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Santorum, Bachmann Pledge Continued Bigotry
Sun, 2011-07-10 23:00 — Anonymous— Rick Santorum has become the second Republican presidential candidate to sign a pro-marriage
pledge vowing to fight against same sex marriage, Sharia law and pornography.
When I first read it, I was taken aback by it. I can't argue that I wasn't,
he told CNN on Sunday.
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) was the first presidential candidate to sign the pledge, created by The Family Leader, a conservative, Iowa-based Christian group. Read more »
Federal Court Orders Government to State Position on Defense of DADT
Sun, 2011-07-10 23:00 — Anonymous&b>SAN DIEGO — A federal appeals court that has called for the immediate halt of the military's ban on openly gay troops issued an order Monday requiring the U.S. government to state whether it will continue to defend the policy's constitutionality in court. Read more »
Lambda Legal Files Supreme Court Case in Louisiana Birth Certificate Case
Sun, 2011-07-10 23:00 — AnonymousNEW ORLEANS — Lambda Legal filed a petition for a writ of certiorari asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case of a same-sex couple seeking an accurate birth certificate for their Louisiana-born son whom they adopted in New York. The state of Louisiana has refused to recognize the adoption and issue a birth certificate listing both fathers as the boy's parents. Read more »
Feds Concede DOMA Fight in Bankruptcy Court
Wed, 2011-07-06 23:00 — AnonymousSAN FRANCISCO — The bankruptcy case that became one of many battlegrounds in the fight over the Defense of Marriage Act has come to an end, with the Justice Department and congressional Republicans bowing out of the fight. Read more »
Senators Introduce "Respect for Marriage Act" to Repeal DOMA
Wed, 2011-03-16 23:00 — AnonymousCalifornia Senator Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation today to repeal a law that denies federal benefits to same-sex couples. Read more »
House Speaker Boehner Vows to Defend Inequality
Mon, 2011-03-07 00:00 — AnonymousWASHINGTON—House Speaker John Boehner, R.–Ohio, said on Friday that he is launching a legal defense of the federal law that limits the definition of marriage to the union between one man and one woman. Read more »
The End of DOMA? DoJ Will No Longer Defend Federal Definition of Marriage
Wed, 2011-02-23 00:00 — AnonymousWASHINGTON–The Attorney General made the following statement today about the Department's course of action in two lawsuits, Pedersen v. OPM and Windsor v. United States, challenging Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which defines marriage for federal purposes as only between a man and a woman: Read more »
US State Department Issues Amended Policy Guidelines on Passport Gender Markers
Fri, 2011-01-28 00:00 — AnonymousWASHINGTON, DC—In response to concerns raised by the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund and other organizations and individuals, the U.S. State Department today published amended policy guidelines for changing the gender marker on passports. Read more »
New Medicare Rules Require Equal Hospital Visitation Rights
Mon, 2011-01-24 00:00 — AnonymousWASHINGTON, DC—The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today issued new rules for Medicare- and Medicaid-participating hospitals that protect patients’ right to choose their own visitors during a hospital stay, including a visitor who is a same-sex domestic partner. Read more »
CA DOMA Challenge Can Proceed
Wed, 2011-01-19 00:00 — AnonymousOAKLAND—Three married gay and lesbian couples in which one partner is a state employee have won an important step in their fight for the equal right to buy long-term care insurance from the state's pension system. Read more »
