CNBC Host Suze Orman, RI Gov. Chafee, and Other Leaders Discuss “The Cost of Marriage Inequality”
New York Times bestselling author and CNBC Host Suze Orman will moderate a discussion at New York University on the economic harms of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and marriage inequality. Read More »
Evan Wolfson discusses bipartisan support for marriage on MSNBC Live
Respect for Marriage Coalition Co-Chair and Freedom to Marry President Evan Wolfson appeared on MSNBC Live with Thomas Roberts on February 20, 2013 to discuss the Coalition's new ad campaign featuring bipartisan voices expressing support for marriage equality. Read More »
TV Ad Featuring Republican & Democratic Administration Officials Begins Airing Nationally Today
Respect for Marriage Coalition Launches National Ad Campaign Featuring President Obama, Fmr. VP Dick Cheney, Fmr. First Lady Laura Bush & Fmr. Defense Secretary Colin Powell in Support of Marriage Equality Read More »
First Marriage Poll of 2013 Shows Growing Bipartisan Majority Support Marriage for Same-Sex Couples
The Respect for Marriage Coalition today released a memo from Anzalone Liszt Grove Research summarizing key findings from the first public opinion poll of 2013 on marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples. The poll found that a growing bipartisan majority of registered voters support marriage rights. Read More »
Illinois Senate Votes to Back Gay Marriage
With a Valentine’s Day vote, the Illinois Senate approved a bill on Thursday that would legalize same-sex marriage, inching the home state of President Obama closer to becoming the 10th in the nation, plus the District of Columbia, to allow gay couples the right to wed. Read More »
Nibbling Around the Edges Until DOMA Falls
Column by Jonathan Capehart: "As long as the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) remains law, there will never be fairness and equal protection under the law." Read More »
A Law That Adds to Gay Military Widows’ Grief
Tracy Johnson, a staff sergeant in the North Carolina National Guard, shares her story of how the Defense of Marriage Act made losing her wife who was killed while in action in Afghanistan. Read More »
A Doubly Trying Tax Season for Same-Sex Couples
For Colette Hayward and Margaret Selby, the problem is this: Maryland recognizes their 2009 marriage, but the federal government does not. Read More »
End Homophobia in Professional Sports
As leaders for millions of young people across the globe, athletes have the ability to eliminate prejudice from our sport and live up to the incredible privilege we enjoy. Read More »
How Americans Perceive Same-Sex Marriage in a Changing World
American attitudes about the freedom to marry are changing fueled by strong support among young people. Read More »
‘What’s Right is Right’: Widowed Lesbian Pushes for Equal Military Benefits
Staff Sargent Tracy Johnson's wife Donna Johnson was killed in action in Afghanistan. Now, Tracy is fighting the Defense of Marriage Act which prohibits the same-sex spouses of service members from receiving protections and benefits usually given to the surviving spouse. Read More »
LGBT Groups Ask Unions, Civil Rights Groups For Marriage Campaign Help
Originally formed to repeal DOMA in Congress, a coalition of LGBT rights organizations, unions and other civil rights groups is going to be fighting to “secur[e] the freedom to marry nationwide.” Read More »
Gay Marriage a Question of Justice
Mayors Julián Castro, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and Christopher Cabaldon write about why they support the freedom to marry for all couples. Read More »
House Dems Intercede on Behalf of N.Y. Widow Against DOMA
House Democrats are yet again interceding on behalf of litigation challenging the Defense of Marriage Act — this time as one of 15 parties expected to file legal briefs before an appellate court in a case involving a lesbian New York widower. Read More »
Survey: 7 out of 10 Con Law Profs Think DOMA Is Unconstitutional
Eighty-seven percent of constitutional law professors back marriage for same-sex couples, and 7 out of 10 believe the federal Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional, but only a slight majority of 54% think the federal Constitution requires states to recognize same-sex marriages. Read More »
Gaming Company Says DOMA is Bad for Businesses
Not only do Electronic Arts executives believe that the Defense of Marriage Act should be deemed unconstitutional, but they also know that striking down the law would simply make operations run a lot smoother. Read More »
Calif. Congressional Democrats Back Marriage Equality for DNC Platform
The majority of California’s Democratic Congress members announced Thursday that they had signed a letter urging the party’s Platform Drafting Committee to adopt a plank supporting marriage equality at the convention in September. Read More »
Edith Windsor, Octogenarian Lesbian Widow: Take My DOMA Case to the Supreme Court!
Edith Windsor, the octogenarian lesbian widow who successfully sued the federal government for over chariging her $363,000 in estate taxes, wants to take her case to the Supreme Court. Read More »
BREAKING: Boehner appeals DOMA cases to Supreme Court
House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) attorneys on Friday formally appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court an appeals court decision determining the Defense of Marriage Act was unconstitutional. Read More »
BREAKING: DOMA’s Federal Definition of Marriage Unconstitutional, Federal Appeals Court Rules
Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act -- the federal definition of "marriage" and "spouse" -- is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court in Boston ruled today. Read More »