Outside the Beltway

Later today, President Obama will sign an Executive Order barring Federal Contractors from discrimination based on sexual orientation. But that’s not even the most controversial part for some conservatives.

Another step closer to the Supreme Court.

Why is the marriage ceremony the government’s concern?

It seems improbable, but the national landscape on same-sex marriage is changing so quickly that even the Republican Party may find itself changing faster than some might think.

Assuming it accepts the appeal, Utah is giving the Supreme Court its high profile case for the October 2015 Term.

Much of the criticism of Hobby Lobby, and Citizens United before it, is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of what those decisions stand for.

The Supreme Court’s next term doesn’t start for three months, but it’s becoming clear that the Justices will have to deal with marriage equality when it does.

Is the Religious Freedom Restoration Act itself an unconstitutional Establishment of Religion barred by the First Amendment? There’s a compelling argument that it is.

The streak continues.

Mitch McConnell is making promises to pro-life groups that the GOP probably won’t keep, but it’s still a politically risky move.

The Supreme Court has saved the biggest case of the term for its last day.

A big step forward for the challenge to state-based bans on same-sex marriage.

A clash over Separation Of Power and the Imperial Presidency, coming soon to a Federal District Court in Washington, D.C.

Once again, conservatives demonstrate how little they understand minority voters.

A new Gallup poll finds widespread support for individual choice when it comes to end of life decisions.

Wisconsin’s Republican Governor isn’t very eager to talk about same-sex marriage these days.

Obsessing over what a politician believed in the past accomplishes nothing.

The people are ready. Is the Supreme Court?

The Texas GOP wants to “pray away the gay.”

Another legal victory for marriage equality.

Another victory for the GOP establishment in its battle against the Tea Party.

It’s that time of year again.

The very idea of a “war on religion” in the United States is absurd.

Sooner or later, the Supreme Court will have to rule on a challenge to state laws banning same-sex marriage.

Is support for marriage equality now an issue that can benefit Democrats at the polls?

And Pennsylvania makes it 19.

Yet another Federal Judge has struck down a state’s ban on same-sex marriage.

A 13 month string of legal victories for marriage equality reaches Oregon.

Once again, Rand Paul is challenging conservative orthodoxy.

Another victory for marriage equality.

A good idea, but do the ends justify the means?

A grim new poll for the President and his Democratic allies.

Who watches Sunday morning talk shows anymore?

Sooner than one might have expected, Republicans are starting to battle over the issue of marriage equality.

Hillary Clinton’s numbers aren’t at the incredibly high levels they used to be, but they were never going to stay that high anyway.