Gay Marriage at the Supreme Court: A ‘Real Couple’ Behind Prop 8 Challenge
At the center of the Supreme Court’s preeminent case of the term — the one that holds the potential for redefining marriage in America — are a couple whose chief attribute is how conventional they strive to be. Read More »
Bill Clinton: It’s Time to Overturn DOMA
Former President Bill Clinton calls for the so-called Defense of Marriage Act to be overturned. Read More »
Opposition to Same-Sex Marriage Increasingly Isolated, Pollsters Say
With the rapid shift in public opinion toward same-sexmarriage, opposition to changing marriage laws increasingly has become limited to a few slices of the electorate, according to an analysis of polling data by leading Republican and Democratic pollsters. Read More »
Opposition to Same-Sex Marriage Narrow and Concentrated, Study Finds
Exit polls and other surveys from last year’s election suggest that resistance to same-sex marriage is shrinking and mainly concentrated among certain segments of the population: older people, white evangelical Christians and non-college-educated whites. Read More »
Evolution of Gay Marriage: Obama Administration is on the Right Side of History
The federal government's challenge of the constitutionality of California's voter-initiated gay-marriage ban is a welcome development in the Obama administration's evolving view on marriage equality. Read More »
Same-Sex Marriage and the Long Arc of History
Whatever the Supreme Court ultimately rules, the arc of American history is bending, and it is bending toward justice. Read More »
For Same-Sex Military Couples, a Battle on the Home Front
Major Shannon McLaughlin, her wife Casey and their twins face hardship because DOMA prevents the military from treating their family equal to straight military families. Read More »
Suze Orman Op-ed: Gay Americans pay more taxes for fewer rights
EDITORIAL: The social and civil discrimination that persists as long as our federal government does not recognize same-sex marriage is inexcusable. Add in the financial discrimination gay and lesbian couples face and the current policy becomes all the more indefensible. Read More »
PFLAG National submits amicus brief with Neubecker family voice
PFLAG National submits amicus brief with family voice: Local Neubecker family represents PFLAG National Read More »
WATCH: Nicolle Wallace discusses Republican support for marriage
Nicolle Wallace, former communications chief for President George W. Bush and senior advisor to the McCain-Palin campaign in 2008, appeared on MSNBC's Morning Joe on March 4, 2013. Read More »
Gay Marriage Key to Flourishing R.I. Economy
Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee says "Everyone, regardless of his or her sexual orientation, should have the freedom to marry the person he or she loves. This is a matter of civil rights and basic fairness. But it is also an economic-development issue." Read More »
VIDEO: President Obama addresses support for overturning Prop 8 in Supreme Court brief
VIDEO: President Obama addresses support for overturning Prop 8 in Supreme Court brief Read More »
CNN: Obama Administration Supports the Freedom to Marry in California
CNN Newsroom with Carol Costello discusses the Obama administration filing an amicus brief in support of marriage for same-sex couples in California. (Air date: March 1, 2013) Read More »
Obama Administration Urges Supreme Court To Strike Down California Anti-Gay Marriage Ban
The Obama administration asked the Supreme Court Thursday to declare that it was unconstitutional for California to pass an amendment in 2008 excluding same-sex couples from marriage. Read More »
Poll: California support of gay marriage at 61 percent
A record 61 percent of Californians now approve of allowing same-sex couples to marry, according to a poll released Thursday. Read More »
House Dems to Urge Supreme Court to Strike Down DOMA
House Democrats are circulating a legal brief that will argue against the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act before the Supreme Court. Read More »
Nearly 300 Employers Tell Supreme Court To Dump DOMA
Nearly 300 employers — from private businesses to cities to law firms and professional organizations — filed a brief with the Supreme Court Wednesday urging the court to hold that the Defense of Marriage Act's federal definition of marriage be found unconstitutional. Read More »
Dozens of Big U.S. Companies to Back Gay Marriage
Scores of corporations will file a Supreme Court brief favoring gay marriage later this week. Signatories will include Apple, Facebook, Intel, and Morgan Stanley. Read More »
Photos: Suze Orman, RI Gov. Chafee and Married Couples Discuss ‘The Cost of Marriage Inequality’
Economic, business experts and couples joined Orman & Chafee to discuss the economic harms of DOMA and marriage inequality Read More »
Suze Orman and Gov. Lincoln Chafee Discuss the Cost of DOMA on MSNBC Live
This morning, CNBC financial expert Suze Orman moderated a panel discussion at New York University about the high cost of marriage inequality and the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, which prohibits federal respect for legal marriages between same-sex couples. Read More »