rosenwald, “How Jim Obergefell Beme the Face of the Supreme Court Gay Marriage Case, ”, Apr. Na Totenberg, “Legal Battle Over Gay Marriage Hs The Supreme Court Tuday, ”, Apr. Dozens of Republins signed an amic brief to the Supreme Court support of gay marriage, jt weeks before the Court is expected to hear arguments on a se challengg the legaly of the Defense of Marriage Act.

I'm Neal of Republins recently broke wh the party le to sign an amic brief to the Supreme Court that argu the nservative se for gay marriage. Several proment Republins who once opposed gay marriage have signed the brief and that uld reflect a growg shift wh the GOP.

THE PRO-FREEDOM REPUBLINS ARE COMG: 131 SIGN GAY MARRIAGE BRIEFPRO-FREEDOMNEARLY 60 NEW REPUBLINS HAVE SIGNED AN AMIC BRIEF SUPPORT OF THE EEDOM TO MARRY. BY JOHN AVLON.JOHN AVLONUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 1:04AM EDT / PUBLISHED FEB. 28, 2013 1:30PM EST BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/GETTYONE HUNDRED THIRTY-ONE REPUBLINS SIGNED AN AMIC BRIEF SUBMTED TO THE SUPREME COURT ON THURSDAY ARGUG THAT MARRIAGE IS A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT THAT SHOULD NOT BE NIED TO GAY AND LBIAN AMERINS. THAT IS NEARLY DOUBLE THE NUMBER OF REPUBLINS WHO HAD PUBLICLY SIGNED ON TO THE AMIC BRIEF EARLIER THIS WEEK, DITG A GROWG GROUNDSWELL OF SUPPORT AMONG NSERVATIV WHO REGNIZE THE PHILOSOPHIC NSISTENCY OF SUPPORTG THE EEDOM TO MARRY. CALL THEM PRO-EEDOM REPUBLINS.THE ALN CLUS 12 CURRENT AND FORMER MEMBERS OF CONGRS, CLUDG NEW YORK’S RICHARD HANNA, CALIFORNIA’S MARY BONO MACK, AND FLORIDA’S ILEANA ROS-LEHTEN; 7 FORMER ERNORS, CLUDG UTAH’S JON HUNTSMAN, NEW MEXI’S GARY JOHNSON, AND MASSACHETTS’S WILLIAM WELD; AND 7 CURRENT STATE LEGISLATORS. THEY JO THE 206 REPUBLIN STATE LEGISLATORS WHO HAVE SUPPORTED THE EEDOM TO MARRY ON A STATE BASIS TO DATE.THE AMIC BRIEF RV OUT A CLEAR DISTCTN BETWEEN SOCIAL NSERVATIV AND THE CENTER RIGHT, A ALN THAT CLUS LIBERTARIANS, NEONSERVATIV, AND FORMER GOP ADMISTRATN LEARS. AMONG THE BH-ADMISTRATN ALUMNI SIGNG THE BRIEF ARE KEN MEHLMAN, FORMER CHAIRMAN OF THE REPUBLIN NATNAL COMMTEE; FORMER HOMELAND SECURY ADVISER FRANC TOWNSEND; BH CHIEF SPEECHWRER MARK GERSON; FORMER COMMERCE SECRETARY CARLOS GUTIERREZ; FORMER NATNAL-SECURY ADVISER STEPHEN HADLEY; FORMER ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTN AGENCY ADMISTRATOR CHRISTE TODD WHMAN; AND FORMER PUTY SECRETARY OF DEFENSE PL WOLFOWZ. THIS IS PASSNATE NSERVATISM. ALSO TERTG IS THE NUMBER OF FORMER ROMNEY MPAIGN HONCHOS WHO SIGNED ON TO THE BRIEF, CLUDG MPAIGN MANAGER BETH MYERS, GENERAL UNSEL KATIE BIBER, AND NATNAL UNSEL BEN GSBERG. THE ROMNEY MPAIGN, LIKE THE BH 2004 MPAIGN BEFORE , SUPPORTED A FERAL MARRIAGE AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTUTN, BUT APPEARS THAT THERE MT HAVE BEEN TERNAL DISSENSN THE RANKS ON THIS ISSUE.INFLUENTIAL PARTY DONORS SUCH AS CLIFF ASNS, LEW EISENBERG, AND DAN LOEB