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New York joins Massachusetts in challenging constitutionality of DOMA
After legalizing same-sex marriages last month, New York State now has joined Massachusetts in challenging the federal governments Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
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Marinelli: NOM staff spent money on $500 dinners and gambling
Former National Organization for Marriage ally Louis J. Marinelli is now claiming that during last year’s dismal “Summer for Marriage” tour, the organization’s staff spent money on $500 dinners and gambling.
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New York gay couples marry, Al Franken catches a fibber in DOMA hearing
Pretty quiet week, nothing too exciting — except everyone in New York getting married! Plus hearings on DOMA repeal, with Al Franken calling out an anti-gay liar. Plus more news from Maryland to Washington state. This week’s Marriage News Watch is here.
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‘The View’ talks NY gay marriage; Hasselbeck condemns anti-gay protesters
The ladies of ABC’s “The View” on Monday talked marriage equality, sending out their congratulations to New York gay and lesbian couples who married on Sunday, the first day in which gay unions became legal.
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WSJ calls out NOM’s ‘Let the People Vote’ campaign as ‘deceptive advertising’
The Wall Street Journal on Monday called out the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) for what it calls “deceptive advertising” in its sore-loser campaign entitled “Let the People Vote.”
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Opponents of same-sex marriage file suit to overturn NY marriage equality law
LIVINGSTON COUNTY, N.Y. — A so-called christian family values group has filed a legal challenge seeking to overturn New York’s same-sex marriage law less than twenty four hours after it took effect yesterday. The group — New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, led by Reverend Jason J. McGuire — claimed in the court documents filed this […]
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Tom Minnery’s lies are commonplace in religious right data
Minnery’s misreading of study in order present a bad picture of same-sex households is commonplace in religious right data. Often times, religious right spokespeople will cite studies which have nothing to do with same-sex households in order to claim that these households are not the best place to raise children.
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Tim Pawlenty: marriage equality ‘defies common sense’
GOP presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty, appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, said that gay marriage being equal to heterosexual marriage “defies common sense.”
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As Westboro protests NY gay marriage, same-sex couples are unfazed
About a dozen protesters from the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., gathered outside of Manhattan Clerks office this morning to protest the legalization of marriage equality in New York State.
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History unfolds in New York: A ‘watershed moment’ in the gay rights movement
At 12:01 a.m., July 24, 2011, New York became the sixth and most populous U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage.