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Jennifer Bendery

Pelosi, House Democrats File Brief In Case Challenging DOMA

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 01.03.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- House Democrats may not be in the majority, but they took action on Thursday to make it clear they don't agree with the decision by Hous...

Gay Military Spouse Speaks Out On His Husband Getting Booed At GOP Debate

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 12.27.2011 | Politics

Josh Snyder, the husband of the gay soldier booed at a September Republican presidential debate, appeared on MSNBC Thursday to discuss the incident an...

Max J. Rosenthal

Adam And Pete: Love In A Time Of War

HuffingtonPost.com | Max J. Rosenthal | Posted 12.27.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Captain Pete Bennett doesn't remember the time he met his future husband. There wasn't much worth remembering. It was during his fres...

Max J. Rosenthal

Gay Troops Bring Lawsuit To Overturn DOMA

HuffingtonPost.com | Max J. Rosenthal | Posted 12.27.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Just over a month after the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network on Thursday announced a lawsuit se...

Ron Paul Defends Gays In The Military

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 12.26.2011 | Politics

Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) said that heterosexual military servicemembers were "causing more trouble than gays" due to ...

Jennifer Bendery

House Defends DOMA By Arguing Gay People Are Powerful

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 12.20.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Gay people have the political power to sway Congress to combat discrimination against them, so there's no need for a court to overturn t...

Andrea Stone

Same-Sex Married Troops Ready To Sue Over Military Benefits

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 12.16.2011 | Politics

LAS VEGAS -- The gay advocacy group that successfully lobbied to repeal the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy plans to file a lawsuit in feder...

Do Gays And Lesbians Deserve The Same Protections As Other Minorities?

AP | By SUDHIN THANAWALA | Posted 12.16.2011 | San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO -- Gays and lesbians are not entitled to the same heightened legal protection and scrutiny against discrimination as racial minorities a...

Andrea Stone

Gay Troops, Included But Not Equal

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 12.15.2011 | Gay Voices

LAS VEGAS -- Amid the joy of meeting in public for the first time and with the novelty of the repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" receding, active-duty ...

Amanda Terkel

DOMA Repeal Moves Forward In Senate

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 12.14.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Next month, the Senate Judiciary Committee will be voting on legislation to repeal the federal Defense of Marriage Act, an important ste...

Catholic Bishops Endanger Church Tax Exempt Status

Michele Somerville | Posted 12.14.2011 | Religion
Michele Somerville

Bishops play a dangerous game when they threaten to use the leverage they think they have to bring secular law in line with canon law.

Andrea Stone

Gay Troops Gather To Face Post-DADT Challenges

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 12.10.2011 | Politics

LAS VEGAS -- Just weeks after gays and lesbians celebrated the repeal of the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, more than 200 active-duty mili...

Should DOMA Dogma Be Law?

Rev. Dr. Nancy Wilson | Posted 12.10.2011 | Gay Voices
Rev. Dr. Nancy Wilson

Bishop Dolan predicts (threatens?) that if marriage equality is allowed, "a systemic national conflict between Church and State" will ensue. He wants the "formidable moral, economic, and coercive power" to enforce the Catholic definition of marriage.

New Federal Rule Underscores Importance of DOMA Repeal

Ian Thompson | Posted 12.07.2011 | Gay Voices
Ian Thompson

It is a sad irony that DADT's demise has allowed LGB service members to serve their country openly, yet their same-sex spouses who are federal employees can be denied the ability to use FMLA time to take part in family support services.

Amanda Terkel

Eric Cantor Condemns Occupy Wall Street 'Mobs'

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 12.07.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Top House GOP leaders assured attendees at the 2011 Values Voter Summit Friday morning that despite all the attention on fixing the nati...

Amanda Terkel

How Much Are Taxpayers Paying To Defend DOMA?

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 12.04.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- House Republicans have agreed to a new contract to pay a private law firm up to $1.5 million to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, whic...

Elise Foley

Obama: Defense of Marriage Issue Will Be Settled Soon

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 11.28.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama said he thinks the courts will decide "fairly soon" whether to end the Defense of Marriage Act, hinting that he b...

Looks Like Leno, Letterman Are Setting Tone at HHS, Justice Department

Sister Mary Ann Walsh | Posted 11.26.2011 | Religion
Sister Mary Ann Walsh

Freedom for religion means that government cannot interfere with the internal governance of religious institutions.

A Full Circle on Marriage

Lanae Erickson | Posted 11.23.2011 | Politics
Lanae Erickson

In the fall of 1996, social conservatives in Washington, D.C., pushed and passed the Defense of Marriage Act. Today, the politics around gay issues seem unrecognizable from the dark days only 15 years ago.

Amanda Terkel

GOP Rep. To Sponsor DOMA Repeal Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 11.23.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) has signed on as the first Republican co-sponsor of the bill to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. ...

Catholic Bishop Warns Of 'National Conflict' Over Gay Marriage

Posted 11.22.2011 | Religion

By David Gibson Religion News Service NEW YORK (RNS) The nation's top Catholic bishop issued a stern challenge to the Obama administration's decis...

Despite DADT Repeal, Gays In The Military Still Face Discrimination

Mother Jones | Adam Serwer | Posted 11.20.2011 | Politics

Don't Ask, Don't Tell is dead. But the fight for equality in the military is nowhere near finished. While the official end of DADT at midnight on Mond...

Andrea Stone

GetEQUAL Plans Protests As Most Gay Groups Celebrate DADT Repeal

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 11.19.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy ends at midnight, and gay rights group GetEQUAL says it will sponsor protests in more than...

Republicans Block Move To Televise San Francisco Gay Marriage Trial

Aaron Sankin | Posted 11.13.2011 | San Francisco

Lawyers representing congressional Republicans have pulled the plug on a proposal to televise arguments in an upcoming San Francisco trial determining...

WATCH: Jon Stewart Rips Rick Santorum, President Obama Over Gay Marriage

The Huffington Post | Katla McGlynn | Posted 10.18.2011 | Comedy

Jon Stewart took a break from his Indecision 2012 coverage to address one GOP hopeful's argument against gay marriage and our current President's fail...