The Pentagon announced that it mailed out 150,000 new “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” surveys on Aug, 23 seeking input from military spouses about the proposed repeal of the law that bars openly gay men and lesbians from serving in the military. “We understand the inextricable link between the families, servicemembers and readiness, and this survey [...]
The decision by three judges from the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upsets gay couples in California who had hoped to wed when a temporary hold expired Wednesday. But a legal expert says the ruling could be a strategic victory for Prop. 8 opponents. A federal appeals court decided Monday to put same-sex marriage [...]
Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum says he opposes same-sex couples as parents, but he would wait until a challenge to Florida’s ban on gay adoption makes its way to the state’s highest court before deciding whether to try to stop gay couples from being foster parents. McCollum, a Republican running for governor, was asked at [...]
Chris Wallace asked Olson to identify the right to same-sex marriage in the constitution and wondered why “seven million Californians” “don’t get to say that marriage is between a man and a woman.” Olson replied that the Supreme Court has ruled that marriage was a fundamental right and pointed out that the constitution made no [...]
Fareed Zakaria, the CNN host and Newsweek columnist, has returned a prestigious prize to the Anti-Defamation League, another rebuke for the esteemed civil rights group’s opposition to an Islamic center near ground zero. Zakaria, who received the ADL’s Hubert Humphrey First Amendment Freedoms Prize five years ago, gave back the honor to ADL for publicly [...]
Right now, LGBT citizens are trapped in a choice between a party that opposes their very existence and a party that, you know, kind of wishes them well. And so the typical policy among Democrats is to do as little as possible for as long as they can. Figuring that if the Republican party never [...]
In a long-awaited ruling, Judge Vaughn Walker says the ban on same-sex marriage violates constitutional rights to equal protection and due process. The decision is expected to reach the Supreme Court. The judge said the ballot initiative that banned same-sex marriage was based on moral disapproval of gay marriage and ordered the state to stop [...]
U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker, who presided over a trial earlier this year on the constitutionality of Proposition 8, will release his long-awaited ruling Wednesday on whether the 2008 ballot initiative violates the U.S. Constitution, a court spokeswoman said. Walker, an appointee of President George H.W. Bush, heard myriad witnesses testify about the [...]