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Defense of Marriage Act

Civil Rights

EXCLUSIVE: A Conversation With Chief Justice John Roberts’ Cousin, LGBT Activist Jean Podrasky

by Joanne Kalogeras ● 2:53 PM May 18, 2013
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts’ cousin, San Francisco activist Jean Podrasky and her partner Grace Fasano talk with The New Civil Rights Movement’s Joanne Kalogeras.

Immigration

DOMA Separates Now Legally-Married Couple, 17 Times In Six Years (Video)

by David Badash ● 6:18 PM May 14, 2013
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David and Jason met in 2007, were legally married in New York in 2012, and have been forced apart by DOMA 17 times in the six years they have been together.

Arts

The Clerk Says You Are Not

by Chivas Sandage ● 1:06 PM April 6, 2013
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Chivas Sandage wrote this poem and read it at last week’s Marriage Equality Rally in Hartford, Connecticut, which she helped organize.

Analysis

DOMA Case Analysis And Arguments: A Lesbian Love-In Small Screen Celluloid Moment

by Tanya Domi ● 5:27 PM March 28, 2013
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It was lesbian heaven on the small screen celluloid world last night when Rachel Maddow kicked off her show with a loving treatise to Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg during a segment filled with and defined by powerful women who have changed our world for the better.

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.

Marriage

Tweet Of The Day: Hudson Taylor — 10 Things Legalized Same-Sex Marriage Could Pay For

by David Badash ● 2:39 PM March 25, 2013
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Hudson Taylor, founder of Athlete Ally, sent out a tweet with this amazing image today, “10 Things Legalized Same-Sex Marriage Could Pay For.”

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.

DOMA

Watch: Pelosi Calls DOMA ‘Definitely Unconstitutional’ And Suggests GOP Knew It In 2005

by David Badash ● 12:49 PM March 23, 2013
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Nancy Pelosi on Thursday told reporters she believes DOMA is “definitely unconstitutional,” and is suggesting the GOP knew this as far back as at least 2005.

Marriage

Gays Don’t Want Equality Because There’s No Right For Pedophiles To Marry Says Fischer

by David Badash ● 4:45 PM March 11, 2013
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Bryan Fischer claims “homosexuals” want inequality, not equality, because pedophiles and polygamists cannot get married, and claimed “homosexuals can get married, everywhere, just like everybody else.”

DOMA

So Why Did Bill Clinton Sign DOMA — And Write An Op-Ed Disavowing It 17 Years Later?

by David Badash ● 9:29 AM March 8, 2013
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Last night Bill Clinton published in the Washington Post an op-ed claiming to explain why he signed DOMA in 1996, and said he now wants the Supreme Court to overturn it. But why?

Discrimination

New Poll: Six Out Of Ten Americans Say DOMA is Discrimination (Infographic)

by David Badash ● 1:47 PM February 19, 2013
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A new poll finds that six out of ten Americans believe DOMA is discrimination and oppose the law that bans the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriage.

DOMA

Defense Secretary To Extend Benefits To Gay Military Families, Not All Are Pleased

by David Badash ● 6:00 PM February 5, 2013
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Outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is expected to announce this week that the Pentagon will extend benefits to gay and lesbian families, but the move is set to please few on either side.

Discrimination

Stephen Colbert On DOMA: GOP Says We Can’t Give Gays Rights Until We Wrong Them

by David Badash ● 11:04 AM January 31, 2013
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On “The Colbert Report,” Stephen Colbert used “The Word” to look at how the House GOP is “defending” DOMA, concluding gays can’t get rights until they’re wronged.

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.

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