CID TO ADD THEIR NAM, AS DID POLICY LEARS SUCH AS DOUG HOLTZ-EAK, GREG MANKIW, AND NANCY PFOTENHER, AND STRATEGISTS AND MEDIA FIGUR SUCH AS ALEX CASTELLANOS, MARGARET HOOVER (FULL DISCLOSURE, MY BRI), NILLE WALLACE, STEVE SCHMIDT, S.E. CUPP, ANA NAVARRO, AND THE DAILY BEAST’S OWN DAVID FM AND MARK MCKNON. DEMOGRAPHIC OF ONE CLT EASTWOOD EVEN CID TO SIGN ON.BOTTOM LE, THIS IS AN IMPRSIVE LIST OF FLUENCERS THAT DIT THE SHIFTG TIS ON THIS ISSUE, EVEN WH THE REPUBLIN PARTY. CYNICS WILL SAY THE LIST SHOWS ONLY LIMED SUPPORT AGAST THE TOTAL NUMBER OF ELECTED OFFICIALS SI THE GOP, BUT THIS FIGHT MATTERS PRECISELY BEE REPRENTS A VAL ONT THE GOP CIVIL WAR THAT IS WILLG TO ENGAGE ONE OF THE GREAT CIVIL-RIGHTS BAT OF OUR TIME. AND NTRARY TO SOCIAL-NSERVATIVE STEREOTYP, THERE IS AN ACTIVE BATE ON THIS ISSUE.BACKG THE ARGUMENT MA THE PROP 8 SE LED BY REAGAN SOLICOR GENERAL TED OLSON AND DAVID BOI, PRO-EEDOM REPUBLINS ARGUE THAT MARRIAGE IS A FUNDAMENTAL DIVIDUAL RIGHT AND A NSERVATIVE VIRTUE BEE IS SOCIETALLY STABILIZG, CREATG A SAFETY THAT DON’T RELY ON THE STATE. IN THE PROCS, THEY ARE ATTEMPTG TO ROLVE SOME OF THE NTRADICTNS BETWEEN THE RHETORIC OF DIVIDUAL EEDOM AND SOCIAL-NSERVATIVE POLICI. ENOMIC EEDOM NNOT BE THE SOLE ISSUE THAT LIBERTARIANS RE ABOUT IF THEY CLAIM TO BE NSISTENT, AND RENCILG THIS POLICY NTRADICTN IS CCIAL IF THE GOP DO ED WANT TO STOP BEG “THE STUPID PARTY.”THIS IS A FIGHT WORTH WATCHG, PLAYG OUT THE SUPREME COURT AS WELL AS THE GOP. PRINTIAL ASPIRANTS AND STG SENATORS ARE NOTABLY ABSENT OM THE AMIC BRIEF—JOG THIS LIST STILL RRI NSIRABLE POLIL RISK. FAH-BASED NSERVATIV WILL OPPOSE THIS POLICY ON RELIG GROUNDS, EVEN AS GAY NSERVATIVE GROUPS LIKE GOPROUD AND THE LOG CAB REPUBLINS ARE BANNED OM ATTENDG CPAC ALONGSI THE LIK OF CHRIS CHRISTIE. THERE IS STILL A LONG WAY TO GO BEFORE THE BIG TENT IS REBUILT AFTER HAVG BEEN PURPOSEFULLY BURNED DOWN RECENT YEARS.BUT THIS LIST OF PRO-EEDOM REPUBLINS IS AN IMPORTANT STEP THAT DIRECTN, PLANTG A FLAG WHAT ULD BE ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT SUPREME COURT S A GENERATN. AFTER ALL, AS DICK CHENEY ONCE FAMOLY SAID, “FREEDOM MEANS EEDOM FOR EVERYONE.”THE FULL LIST:AMICI CURIAEKENH B. MEHLMAN, CHAIRMAN, REPUBLIN NATNAL COMMTEE, 2005–07TIM ADAMS, UNRSECRETARY OF THE TREASURY FOR TERNATNAL AFFAIRS, 2005–2007CLIFF S. ASNS, BSMAN, PHILANTHROPIST, AND THORDAVID D. AUFHSER, GENERAL UNSEL, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY, 2001–03CHARL BASS, MEMBER OF CONGRS, 1995–2007 AND 2011–13JOHN B. BELLGER III, LEGAL ADVISER TO THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE, 2005–09KATIE BIBER, GENERAL UNSEL, ROMNEY FOR PRINT, 2007–08 AND 2011–12MARY BONO MACK, MEMBER OF CONGRS, 1998–2013WILLIAM A. BURCK, PUTY STAFF SECRETARY, SPECIAL UNSEL, AND PUTY UNSEL TO THE PRINT, 2005–09ALEX CASTELLANOS, REPUBLIN MEDIA ADVISERPL CELLUCCI, ERNOR OF MASSACHETTS, 1997–2001, AND AMBASSADOR TO CANADA, 2001–05DAVID C. CHAVERN, BS