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FRC 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.”
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House, 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 and veterans, in an effort to provide key military benefits for same-sex spouses of gay service members.
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Leahy wants immigration benefits for same-sex couples
WASHINGTON — Sen. Patrick Leahy wants the government to start affording same-sex, married couples the same immigration benefits that heterosexual couples now enjoy.
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Barber, Staver: When the Constitution was written, homosexuality was a ‘crime against nature’
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 it is “absurd” to think that the Constitution guarantees any right to same-sex marriage because at the time the Constitution was written, homosexuality was widely considered to be a “crime against nature.”
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Panetta 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.
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Charlie 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 cancer, according to a statement by OutServe-SLDN.
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Gay dads don’t serve amicus briefs when we invite Supreme Court justices to dinner
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 on a daily basis. Nan Hunter, on The Nation, observed that the briefs are actually derogatory towards opposite gender families, and giving same […]
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Utah 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 California’s Proposition 8. Utah Pride said it has retained a bipartisan team of prominent Utah attorneys to challenge Utah’s system of […]
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FRC briefs: Anti-gay laws reflect public opinion; gay rights laws reflect powerful gay lobby
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 voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage.
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Same-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 include such language in immigration reform.