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Just IN – the US Supreme Court WILL hear the Prop 8 and DOMA cases. Oral arguments in April – decisions likely in June of 2013. So no local events going on today. We were only going to rally if marriages were to begin in California immediately. The Supreme Court announced this […]
Just IN – the US Supreme Court WILL hear the Prop 8 Read More »
With repeal last year of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell law, many military people, including senior leaders, assumed that married gay and lesbian couples had gained not only job security but also equality in allowances, benefits and access to family support programs. That assumption is wrong. Since the law took effect 14 months ago, the
Military Still Views Married Gay, Lesbians as Single Read More »
The Human Rights Campaign on NOM’s bigotry mastermind: Public filings show that he has netted nearly $3 million this year for his work in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, North Carolina, and Washington State. The profits go to Schubert’s company, Mission Public Affairs. Schubert collected $958,594 for his anti-equality work in North Carolina earlier this year. In
Anti-Gay Mastermind Makes $3 Million in 2012 Opposing Marriage Equality Read More »
After two decades in which gay rights moved from the margin to capture the support of most Americans, the Supreme Court justices will go behind closed doors this week to decide whether now is the time to rule on whether gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry. For justices, the issue is not
Supreme Court decides this week whether to rule on gay marriage Read More »
Shows with gay characters, like Glee, Modern Family, and The New Normal, are helping drive voters to historically unprecedented support of gay marriage, an Oct. 29 THR poll conducted in conjunction with partner Penn Schoen Berland has found. Though gay TV also makes some voters more intensely opposed to gay marriage, they are outnumbered by
Gay Friendly TV Shows Helping to Drive Marriage Equality Poll Surge Read More »
California Senate President Darrell Steinberg is open to putting an initiative on the ballot asking voters to repeal Proposition 8, the state’s gay marriage ban. “Depending upon what the Supreme Court might or might not do with Proposition 8,” Steinberg told The Sacramento Bee, “in coalition with stakeholders and the gay and lesbian leadership,
New Democratic Supermajority Could Put Prop 8 Repeal on Ballot Read More »
CNN commentator on Supreme Court news Jeff Toobin said Sunday he believes the high court will take the Massachusetts case challenging the Defense of Marriage Act but that it will decline to consider Proposition 8. Speaking at a forum at the JFK Presidential Library in Boston November 18, Toobin said, “I don’t believe they are
CNN’s Jeff Toobin Predicts Supreme Court Won’t Take Prop 8 Case, Will Hear DOMA Suits Read More »
The National Organization for Marriage’s Ruth Institute is promoting the idea that being gay is as “harmful” as smoking. In a crosspost on its blog, the Ruth Institute asks, “How much worse do the risks of gay sex have to be before it rates the same public health warnings as smoking?” Here’s an excerpt from
The Ruth Institute: Label Being Gay Just Like Cigarettes Read More »
This year might bring the first-ever statewide vote in favor of marriage for same-sex couples — and for that you have your grandmother to thank. Why? Because contrary to conventional wisdom, Americans born in the 1940s have been changing their minds on the marriage issue faster than nearly any other age group. And they are
Think Tank: Thank Your Grandparents for Marriage Equality Poll Surge Read More »
In the afterglow of Tuesday’s election, the term “historic turning point” for LGBT rights is hardly an overstatement. The passage of equal marriage rights by popular vote in three states, the blockage of an anti-equality constitutional amendment in a fourth (after losses in 30 other states), plus the reelection of the first president to ever
Why Do Many Corporations Embrace Marriage Equality? Read More »
