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Wonderful news:
US Supreme Court turns down hearing a challenge to the Massachusetts same-sex rulings.
Admittedly, the SC only turned down the appeal based on the fact that the plaintiffs have not suffered 'serious inury' due of the MA courts' rulings. So the door is open for further challenges. But for now, MA is in the clear for recognizing same-sex marriages.
Oh, and one point that wasn't brought up in either article, but is crippling to the plaintiff's fallacious case: the federal gov't, save for the D(emise) Of Marriage Act, has always let states decide how they handle the designation of marriages.
(Point of interest, this was buried on the CNN webpage, but it was right up in front on the BBC webpage.)
News that's nigh-impossible to believe:
NYC Child Services treating foster children and orphans in their care as involuntary test subjects for anti-HIV drugs.
Tuskeegee studies, anyone? This one's going to come back and bite NYC in the ass in ten or twenty years. And the city will deserve it. I don't know whether or not the ACS actually has legal right of guardianship for all of these children, but this abrogation and override of the normal informed consent rights for patients in clinical trials really makes me wonder just how much money NYC and its ACS are making off of this.
US Supreme Court turns down hearing a challenge to the Massachusetts same-sex rulings.
Admittedly, the SC only turned down the appeal based on the fact that the plaintiffs have not suffered 'serious inury' due of the MA courts' rulings. So the door is open for further challenges. But for now, MA is in the clear for recognizing same-sex marriages.
Oh, and one point that wasn't brought up in either article, but is crippling to the plaintiff's fallacious case: the federal gov't, save for the D(emise) Of Marriage Act, has always let states decide how they handle the designation of marriages.
(Point of interest, this was buried on the CNN webpage, but it was right up in front on the BBC webpage.)
News that's nigh-impossible to believe:
NYC Child Services treating foster children and orphans in their care as involuntary test subjects for anti-HIV drugs.
Tuskeegee studies, anyone? This one's going to come back and bite NYC in the ass in ten or twenty years. And the city will deserve it. I don't know whether or not the ACS actually has legal right of guardianship for all of these children, but this abrogation and override of the normal informed consent rights for patients in clinical trials really makes me wonder just how much money NYC and its ACS are making off of this.
