SAN FRANCISCO -- For Mina Meyer and Sharon Raphael, two women in their 70s who fell in love more than four decades ago and have been married for more ...
It's certainly a great thing for an ex-president to weigh in with a reversal and give his opinion to the Supreme Court. And I commend Clinton for his evolution. But that doesn't remove this damaging act from Clinton's legacy.
WASHINGTON -- Former President Bill Clinton is calling on the Supreme Court to overturn a law he signed that bars federal recognition of same-sex marr...
We've come a great distance from those lopsided House and Senate votes in 1996 in support of the discriminatory and unconstitutional so-called Defense of Marriage Act. Still, the discrimination of this law and the harms it causes tens of thousands of American families remains.
For Marvin Burrows, the grief of losing his partner in 2005 was quickly followed by a different emotion: devastation as his financial life crumbled ar...
WASHINGTON -- Sixteen Democratic senators are calling on the Veterans Affairs Department to keep granting waivers so that same-sex spouses can be buri...
WASHINGTON -- Six former Federal Election Commission (FEC) commissioners filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the Supreme Court on Friday in the cha...
The bulk of the plaintiffs' brief focuses on Prop 8 as a violation of equal protection rights. Ā This is the course most legal observers expect the Supreme Court to take in its eventual decision on Prop 8.
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to strike down California's ban on same-sex marriage as unconstitutional, s...
The brief authoritatively dismantles claims that same-sex marriage harms children and that kids "do better with a mother and a father," and it specifically repudiates the junk-science "study" of gay parenting published last year by researcher Mark Regnerus, an ASA member.
WASHINGTON -- Fifteen states will urge the Supreme Court to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act, arguing that the law preventing the federal gover...
For us, marriage equality cases aren't a matter of politics or ideology; they are a fight for the true meaning of one of America's most sacred constitutional rights.
Over 200 tech companies, including Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and Ebay, have partnered together to file a brief arguing against the Defense O...
The Defense of Marriage Act forces employers to treat married same-sex couples differently from married straight couples. For example, because of DOMA, employers must withhold more from the paychecks of married gay employees than from those of married straight employees.
WASHINGTON -- A former Republican congresswoman who sponsored the Federal Marriage Amendment while in office denied signing an amicus brief arguing th...
The new media were ablaze on the evening of February 22 after U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli filed a brief in United States v. Windsor asking the Supreme Court to overturn Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
LOS ANGELES -- A lawsuit brought by a lesbian Army veteran and her wife over the denial of disability benefits can move forward over the objections of...
The Obama administration on Friday urged the Supreme Court to strike down the Defense Of Marriage Act in a brief that calls the law unconstitutional b...
On the heels of the one-year anniversary of the end of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," U.S Marine Corps Captain Matthew Phelps made history when he became th...