Tag Archives: DOMA

GOP Candidates Debate Marriage

Well, it’s not much of a “debate.”

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Obama Issues Pride Month Proclamation

The White House today issued a proclamation recognizing LGBT Pride Month. Metro Weekly notes that for the first time since Obama took office, the statement makes no mention of recognizing gay relationships. The proclamation begins: The story of America’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community is the story of our fathers and sons, our mothers and daughters, and our …

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Poll: Majority Of Christians Oppose DOMA

From a new poll conducted by the Human Rights Campaign: The poll shows that Christians of all ages support LGBT equality. In fact, 68 percent of Christians favor protecting LGBT people from discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations compared. This number is in line with the 70 percent of overall respondents who favor such protections. 74 percent of Christians …

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U.S. House Lawyers File To Intervene In Massachusetts DOMA Appeal

GLAD reports via press release: Today, the U.S. House of Representatives filed a motion to intervene in Gill v. Office of Personnel Management the multi-plaintiff challenge to Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), filed by Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) with co-counsel Foley Hoag LLP, Sullivan & Worcester and Jenner & Block in March 2009. …

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Binational Couples Tell Their Stories

Learn more here.(Tipped by JMG reader Chris)

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Huckabee: DOMA Will Hurt Obama 2012

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Family Research Council’s Peter Sprigg Celebrates Reversal Of Navy Policy

It took the FRC less than 48 hours to muster their GOP drones in Congress to force the Navy to rescind their new policy allowing same-sex marriages on bases in jurisdictions where it is legal.

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Tony Perkins On Navy Weddings

“If the administration keeps pounding its agenda through the military, we’ll need the Navy SEALs to rescue marriage. Last week, we started to see some of the fallout from the ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ repeal. Without bothering to consult Congress-or the law-Navy officials decided to revise their training manuals to better accommodate same-sex ‘marriage.’ In a letter to the chaplain …

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NEW JERSEY: Judge Temporarily Halts Deportation Of Gay Man

A New Jersey immigration judge today temporarily halted the deportation of Henry Velandia, who is legally married to a U.S. citizen. This follows yesterday’s move by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who vacated the decision to deport another gay man in the same situation. Henry Velandia, who faces deportation to Venezuela, is petitioning to be allowed to remain in the …

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Ron Paul: Get Government Out Of Marriage

And yet he goes on to defend DOMA.

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AG Eric Holder Vacates Deportation Ruling

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has vacated a ruling ordering the deportation of Paul Wilson Dorman, who under Section 3 of DOMA is not entitled to stay in the United States despite being in a legal union with an American citizen. Metro Weekly reports: Saying the attorney general “has taken [an] extraordinary step” with the decision, attorney Eric Berndt — …

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Concerned Women Are Concernstipated About King & Spalding’s “Cowardice”

The Concerned Women for America have bestowed their first ever “Cave, Man” award on King & Spalding chairman Robert Hays. Yes, the firm which boldly defended Guantanamo Bay detainees apparently finds it inconceivable to defend the American people and federal law. They had no problem treating pro-lifers as mobsters, as they argued in Scheidler v. National Organization of Women, but …

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Syracuse Chorus – Down With DOMA

From the Syracuse Gay & Lesbian Chorus.

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NRA Fires King & Spalding

The NRA has joined the state of Virginia in firing the Atlanta-based law firm King & Spalding. According to the NRA, the organization has no official position on DOMA. In a letter dated today to King & Spalding chairman Robert Hays, NRA general counsel David Lehman said the firm’s decision was “indefensible” but emphasized that the NRA’s action in dropping …

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Matt Baume: Marriage News Watch

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VIRGINIA: King & Spalding Fired By AG Ken Cuccinelli For DOMA “Weakness”

Notoriously anti-gay Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has fired the Atlanta-based law firm King & Spalding for backing out of the DOMA cases. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has ended his office’s relationship with the law firm that earlier this week said it would not represent the House of Representatives in its case supporting the Defense of Marriage Act. In …

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Tony Perkins: Gay Activists Are Terrorists

“This has moved from cultural terrorism to corporate terrorism. That’s what this is. Now, back in the 80’s and early 90’s I worked with the state department in anti-terrorism and we trained about fifty different countries in defending against terrorism, and it’s, at it’s base, what terrorism is, it’s a strike against the general populace simply to spread fear and …

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MSNBC Interviews Binational Gay Couple Facing Deportation

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Maggie Gallagher On The HRC

“To anyone who has been at the forefront of the marriage fight, there is little new in the extraordinary effort to punish a whole law firm because HRC doesn’t like its client. Gay marriage advocates have again and again used class networks of power to attack individuals, livelihoods and whole business enterprises to make support for marriage so expensive that …

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Tony Perkins Vs. Coca-Cola

Ever since King & Spalding dropped their DOMA cases, word has been that their top hometown client Coca-Cola had some role in convincing them to pull out. Yesterday FRC president Tony Perkins hinted that Coke may be next on their shitlist. Via press release: While this form of corporate terrorism may have paid off temporarily, even the press is chiding …

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