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More positive polling for gay marriage, and a boost from flight attendants
More positive polling in Maine and Washington. Gay couples get a green light to sue over civil unions in New Jersey. A vote on DOMA gets postponed until next week. And marriage equality gets a boost from the National Association of Flight Attendants. This week’s Marriage News Watch is here…
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‘Commitment Campaign’ aims to reshape the debate on gay marriage
A bipartisan group backing legalization of same-sex marriage launched a new campaign on Monday, aimed at reshaping the debate from the topic of marriage “equality” to the value of “commitment.”
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Dan Avila: The Catholic culture warrior who went too far
The Catholic Church’s is a morally challenged institution that has yet to recover from multiple and ongoing pedophile priest scandals. While it scrounges up dwindling funds to fight marriage equality, it closes down Catholic schools across the nation, and shows grossly misplaced priorities and an unnatural obsession with homosexuality.
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Major U.S. corporations tell federal court: DOMA is bad for business
BOSTON — Seventy major U.S. companies, including CBS, Google, Microsoft, Nike and Starbucks, have come together in an “amicus” brief — commonly referred to as a “friend of the court” brief — claiming that the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is harmful to commerce.
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NJ judge: Lawsuit seeking same-sex marriage over civil unions can proceed
TRENTON, N.J. — A New Jersey Superior Court judge on Friday ruled that a lawsuit filed by the state’s largest LGBT advocacy group, which seeks to force the state to recognize same-sex marriage, can go forward.
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Santorum: Civil laws on same-sex marriage must comport with God’s law
GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum, staying laser focused on his anti-gay platform, told Iowa voters this week that civil laws relating to same-sex marriage must “comport with God’s law.”
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U.S. House Democrats join fight against DOMA in court
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and 132 other Democrats on Thursday joined in the fight to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act in court by filing a legal brief in support of litigation against the anti-gay law.
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Elon poll: Tar Heels of all ages and races oppose anti-LGBT amendment
Statewide LGBT advocacy and education group Equality North Carolina has released new data from a recent Elon University poll showing a majority of North Carolinians oppose an anti-LGBT state constitutional amendment that would ban marriage, civil unions and domestic partnerships for same-sex couples.
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Catholic Church making deal with the devil to stop marriage equality in Minnesota?
The Minnesota Family Council is scum. It is a group devoted to demonizing and stigmatizing the gay community through junk science and ugly propaganda. Yet it is the same group which Archbishop John Nienstedt seems no problem in teaming up with in order to stop marriage equality in Minnesota.
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NH lawmaker drops anti-gay marriage amendment in hopes of legislative repeal
CONCORD, N.H. — The primary sponsor of a bill that would add a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage in New Hampshire has decided not to pursue the measure, hoping instead that the legislature is successful in repealing the state’s existing marriage equality law.