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DOMA

The Ennead Awards: Nine Justices, Nine Prizes

by John Culhane ● 3:06 PM April 2, 2013
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Before the arguments to the Supreme Court on Prop 8 and DOMA are erased from your memory tapes to make room for “Thrift Shop” (clean version only, please!), we present the First-Ever Ennead Awards.

Marriage

Breaking: DOMA Likely Dead — Reports From Journalists Inside The Supreme Court

by David Badash ● 12:39 PM March 27, 2013
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The Supreme Court just finished hearing oral arguments in the DOMA hearing of Edie Windsor, and by all accounts DOMA will be found unconstitutional and will be struck down.

DOMA

Boehner: I’m Spending $3 Million Defending DOMA To Show Obama He Doesn’t Make The Rules

by David Badash ● 1:35 PM March 23, 2013
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John Boehner admits the reason — at least one of them — that he is supporting DOMA in court is to show Barack Obama that the two-term President doesn’t get to make the rules.

Marriage

Boehner’s BLAG Claiming ‘Direct Injury On The House’ If DOMA Ruled Unconstitutional

by David Badash ● 1:25 PM February 25, 2013
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Speaker of the House John Boehner’s BLAG last week claimed that if the Supreme Court rules DOMA unconstitutional, it will have caused “a direct injury on the House.”

News

House GOP’s Anti-Gay Supreme Court Brief Reads Like 1950′s Racist Propaganda

by David Badash ● 7:00 AM January 24, 2013
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The House GOP yesterday filed a 60-page brief in the Supreme Court that addresses the upcoming DOMA case of Edie Windsor, and it reads like 1950′s propaganda.

DOMA

Republicans File Brief in Support Of DOMA – Gays Are Doing Fine Without Any Help

by Jean Ann Esselink ● 2:14 PM January 23, 2013
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The lawyer retained by House Republicans to defend DOMA has filed his brief in the case, stating the High Court should not intervene because gays are doing just fine fighting for legislative justice on their own.

DOMA

Boehner Secretly Raises ‘Debt Ceiling’ Of DOMA Defense Budget To $3 Million

by David Badash ● 4:33 PM January 15, 2013
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Speaker of the House John Boehner has again just secretly raised the “debt ceiling” on the budget of his hand-picked attorney who is defending DOMA in court.

Marriage

Boehner, Demanding Spending Cuts, Increases Budget To Protect Gay Marriage Ban

by David Badash ● 6:25 PM December 13, 2012
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John Boehner secretly allowed the raising of the budget to pay his hand-picked outside counsel who is fighting attempts to overturn DOMA.

News

John Boehner Thinks Gay Marriage Should Be Banned Because Of Polygamy

by David Badash ● 12:09 PM September 28, 2012
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Paul Clement, an attorney hand-picked by John Boehner – who is spending 1.5 million tax dollars to ban gay marriage – is arguing DOMA must live because of polygamy.

Civil Rights

Breaking: DOMA Declared Unconstitutional Again — By A Bush Appointee

by David Badash ● 2:41 PM July 31, 2012
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DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act, has yet again been declared unconstitutional by a federal court, marking seven federal courts ruling the 1996 law unconstitutional.

Actions

Opinion: Regnerus Study — Official Misconduct Allegations

by Scott Rose ● 1:07 PM July 26, 2012

Scott Rose files his official scientific and scholarly misconduct allegations against Mark Regnerus, regarding the flawed anti-gay parenting “study.”

Analysis

A Baylor University Institute Issues Letter in Support of Disreputable Regnerus Study

by Scott Rose ● 10:17 AM June 30, 2012
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 A Baylor University institute has issued  a letter of support on behalf of University of Texas faculty member Mark Regnerus’ disreputable study about children of gay parents  In response to growing criticism of Mark Regnerus so-called study about children of gay parents, a letter was released on June 20th through the Baylor Institute for the [...]

Analysis

Authors of Disreputable Anti-Gay Studies Triggered Growing Numbers of Critics, Rapidly Widening Scandal

by Scott Rose ● 4:15 PM June 25, 2012

Mark Regnerus, a professor at University of Texas, Austin and Loren Marks, a professor at Louisiana State University, authors of disreputable studies about gays have attracted growing numbers of critics in an apparent growing scandal   Reports on twinned studies now being used as anti-gay-rights weapons in the 2012 elections have to date focused mainly [...]

Bigotry Watch

Hold NOM’s Robert George Accountable For The Anti-Gay Regnerus Hit Job

by Scott Rose ● 1:57 PM June 18, 2012
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Time to hold accountable NOM’s Robert George, who’s behind $785,000 of funding for the Regnerus “study” that was supposed to be an election year anti-gay bloodbath.

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