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Conservative-Backed Study Intended To Sway Court On Gay Marriage

AINN | Posted 03.11.2013 | Politics

By Sofia Resnick Goal of conservative-backed parenting study was to influence SCOTUS decisions on gay marriage, docs show WASHINGTON -- The...

DOMA Challenges Prompt Windfalls For Gay Couples

AP | By LISA LEFF | Posted 03.10.2013 | Gay Voices

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 ...

President Clinton Says DOMA Is Unconstitutional (So Why Don't I Feel Grateful?)

Elizabeth Birch | Posted 05.08.2013 | Gay Voices
Elizabeth Birch

I know I should shut up. Shut up and be grateful we are making progress. But I guess I am attached to an accurate historic record.

Bill Clinton and DOMA: The Indelible Stain on a Presidency

Michelangelo Signorile | Posted 05.08.2013 | Gay Voices
Michelangelo Signorile

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.

While Admitting Mistake, Clinton Leaves Mystery Intact

The New Yorker | Posted 03.08.2013 | Politics

It is extremely rare for former Presidents to admit mistakes made in office, and rarer still for one to disavow a major piece of legislation. ...

Clinton Takes Stand On Anti-Gay Marriage Law

AP | Posted 03.08.2013 | Politics

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...

Historic Shift In Congress Against DOMA Mirrors Shift In Public Opinion In Favor Of Marriage For Same-Sex Couples

Ian Thompson | Posted 05.07.2013 | Gay Voices
Ian Thompson

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.

Kristin Chenoweth: Jesus Would Be 'Horrified' By Anti-Gay Christians

The Huffington Post | JR Tungol | Posted 03.07.2013 | Gay Voices

Beloved long-time LGBT ally Kristin Chenowethdoes not let her Christianity get in the way of her unwavering support for marriage equality. In an in...

Catherine New

The Lame Reason A Retired Man Is Denied $1,100 Per Month

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine New | Posted 03.05.2013 | Business

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...

Dems Press VA On Gay Rights Issue

AP | KEVIN FREKING | Posted 03.05.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Sixteen Democratic senators are calling on the Veterans Affairs Department to keep granting waivers so that same-sex spouses can be buri...

Paul Blumenthal

DOMA Supreme Court Brief Argues Law Restricts Free Speech

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 03.03.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Six former Federal Election Commission (FEC) commissioners filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the Supreme Court on Friday in the cha...

Analysis: The Prop 8 Plaintiffs Debunk the 'Responsible Procreation' Argument for Good

Jacob Combs | Posted 05.01.2013 | Gay Voices
Jacob Combs

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.

Dems Urge Supreme Court To Strike Down Part Of DOMA

AP | Posted 05.01.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — More than 200 congressional Democrats are urging the Supreme Court to overturn a key provision of the federal law against gay marri...

Ryan J. Reilly

Obama Administration To Supreme Court: Prop. 8 Is Unconstitutional

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan J. Reilly | Posted 02.28.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to strike down California's ban on same-sex marriage as unconstitutional, s...

In Supreme Court Brief, American Sociological Association Obliterates Claim That Same-Sex Couples Are Inferior Parents

John Becker | Posted 04.30.2013 | Gay Voices
John Becker

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.

Ryan J. Reilly

15 States Tell Supreme Court DOMA Is Unconstitutional

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan J. Reilly | Posted 02.28.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Fifteen states will urge the Supreme Court to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act, arguing that the law preventing the federal gover...

The Constitutional Case for Marriage Equality

Doug Kendall | Posted 04.30.2013 | Gay Voices
Doug Kendall

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.

Facebook, Apple And Google Team Up To Overturn DOMA

Posted 02.27.2013 | Business

Over 200 tech companies, including Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and Ebay, have partnered together to file a brief arguing against the Defense O...

Separate But Equal Has Never Been Equal

Erik Newton | Posted 04.29.2013 | Gay Voices
Erik Newton

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.

Luke Johnson

Former GOP Rep. Denies Coming Out For Gay Marriage

HuffingtonPost.com | Luke Johnson | Posted 02.28.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- A former Republican congresswoman who sponsored the Federal Marriage Amendment while in office denied signing an amicus brief arguing th...

DOJ's Brief for Equality

Richard J. Rosendall | Posted 04.27.2013 | Gay Voices
Richard J. Rosendall

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).

Gay Veteran's DOMA Lawsuit Can Move Forward, Judge Rules

AP | Posted 02.26.2013 | Gay Voices

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...

Defense Of Marriage Act Unconstitutional, Obama Administration Tells Supreme Court

The Huffington Post | Anjali Sareen | Posted 02.23.2013 | Politics

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...

WATCH: How DOMA Still Hurts One Gay Military Couple After DADT Repeal

The Huffington Post | Glennisha Morgan | Posted 02.21.2013 | Gay Voices

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...

The Prop 8 and DOMA Cases Before the Supreme Court

Margaret Ryznar | Posted 04.22.2013 | Gay Voices
Margaret Ryznar

Next month, the United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases concerning same-sex marriage. What are the legal issues?