Eastman is the new general in gay marriage war

After failing to get elected California attorney general last year, John Eastman, a conservative law professor, has emerged as a different sort of general, one taking a lead in the cultural war over marriage.

Eastman, 51, has been appointed chairman of the National Organization for Marriage, the main organization advocating at the ballot box and in courts for traditional marriage, and against any effort to legalize same-sex marriage.

Eastman, who teaches at Chapman University School of Law in Orange County, regularly files arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court and appellate courts on the hot-button social issues of the day.

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Tolerance is not a word often associated with the right-wing extremist National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD). The party, after all, would like to see foreigners returned home, immigration stopped and homosexuality marginalized.

When it comes to his own person, however, NPD leader Udo Voigt would like to see a bit more tolerance. Voigt has mounted a legal challenge against a wellness hotel in the German state of Brandenburg which, he says, discriminated against him based on his political affiliations. In arguments before the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe, Voigt invoked the concept of tolerance, pointing to its paramount importance in a free, democratic society.

The case centers around a four-day stay Voigt's wife booked in the Hotel Esplanade, located in Bad Saarow just southeast of Berlin, in 2009. The hotel, though, decided that it would rather not host to the Voigts and cancelled the reservation. Voigt's "political convictions," the hotel argued in its defense, are not consistent with the goal of offering "every guest an excellent wellness experience."

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,792719,00.html

with one HUGE colonic.