Despite legal unions, same-sex couples still can’t file joint federal taxes
WASHINGTON — Even though an increasing number of states are legalizing gay marriage, same-sex married couples still won’t be able to file joint federal tax returns this year. The federal Defense of...
View ArticleHouse GOP to Supreme Court: Gays too powerful to warrant judicial protection...
Republican members of the U.S. House leadership on Tuesday told the U.S. Supreme Court it should uphold the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) as constitutional, arguing that gays and lesbians are a...
View ArticleAmicus brief: U.S. Supreme Court does not have authority to rule on DOMA -...
The U.S. Supreme Court does not have the authority to rule on the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, argued a Harvard professor in a brief filed Thursday with the high court.
View ArticleAnti-gay legal briefs ‘mischaracterized’ parenting study
Attorneys who submitted anti-gay briefs to the Supreme Court in favor of California’s Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act are continuing the mischaracterization of a 2002 study on child...
View ArticleDefending DOMA: How $3 million could have been better spent
The Center for American Progress looks at the cost of defending the Defense of Marriage Act, and how $3 million could have been better spent.
View ArticleSame-sex couples missing from Senate immigration plan
A blueprint for comprehensive immigration reform made public on Monday by a bipartisan group of senators contains no provision for bi-national same-sex couples, despite the push among LGBT advocates to...
View ArticleFRC briefs: Anti-gay laws reflect public opinion; gay rights laws reflect...
The Family Research Council submitted two amicus briefs to the Supreme Court on Monday, urging it to reject challenges to the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and to California’s Proposition 8, a...
View ArticleUtah LGBT advocacy group to file amicus briefs in DOMA, Prop 8 cases
SALT LAKE CITY – The Utah Pride Center announced Wednesday that it will file an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in the pending cases involving the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and...
View ArticleGay dads don’t serve amicus briefs when we invite Supreme Court justices to...
Same-sex marriage is before the Supreme Court and the anti-gay community is out in force. Propaganda-like amicus briefs from the anti-gay community seem to be papering the walls of the Supreme Court...
View ArticleCharlie Morgan, fighter for LGBT military equality, succumbs to cancer -...
Charlie Morgan, a Chief Warrant Officer of the New Hampshire National Guard and a plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging the federal Defense of Marriage Act, died Sunday after a long battle with breast...
View ArticlePanetta announces extended benefits to same-sex military families
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta on Monday announced he will extend to nearly the full extent permitted under current law the benefits available to gay and lesbian service members and their families.
View ArticleBarber, Staver: When the Constitution was written, homosexuality was a ‘crime...
Mat Staver and Matt Barber were discussing the two amicus briefs that Liberty Counsel has filed with the Supreme Court for the hearings on the Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8, claiming that...
View ArticleLeahy wants immigration benefits for same-sex couples - Will intorduce...
WASHINGTON — Sen. Patrick Leahy wants the government to start affording same-sex, married couples the same immigration benefits that heterosexual couples now enjoy.
View ArticleHouse, Senate bills aim to equalize benefits for same-sex military families
A pair of bills introduced in the U.S. Congress this week would change the definition of "spouse" in four areas of U.S. Code related to recognition, support, and benefits for married service members...
View ArticleFRC urges Congress to ‘pressure the Supreme Court’ on marriage cases
The Family Research Council has launched what it is describing as “an ambitious, no-holds-barred campaign to keep marriage as between one man and one woman and preserve the American family.”
View ArticlePoll: Majority of voters agree, Defense of Marriage Act discriminates
A new poll released Tuesday by the Center for American Progress and Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD), found that an increasing number of voters see the federal Defense of Marriage Act...
View ArticleObama administration urges U.S. Supreme Court to strike down DOMA - 'Gay and...
The Obama administration on Friday filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing why it considers the federal Defense of Marriage Act to be unconstitutional.
View ArticleSuze Orman: Gay Americans pay more taxes for fewer rights
Personal finance expert Suze Orman says that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which bars the federal government from recognizing legal same-sex marriages, imposes steep financial penalties on gay...
View ArticleJudge refuses to dismiss gay California veteran’s lawsuit
LOS ANGELES -- A lawsuit brought by a lesbian U.S. Army veteran and her wife over the denial of disability benefits can move forward over the objections of the Department of Justice, a federal judge in...
View ArticleEdith Windsor calls on U.S. Supreme Court to strike down DOMA
Edith Windsor, the New York widow who was forced to pay $363,000 in estate taxes in 2009 upon the death of her spouse, Thea Spyer, made her case to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, filing a brief in...
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