With a growing sense of confidence that the ban on same-sex marriages will once and forever be felled by the U.S. Supreme Court this June, civil rights groups and lawyers fear that conservative forces in Texas will punish the LGBT community by enacting laws that undermine an already tenuous environment for equality. According to DailyTexanOnline.com,…
Jaimee and Caitlin from Asbury Park, N.J. are the first same-sex couple to make finalists for The Knot’s Dream Wedding, and voting is happening now! The Knot has quickly become the No. 1 wedding Web site and America’s leading wedding brand reaching out to millions of engaged couples each year. Out of 1,400 couple applicants…
WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and U.S. Rep. Randy Weber, Sr. (R-TX) have reintroduced the so-called State Marriage Defense Act which would require the federal government to recognize only marriages that are valid under the laws of the state in which a couple are domiciled. The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) have strongly condemned…
WASHINGTON – Today, the Human Rights Campaign launched an unprecedented “People’s Brief” to the U.S. Supreme Court. Roberta Kaplan, the leading civil rights litigator who won a landmark Supreme Court ruling in United States v. Windsor striking down Section 3 of the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act in 2013, is the author and lead counsel on the brief. The…
WASHINGTON—After staying silent all morning—and tolerating Chief Justice Roy Moore’s lawless rampage against marriage equality over the past few days—Alabama Governor Robert Bentley has issued a statement. What does it say? Nothing. Nothing coherent, anyway. “This issue has created confusion with conflicting direction for Probate Judges in Alabama,” Bentley says, in a written statement posted…
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), the senator who compared same-sex marriage to polygamy wants the Supreme Court to uphold state same-sex marriage bans. Speaking to the Washington Blade, Graham made his position very clear: “I hope the court will allow each state to define marriage within its borders.” Graham even indicated an openness to the constitutional…
To her surprise and disappointment, lawyer Dana Nessel, who will represent April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse from Michigan in this year’s Supreme Court debate over same-sex marriage, has found out that her biggest adversaries aren’t anti-gay groups like the National Organization for Marriage and the Southern Baptist Convention. Rather, they are the poster children of…
President Obama has expressed his hope that the U.S. Supreme Court make the “right decision” on the issue of same-sex marriage. Justin Snow reported in MetroWeekly that Obama said these remarks during an interview on Thursday with one of three YouTube creators at the White House. “My hope is that they go ahead and recognize…
Colin Farrell, one of Ireland’s best rising stars in Hollywood, recently sat down with Irish TV network RTE on the Claire Byrne Live to discuss his support for a referendum that would legalize marriage between same-sex couples in Ireland. Throughout the interview Farrell details his experiences growing up with a gay brother and how this…
The Mormon Church has moved to excommunicate the prominent Utah-based founder of an online forum for being critical of or doubting Mormons, charging him with apostasy for supporting same-sex marriage and the ordination of women and for questioning church teaching, reports the New York Times. John Dehlin is the founder of Mormon Stories Podcast (http://mormonstories.org)….
