Citing Junk Science Child-Rearing Study, US Judge Rejects Hawaii Marriage Challenge

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Citing Junk Science Child-Rearing Study, US Judge Rejects Hawaii Marriage Challenge

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | A federal district court judge in Honolulu has ruled that Hawaii’s law excluding same-sex couples from marriage does not violate the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution. Senior District Judge Alan C. Kay, on August 8, granted a motion for summary judgment filed by Hawaii’s director of health, Loretta J. [...]

August 9, 201227388 Comments2012-08-09+21%3A09%3A16adminRead More

ACLU Seeks Supreme Court Review in Windsor DOMA Suit

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | Following hard on the petitions filed by the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group of the House of Representatives (BLAG) and the US solicitor general to get the Supreme Court to take up the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the LGBT Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties [...]

July 18, 201223552 Comments2012-07-18+15%3A40%3A47adminRead More

Appellate Panel Upholds New York’s Marriage Equality Law

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | A unanimous panel of the New York Appellate Division has rejected a challenge to the state’s Marriage Equality Law (MEA) enacted on June 24, 2011. The July 6 ruling, from the Rochester-based 4th Department, came in response to a suit bought by New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms (NYCF), a group [...]

July 7, 201223123 Comments2012-07-07+18%3A52%3A37adminRead More

New Yorker Edie Windsor Prevails Over DOMA

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | In yet another blow to the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a federal judge in the Southern District of New York has granted Edith (Edie) Schlain Windsor summary judgment in her claim that denying federal recognition to her Canadian marriage to the late Thea Spyer deprives her of the equal protection [...]

June 7, 201215075 Comments2012-06-07+20%3A02%3A14adminRead More

As Maine Goes…

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | On November 6, for the first time in the nation’s history, marriage equality advocates will put before voters an affirmative ballot question aiming to give gay and lesbian couples the freedom to marry. Having delivered more than 105,000 signatures to the Secretary of State’s Office in Augusta this past January (in [...]

June 6, 201213501 CommentAs+Maine+Goes...2012-06-06+16%3A20%3A48adminRead More

Ninth Circuit Declines to Re-Hear Prop 8

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has let stand a three-judge ruling that strikes down California’s Proposition 8. In a June 5 decision, the circuit denied a bid to grant rehearing by a larger panel of circuit judges — sitting en banc — of a February three-judge panel [...]

June 6, 20121368No Comment2012-06-06+16%3A00%3A22adminRead More

Unanimous Appeals Court Panel Strikes Down DOMA

BY ARTHUR S. LEONARD | A unanimous three-judge panel of the Boston-based US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled on May 31 that Section 3 of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) violates the Constitution’s Fifth Amendment guarantee of equal protection. The ruling came on consolidated appeals in two cases –– one [...]

May 31, 201212775 Comments2012-05-31+21%3A22%3A44adminRead More

In Highline’s Shadow, Christine Quinn Weds Kim Catullo

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | In the highest profile same-sex wedding since marriage equality became a reality in New York State last July, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn married her partner of a decade, attorney Kim Catullo, in an early evening ceremony on May 19 at the Highline Stages in Chelsea. In fact, the wedding of [...]

May 19, 201295110 Comments2012-05-20+01%3A17%3A06adminRead More

This Could Happen to You

Actors Shane Bitney Crone and Tom Bridegroom lived together in Los Angeles, where they had been lovers for six years. In 2010, Tom gave Shane a promise ring, and the two planned to marry when they legally could do so in California. On May 7 of last year, Tom, doing a model photo shoot on [...]

May 16, 20125913 CommentsThis+Could+Happen+to+You2012-05-16+16%3A43%3A05adminRead More

Obama Endorses Marriage Equality

BY PAUL SCHINDLER | In a stunning turn of events, President Barack Obama endorsed marriage equality this afternoon, in a taped interview with Robin Roberts, a co-host of ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “At a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I [...]

May 15, 20122413 CommentsObama+Endorses+Marriage+Equality2012-05-15+23%3A37%3A42adminRead More

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