Posts Tagged equal protection
What Kind of Equality?
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on April 13th, 2013
Yesterday, I participated in a panel discussion on equality. The panel was part of the 10th Annual O’Bannon Institute for Community Service, held at Ivy Tech Community College in Bloomington. Our panel’s charge was very broad: we were supposed to discuss “equality” and consider America’s progress toward achieving it. In addition to me, the panel [...]
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Sauce for the Goose
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Local Government on February 27th, 2013
Yesterday’s post about the effort to expose the “reasoning” behind Senate Bill 371 got me thinking about equal treatment and its notable absence from other brilliant proposals currently wending their way through Indiana’s legislative process. (As you may recall, SB 371 “protects” women who want prescriptions for abortion pills, and the proposed amendment would similarly [...]
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Little by Little….
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Gay Rights on October 20th, 2012
A federal appeals court recently became the second such court to declare DOMA–the federal “Defense of Marriage Act”–unconstitutional. The challenge was brought by an 83-year-old resident of New York State, where same-sex marriage is legal. When her partner–pardon me, her wife–died, DOMA allowed the IRS to assess an estate tax nearly 400,000 higher than she [...]
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No Rites, No Rights
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Gay Rights on April 12th, 2011
Those of us who argue for same-sex marriage typically refer to the 1008 or so rights that accompany state recognition of marriage. The rights most often discussed are concerned with hospital visitation, taxation and inheritance, and those inequities are particularly galling. But there are lots of other rights that are denied to GLBT folks who [...]
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