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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Fiorina: Marriage is ‘grounded in spirituality’ — GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina on Saturday said the Supreme Court's legalization of same-sex marriage nationwide ignores religious history across most world faiths. — The former Hewlett-Packard CEO argued history …
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Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
God and Marriage Equality — In the late nineteen-fifties, Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter met and fell in love amid the sleepy small towns and picturesque horse farms of Virginia's Caroline County. Loving was white and Jeter black (as well as Native American), which meant …
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Eli Stokols / Politico:
Jeb Bush has a new problem: John Roberts — The former Florida governor suddenly finds himself called to answer for the chief justice appointed by his brother. — Jeb Bush is always facing nagging questions about the Bush family's political legacy. Now he's got another: John Roberts.
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
Let's Drop the Charade: The Supreme Court Is a Political Branch, Not a Judicial One — ut this Court is not a legislature. " Chief Justice John Roberts actually published that sentence in his same-sex marriage dissent on Friday . . . a mere 24 hours after his maestro's performance …
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The Advocate:
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal rails against same sex marriage decision: ‘If we want to save some money lets just get rid of the court’ — Louisiana's Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal wasted no time on Friday issuing a scathing statement against the U.S. Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling legalizing same sex marriage …
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Washington Monthly, Booman Tribune, Associated Press, Talking Points Memo and The Moderate Voice
Brendan O'Connor / Gawker:
CNN Mistakes Dildo-Covered Flag at Pride Parade for ISIS Flag — In this clip, a CNN anchor and editor fail to recognize that what they have identified as an “ISIS flag” is actually a flag of dildos and butt plugs, rendered in the style of ISIS. — “If you look at the flag closely, it's clearly not Arabic,” CNN's Lucy Pawle admits.
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Fusion, American Power, Balloon Juice and The Huffington Post
Marlow Stern / The Daily Beast:
Amy Schumer on Why She Turned Down ‘The Daily Show’ — The star of Trainwreck and Inside Amy Schumer discusses why she passed on Comedy Central's offer for her to take over for Jon Stewart on the political satire The Daily Show. — When Jon Stewart announced plans to end his rich tenure …
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Rosa Brooks / Foreign Policy:
Can Gay Marriage Defeat the Islamic State? — A few — admittedly sappy — thoughts on the power of #LoveWins. — I was thinking about two sets of images this morning: one from an Islamic State-controlled city in Iraq, the other from the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.
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New York Times, RedState and The American Conservative
Bloomberg Business:
Greeks Line Up at Banks and Drain ATMs as Tsipras Calls Vote — Greeks line up at banks this morning. Photographer: Konstantinos Tsakalidis/Bloomberg — Greece's banks may need an injection of fresh emergency funds to operate Monday as people rushed to pull out money …
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Press Association, The Last Tradition, The Other McCain, Bloomberg View and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Katie Johnston / BostonGlobe.com:
Mass. home health workers win wage hike to $15 an hour — After five months of negotiations with the Baker administration, more than 35,000 personal care attendants in Massachusetts won an agreement for a $15-an-hour starting wage, the first state-level victory in a nationwide campaign to raise low-wage workers' pay.
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David Remnick / New Yorker:
Ten Days in June — What a series of days in American life, full of savage mayhem, uncommon forgiveness, resistance to forgiveness, furious debate, mourning, and, finally, justice and grace. As President Obama led thousands of mourners in Charleston, South Carolina, in “Amazing Grace,” I thought about late 2013 and early 2014.
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Associated Press:
Woman removes Confederate flag in front of SC statehouse — COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — The Confederate flag has been temporarily removed from in front of the South Carolina Statehouse. — An unidentified black woman was about halfway up the more than 30-foot steel flagpole …
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Mary Frances Berry / Washington Post:
The Confederate flag is just a distraction
The Confederate flag is just a distraction
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Reuters, ThinkProgress, CANNONFIRE and WYPR
Martin Matishak / The Hill:
Momentum grows to scrap Pentagon's ban on transgender troops — There is renewed energy on Capitol Hill to lift the Defense Department's ban on transgender troops. — Lawmakers view recent steps by the Pentagon and some of the armed services to expand protections for gay and lesbian troops …
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Republican Sen. James Inhofe: My Gay Friends Think Court Ruling Was Bad — “I know a lot of people, actually a lot of people who are friends of mine in the gay community, who also think it was a bad decision.” — Republican Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma says he has a lot of friends …
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Gay Conservatism and Straight Liberation — BEFORE there was a national debate about same-sex marriage, there was a debate within the gay community about whether it was a worthwhile goal to chase at all. — This debate was tactical (since the cause once seemed quixotic) but also philosophical.
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