ASSOCIATN EXECUTIVEMARY CHENEY, DIRECTOR OF VICE-PRINTIAL OPERATNS, BH-CHENEY 2004THOMAS J. CHRISTENSEN, PUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EAST ASIAN AND PACIFIC AFFAIRS, 2006–08JIM CICNI, ASSISTANT TO THE PRINT AND PUTY TO THE CHIEF OF STAFF, 1989–90JAM B. COMEY, U.S. PUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL, 2003–05JEFF COOK-MCCORMAC, SENR ADVISER, AMERIN UNY PACR. CLARKE COOPER, U.S. ALTERNATIVE REPRENTATIVE, UNED NATNS SECURY COUNCIL, 2007–09JULIE CRAM, PUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRINT AND DIRECTOR, WHE HOE OFFICE OF PUBLIC LIAISON, 2007–09S.E. CUPP, THOR AND POLIL MENTATORMICHELE DAVIS, ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS AND DIRECTOR OF POLICY PLANNG, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY, 2006–09TYLER DEATON, SECRETARY, NEW HAMPSHIRE YOUNG REPUBLINS, 2011–PRENTALICIA DAVIS DOWNS, ASSOCIATE POLIL DIRECTOR, WHE HOE, 2001–03KENH M. DUBERSTE, WHE HOE CHIEF OF STAFF AND ASSISTANT TO THE PRINT, 1981–84 AND 1987–89JA DUPREY, NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLYWOMAN, 2007–PRENTCLT EASTWOOD, PRODUCER, DIRECTOR, ACTOR, AND MAYOR OF CARMEL, CALIFORNIA, 1986–88CHRISTIAN J. EDWARDS, SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRINT AND DIRECTOR OF PRS ADVANCE, 2005–07LEW EISENBERG, FANCE CHAIRMAN, REPUBLIN NATNAL COMMTEE, 2002–04MARK J. ELLIS, STATE CHAIRMAN, MAE REPUBLIN PARTY, 2005–06 AND 2007–09ELIZABETH NOYER FELD, PUBLIC-AFFAIRS SPECIALIST, WHE HOE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET, 1984–87CHARL FREEMAN, ASSISTANT U.S. TRA REPRENTATIVE FOR CHA AFFAIRS, 2002–05DAVID FM, THOR AND SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRINT, 2001–02REED GALEN, DIRECTOR OF SCHLG AND ADVANCE, BH-CHENEY 2004RICHARD GALEN, MUNITNS DIRECTOR, SPEAKER’S POLIL OFFICE, 1996–97MARK GERSON, CHAIRMAN, GERSON LEHRMAN GROUP, AND THOR OF THE NEONSERVATIVE VISN: FROM THE COLD WAR TO THE CULTURE WARS AND IN THE CLASSROOM: DISPATCH OM AN INNER-CY SCHOOL THAT WORKSBENJAM GSBERG, NATNAL UNSEL, BH-CHENEY 2000 AND 2004JOSH GSBERG, NATNAL FIELD DIRECTOR, ROMNEY FOR PRINT, 2007–08JULEANNA GLOVER, PRS SECRETARY TO THE VICE PRINT, 2001–02JOHN GOODW, CHIEF OF STAFF TO RL LABRADOR, MEMBER OF CONGRS, 2011–13ADRIAN GRAY, DIRECTOR OF STRATEGY, REPUBLIN NATNAL COMMTEE, 2005–07RICHARD GRENELL, SPOKMAN, U.S. AMBASSADORS TO THE UNED NATNS, 2001–08MARK GRISANTI, NEW YORK STATE SENATOR, 2011–PRENTPATRICK GUERRIERO, MAYOR OF MELROSE, MASSACHETTS, AND MEMBER OF THE MASSACHETTS HOE OF REPRENTATIV, 1993–2001CARLOS GUTIERREZ, SECRETARY OF COMMERCE, 2005–09STEPHEN HADLEY, ASSISTANT TO THE PRINT AND NATNAL SECURY ADVISER, 2005–09RICHARD HANNA, MEMBER OF CONGRS, 2011–PRENTJILL HAZELBAKER, MUNITNS DIRECTOR, JOHN MCCA FOR PRINT, 2007–08ISRAEL HERNANZ, ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF COMMERCE FOR TERNATNAL TRA, 2005–09DOUGLAS HOLTZ-EAK, DIRECTOR, CONGRSNAL BUDGET OFFICE, 2003–05MARGARET HOOVER, ADVISER TO THE PUTY SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURY, 2005–06MICHAEL HUFFGTON, MEMBER OF CONGRS, 1993–95JON HUNTSMAN, ERNOR OF UTAH, 2005–09, AND AMBASSADOR TO CHA, 2009–11DAVID A. JAVDAN, GENERAL UNSEL, U.S. SMALL BS ADMISTRATN, 2002–06RBEN JEFFERY, UNRSECRETARY OF STATE FOR ENOMIC, ENERGY, AND AGRICULTURAL AFFAIRS, 2007–09GREG JENKS, PUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRINT AND DIRECTOR OF PRINTIAL ADVANCE, 2003–04CODDY JOHNSON, NATNAL FIELD DIRECTOR, BH-CHENEY 2004GARY JOHNSON, ERNOR OF NEW MEXI, 1995–03, AND LIBERTARIAN PARTY NOMEE FOR PRINT, 2012NANCY L. JOHNSON, MEMBER OF CONGRS, 1983–2007ROBERT KABEL, SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRINT FOR LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS, 1982–85NEEL KASHKARI, ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, 2008–09THEODORE W. KASSGER, PUTY SECRETARY OF COMMERCE, 2004–05JONATHAN KISLAK, PUTY UNRSECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE FOR SMALL MUNY AND RAL VELOPMENT, 1989–91DAVID KOCHEL, SENR IOWA ADVISER, MT ROMNEY FOR PRINT, 2007–08 AND 2011–12JAM KOLBE, MEMBER OF CONGRS, 1985–2007CYS KROHN, E-MPAIGN DIRECTOR, REPUBLIN NATNAL COMMTEE, 2007–09JEFEY KUPFER, CHIEF OF STAFF AND ACTG PUTY SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, 2006–09ED KUTLER, ASSISTANT TO THE SPEAKER OF THE HOE, 1995–97KATHRYN LEHMAN, CHIEF OF STAFF, HOE REPUBLIN CONFERENCE, 2003–05THOMAS A. LTLE, VERMONT STATE REPRENTATIVE, 1992–2002, AND CHAIRMAN OF THE HOE JUDICIARY COMMTEE, 1999–2002DANIEL S. LOEB, BSMAN AND PHILANTHROPISTALEX LUNDRY, DIRECTOR OF DATA SCIENCE, ROMNEY FOR PRINT, 2012GREG MANKIW, CHAIRMAN, COUNCIL OF ENOMIC ADVISERS, 2003–05CATHERE MART, PUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRINT AND PUTY MUNITNS DIRECTOR FOR POLICY AND PLANNG, 2005–07KEV MART, CHAIRMAN, FERAL COMMUNITNS COMMISSN, 2005–09DAVID MCCORMICK, UNRSECRETARY OF THE TREASURY FOR TERNATNAL AFFAIRS, 2007–09MARK MCKNON, REPUBLIN MEDIA ADVISERAARON MCLEAR, PRS SECRETARY TO GOV. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, 2007–11BCE P. MEHLMAN, ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF COMMERCE, 2001–03SAN MOLARI, MEMBER OF CONGRS, 1990–97CONNIE MORELLA, MEMBER OF CONGRS, 1987–2003, AND U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE ORGANIZATN FOR ENOMIC COOPERATN AND DEVELOPMENT, 2003–07MICHAEL E. MURPHY, REPUBLIN POLIL NSULTANTBETH MYERS, ROMNEY FOR PRINT MPAIGN MANAGER, 2007–08, AND SENR ADVISER, 2011–12MICHAEL NAPOLANO, WHE HOE OFFICE OF POLIL AFFAIRS, 2001–03ANA NAVARRO, NATNAL HISPANIC -CHAIR, JOHN MCCA FOR PRINT, 2008NOAM NSNER, SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRINT FOR ENOMIC SPEECHWRG, 2002-2005B.J. NIKKEL, COLORADO STATE REPRENTATIVE AND MAJORY WHIP, 2009–12, AND DISTRICT DIRECTOR FOR CONGRSWOMAN MARILYN MGRAVE, 2002–06SAN NEELY, SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRINT, 2001–02MEGHAN