Tag Archives: DOMA

And they bring on Maggie to ride the waambulance!

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley will hold a DOMA press conference at 3:30PM today. In the meantime, you know what to do.

Barber followed the above tweet with one calling the president a “fruit.”

House Speaker John Boehner’s spokesman just issued this terse statement: “While Americans want Washington to focus on creating jobs and cutting spending, the President will have to explain why he thinks now is the appropriate time to stir up a controversial issue that sharply divides the nation.” Talking Points Memo sez: “Boehner could, in theory, intervene as a third party …

Human Rights Campaign “This is a monumental decision for the thousands of same-sex couples and their families who want nothing more than the same rights and dignity afforded to other married couples,” said HRC President Joe Solmonese. “As the President has stated previously, DOMA unfairly discriminates against Americans and we applaud him for fulfilling his oath to defend critical constitutional …

In a stunning announcement, today Attorney General Eric Holder declared that the federal government will no longer defend Section 3 of DOMA in court. Here is an excerpt from Holder’s statement. After careful consideration, including a review of my recommendation, the President has concluded that given a number of factors, including a documented history of discrimination, classifications based on sexual …

Focus On The Family’s zombie followers are flooding Congress with petitions demanding the defunding of Planned Parenthood and the blockage and repeal of LGBT rights. 4.) Defend the free exercise of religion and speech by rejecting the proposed Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) and repealing the Hate Crimes bill passed in 2009. 5.) Support the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and …

From the New York Times editorial board. The 1996 Defense of Marriage Act is indefensible — officially sanctioned discrimination against one group of Americans imposed during an election year. President Obama seems to know that, or at least he has called on Congress to repeal it. So why do his government’s lawyers continue to defend the act in court? [snip] …

GLAD has posted a round-up of the anti-gay groups who have filed DOMA amicus briefs in their case, Gill v. Office of Personnel Management. Agudath Israel of AmericaAmerican College of Pediatricians [FAKE]Attorneys General of SC, UT, IN, MI, COConcerned Women for AmericaCongressman Lamar SmithEagle ForumFamily Research CouncilFoundation for Moral LawRobert GeorgeGeorge GovermanLiberty CounselMassachusetts Family InstituteNARTHNational Legal FoundationNational Organization for MarriagePacific …

The luggage-lifters at NARTH have the hilarious nerve to file a DOMA amicus brief after their now-disgraced leader went on a ten day European vacation with a lithe young Latino hottie rentboy.

Yesterday Tea Party-backed GOP state Rep. Nora Espinoza introduced a state-level version of DOMA. Equality New Mexico reports on their Facebook page: This very concept of creating less equal classes of people has been fought against for generations in New Mexico and is contrary to our state’s proud traditions of providing equal protection and opportunity for her citizens from every …

Former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has filed a DOMA amicus brief with the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston. In 2003 Moore was booted from office for refusing to remove a two-ton monument to the Ten Commandments from his office. A member of the Christian Nationalist movement, which seeks to overturn democracy in favor of a …

A federal judge in California has ruled that state employees may sue the federal government for excluding their partners from a long-term health care program. U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken of Oakland denied an Obama administration request to dismiss the suit Tuesday and signaled that she is likely to overturn provisions of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which denies …

Yesterday a legal arm of the Family Research Council filed a DOMA amicus brief with the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Massachusetts. Via Christian Newswire: The brief, authored by Thomas More Society’s special counsel Paul Linton, argues two points in defense of the constitutionality of DOMA: 1. There is no Federal Constitutional Right to enter into a same-sex marriages. …

Today White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said that a legislative overturn of DOMA is “inordinately challenging given the current make-up of Congress.” No kidding. Gibbs dodged a reporter’s question on whether the president regrets not moving on DOMA when the Democrats controlled the House and instead referenced the “monumental achievement” of the repeal of DADT.

“Apparently, the administration is so fixated on making the homosexual community happy that it’s not even working to uphold what’s best for kids. In this instance, the Justice Department seems to imply that by doing their job they’re somehow doing America a favor. Hardly! Defending the law is DOJ’s whole reason for existence. So while the President may have strong …

“The DOJ brief amounts to collusive litigation, failing to even offer to the court, much less vigorously defend, the reasons Congress laid out in the statute when it passed DOMA, especially responsible procreation. This is an attack not only on marriage, but on the prerogatives of Congress. The Executive branch should not attempt to exercise this kind of retroactive line-item …

The Department of Justice yesterday filed its defense of the overturn of Section Three of the Defense of Marriage Act, which was ruled unconstitutional last July in Gill v. Office of Personnel Management and Massachusetts v. United States. A quote from the government’s brief comes via Chris Geidner at Metro Weekly: DOMA is supported by rationales that constitute a sufficient …