“My number one issue is: How do we support them and rally behind the gay community to make sure it’s safe for them, just, to live?” he said of international dangers. Uncertain on DOMA.
The gay conservative is considering taking on the senior South Carolina senator in 2014. He also is taking on gay progressives — and defending DOMA.
“[W]e can now see that the understandings on which DOMA was premised have not survived our nation’s increased knowledge about same-sex families or our modern understanding of what equality requires,” the senators write. The brief is one of several filed today in support of Edith Windsor’s challenge to DOMA.
“Far from creating uniformity, DOMA obliges employers to treat an employee married to someone of the same sex and an employee married to someone of a different sex unequally,” the employers write.
“DOMA today operates not to defend marriage for straight people, but only to undermine the institution of marriage as it now exists where gay couples are allowed to marry,” lawyers for Edith Windsor argue in a filing at the Supreme Court.
The Alliance Defending Freedom is urging prayers for the lawyers fighting to uphold Proposition 8 and DOMA for them, their families, and their “service on behalf of the just and worthy cause of protecting marriage.” Lawyers opposing the laws get prayers “that God would manifest His goodness in [their] life.”
“The Constitution … requires that Section 3 be invalidated,” Obama’s Supreme Court lawyer argues.
America’s Catholic bishops have gone from a strong attack on interracial marriage bans in 1967 to a plea against being “held hostage” by states that allow same-sex couples to marry in 2013.
Having served in the New Hampshire National Guard, Morgan made her voice heard on Capitol Hill, in the White House and in the courts. “I’m trying to stand up for all we believe in in this country,” she said of her efforts, including as a plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging DOMA.
“We’ve gone from a Senate that passed DOMA over my objections to one that just welcomed its first openly gay senator,” Kerry said. Sens. Boxer, Feinstein & Wyden joined Kerry in voting against DOMA in 1996.
Harvard law professor argues the Obama administration’s decision to stop defending the law in 2011 means the Supreme Court can’t hear the case. House Republican leaders cannot take the administration’s place, the lawyer also argues.
In Tuesday Supreme Court filing, House Republican leaders defend the 1996 law defining marriage as between one man and one woman.
The day after a broad affirmation of LGBT equality, the White House press secretary dodges the question while pressed on the issue. Advocates want answers.
With the campaign over and the speech done, LGBT advocates will expect tangible action from the White House.
“[I]f we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well,” Obama said Monday. The first time a president said the word “gay” in an inaugural address.
The gay conservative group had avoided taking a position on the issue in the past. LaSalvia cites a need for “a truly conservative voice” to stand up for marriage equality.
“This clandestine commitment of taxpayer funds is highly irregular and objectionable, and it must end now,” Democratic leaders write to Boehner about the increased cost cap.
Edith Windsor never meant to be the face of a decades-long political, legal and civil-rights battle. But it’s a role that suits her well.
“Truly disheartening,” says LGBT rights advocate. But Boehner’s office says it’s just defending “checks and balances.”
Months before it will hear oral arguments in the cases challenging the Defense of Marriage Act and California’s Proposition 8, the Supreme Court staff already are getting ready. Visit the DOMA/Prop 8 page at the court: DOMPRP8.aspx.
House leaders move to ensure the upcoming Supreme Court hearing considering the Defense of Marriage Act will be the last.
A major shift for a key conservative. Gingrich oversaw passage of the Defense of Marriage Act as speaker of the House of Representatives in the 1990s.
Neither the Congress nor the White House have taken action on a law to stop anti-LGBT job discrimination or an executive order to ban contractors from doing so. Sen. Jeff Merkley and Rep. Jared Polis plan a new push.
“I wanted to propose at the White House because that was where we went on our first date,” wrote U.S. Marine Corps captain Matthew Phelps in an email to BuzzFeed about his Saturday night marriage proposal to Ben Schock.
Action in the case, beginning in mid-January, will continue through until the court hears oral arguments in the case. The 1996 law has been struck down by two appeals courts.
House Republicans authorized the $500,000 increase to their DOMA defense as case heads to the Supreme Court.
A college freshman drew attention this week for challenging conservative Justice Antonin Scalia over his views on homosexuality. Here are the cases behind the exchange.
Artist Tatjana Plitt has been capturing same-sex couples serving in the military to raise awareness about the discrimination caused by the Defense Of Marriage Act.
Officer’s wife excluded for lacking a military ID card. The Pentagon’s nearly 15-month review on benefits changes after “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” now in the spotlight.
A Harvard Law School professor will argue that the Obama administration’s actions opposing DOMA mean the court can’t hear the appeal.
