gay marriage

A California school district settled a discrimination suit against a transgender student. The agreement ensures the school will take positive steps to guarantee equality for all transgender students.

In an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network's David Brody on Friday, Ted Cruz rehashed the false right-wing claims that gay rights advocates intend to pass hate speech laws and force pastors to perform same-sex nuptials.

In an effort to provide up-to-date information and guidance for same-sex couples and families in Washington State, and in response to the recent Supreme Court decisions surrounding marriage equality, McKinley Irvin, the leading Pacific Northwest family law firm, has published a Comprehensive Legal Guide to Same-Sex Marriage, Parenting and Divorce.

Two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), Lambda Legal and the ACLU of Illinois filed papers asking the court for a swift end to the harm and indignity couples face without the freedom to marry — which now includes the inability to access many federal marriage benefits.

Conservative Costa Rican lawmakers are getting a lesson in the importance of reading the fine print. They were mortified last week after realizing that they may have accidentally approved language making same-sex unions legal when they passed a piece of legislation.

Immigration in America has always maintained the importance of keeping the nuclear family together, but what happens when the tradition of marriage is changing in America to include gay couples? Is there room for a provision in immigration reform to include an immigrant couple's rights to marriage equality?

Pat Robertson is wondering if Justice Anthony Kennedy, who wrote the majority opinion on the case striking down a key section of the Defense of Marriage Act, may have been influenced by his sneaky gay clerks.

The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the New York Daily News, AM New York, Newsday... all the major newspapers distributed in the nation's largest city devoted serious front-page real estate to coverage of the Supreme Court's decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act.
So you'd expect the New York Post, on a day when there were no innocent runners to accuse of being terrorists, to devout at least some front-page space to the ruling, right?

Speaking to the North Carolina Bar Association in Asheville, N.C., on Friday morning, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia further discussed his opinions on marriage equality, the death penalty, abortions and more. It was quickly apparent that, unlike the rest of America, Scalia's thoughts on these so-called moral issues haven't changed in his 27 years on the court.

“With landmark Supreme Court rulings on marriage expected to be released any day now, it’s more urgent than ever to showcase the powerful voices of conservatives who support marriage for same-sex couples,” the campaign manager of Young Conservatives for the Freedom to Marry said. “[We now boast] 65 accomplished leaders in Republican and right-of-center circles who are diverse in their geography, religious affiliation, sexual orientation, and more."