O’SULLIVAN, PUTY NATNAL-SECURY ADVISER FOR IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN, 2005–07RICHARD PATER, ASSOCIATE UNSEL TO THE PRINT, 2005–07RUTH ANN PETROFF, WYOMG STATE REPRENTATIVE, 2011–PRENTNANCY PFOTENHER, ENOMIST, PRINTIAL TRANSN TEAM, 1988, AND PRINT’S COUNCIL ON COMPETIVENS, 1990GREGG PTS, DIRECTOR, WHE HOE TRAVEL OFFICE, 2006–09J. STANLEY POTTGER, ASSISTANT U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL (CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISN), 1973–77MICHAEL POWELL, CHAIRMAN, FERAL COMMUNITNS COMMISSN, 2001–05LARRY PRSLER, U.S. SENATOR OM SOUTH DAKOTA, 1979–97, AND MEMBER OF CONGRS, 1975–79DEBORAH PRYCE, MEMBER OF CONGRS, 1993–2009JOHN REAGAN, NEW HAMPSHIRE STATE SENATOR, 2012–PRENTLUIS REY, SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRINT AND PUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRINT, 2006–09TOM RIDGE, ERNOR OF PENNSYLVANIA, 1995–2001, AND SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURY, 2003–05KELLEY ROBERTSON, CHIEF OF STAFF, REPUBLIN NATNAL COMMTEE, 2005–07MARK A. ROBBS, GENERAL UNSEL, U.S. OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT, 2001–06BRIAN ROEHRKASSE, DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF JTICE, 2007–09ILEANA ROS-LEHTEN, MEMBER OF CONGRS, 1989–PRENTHARVEY S. ROSEN, MEMBER AND CHAIRMAN, COUNCIL OF ENOMIC ADVISERS, 2003–05LEE RUDOFSKY, PUTY GENERAL UNSEL, ROMNEY FOR PRINT, 2012PATRICK RUFFI, E-MPAIGN DIRECTOR, REPUBLIN NATNAL COMMTEE, 2005–07CORRY SCHIERMEYER, DIRECTOR FOR GLOBAL MUNITNS, NATNAL SECURY COUNCIL, 2005–07STEVE SCHMIDT, PUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRINT AND UNSELOR TO THE VICE PRINT, 2004–06, AND SENR ADVISER, JOHN MCCA FOR PRINT, 2008ADAM SCHROADTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE STATE REPRENTATIVE, 2010–PRENTCHRISTOPHER SHAYS, MEMBER OF CONGRS, 1987–2009FARYAR SHIRZAD, PUTY ASSISTANT TO THE PRINT AND PUTY NATNAL-SECURY ADVISER FOR TERNATNAL ENOMIC AFFAIRS, 2004–06KEN SPA, MUNITNS DIRECTOR, NATNAL REPUBLIN CONGRSNAL COMMTEE, 2009–10ROBERT STEEL, UNRSECRETARY OF THE TREASURY FOR DOMTIC FANCE, 2006–08NANCY STIL, NEW HAMPSHIRE STATE SENATOR, 2010–PRENTDAVID STOCKMAN, DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET, 1981–85JANE SWIFT, ERNOR OF MASSACHETTS, 2001–03RICHARD TISEI, MASSACHETTS STATE SENATOR, 1991–2011, AND SENATE MORY LEAR, 2007–11MICHAEL E. 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WELD, ERNOR OF MASSACHETTS, 1991–97, AND ASSISTANT U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL (CRIMAL DIVISN), 1986–88CHRISTE TODD WHMAN, ERNOR OF NEW JERSEY, 1994–2001, AND ADMISTRATOR OF THE EPA, 2001–03MEG WHMAN, REPUBLIN NOMEE FOR ERNOR OF CALIFORNIA, 2010ROBERT WICKERS, REPUBLIN POLIL NSULTANTPL WOLFOWZ, PUTY SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, 2001–05, AND PRINT OF THE WORLD BANK GROUP, 2005–07DAN ZWONZER, WYOMG STATE REPRENTATIVE, 2005–PRENT JOHN AVLON

Good to have you back the program, SAVAGE: Hi, Now, some Republins have ma clear their stance on gay marriage wh this brief. And a lot of people on the gay rights movement are - have been prsg him to say, look, if you really thk this is a matter of equal rights, why not say so the California se?

You know, I thk the really tertg thg this se, Neal, is I thk this is the view on the gay rights' si, as well as on the other si, is that people want the Supreme Court to sort of move slowly the right directn.

I WAS PART OF 303 CREATIVE'S CASE. I BACK GAY MARRIAGE—BUT SCOTUS IS RIGHT

That is, they're hopg - Jtice Kennedy has wrten strong opns favor of gay rights the past and you would thk that there's five vot to e out favor of gay marriage.

And so the notn is, we'd like to move the directn of gay marriage se - plac like California, but might be unwise for the urt to try to make a natnal le one cisn this sprg. But three that people are talkg, one of which they uld uphold California's Proposn 8 and say the people voted this se and gay marriage is now illegal there. They're a ltle reluctant to say - even if the print thks this is a matter of equal rights - they're a ltle reluctant to say that, you know, Nebraska and Mississippi and Texas, you know, startg this year have to thorize gay marriage.

This is a group of proment Republins, many of them formerly opposed to gay marriage, who've e out and told the urt there is a nservative se for gay marriage, and we'll argue Y, I thk as we all know, there's been sort of a sea change thkg on this subject the last 15, 20 years.

JTICE DEPARTMENT’S AMIC BRIEF GAY MARRIAGE CASE

You know, the 1990s when the urt first broached some of the gay rights s, maybe one four Amerins would've been favor of gay marriage. They know that 10 years, 20 years, somewhere down the road, gay marriage is gog to be a natnal norm and that they don't want to be on the wrong si of history.

So I thk that whole - this brief only adds to what has been sort of a sea change thk and do - I thk do have some effect on the It also follows an advertisement, even more proment Republins - Col Powell, Dick Cheney, Lra Bh among them - whout their permissn necsarily, all sid - quoted as supportg gay marriage other ntext, but they are not signatori to this You know, Neal, I head a nservative judge say a uple of years ago, a le that stuck wh me, is that one of the really brilliant thgs about the gay rights movement is that they took on really sentially nservative goals. But I do thk 's part of a trend of jt a change thkg and sayg that, y, many Republins now thk, you know, same sex - gay marriage is a good thg. The adle to file amic briefs on the si of the - now on the gay rights si is Thursday at the end of close of bs.