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Rick Jacobs of Courage Campaign discusses the California Prop 8 Trial in terms of his own past and recounts the experience of blogging live from the courtroom where the trial took place in January. Jacobs: "But in order to succeed fully, to propel the nation where it's headed anyway, we need to tell the story of the trial and we need to tell our own stories. We need to testify."
Read MoreFederal workers may use sick leave or funeral leave in cases of ailing or deceased domestic partners starting July 14, the Office of Personnel Management said Monday. Unlike other recent changes to federal personnel policies that apply only to same-sex partners, the new orders also apply to opposite-sex domestic partners.
Read MoreFreedom to Marry's Director of Public Engagement, Thalia Zepatos, comments on a new report by New York University professor Patrick J. Egan, Ph.D., underscoring the importance of public education and personal conversations outside of heated political battles in increasing support for the freedom to marry.
Read MoreA federal judge who will decide the constitutionality of California's ban on the freedom to marry wants lawyers during closing arguments Wednesday to discuss the meaning of "choice" in sexual orientation and a possible finding that Proposition 8 attempted to "enforce private morality."
Read MoreRepublican Gov. Linda Lingle of Hawaii has until June 21 to announce whether she will veto the only pending civil unions legislation in the nation. Lingle, in the final months of her second and last term, faces a momentous decision that carries political and legal implications.
Read MoreTed Olson recently told the law students gathered on a spring evening in the luxe D.C. offices of his firm, Gibson, Dunn and Cruthcher, that the California Prop 8 case "is the most compelling, emotionally moving, important case that I have been involved in in my entire life." Result: Standing O. Another jury persuaded. Olson will try to repeat the performance Wednesday in a federal courthouse in San Francisco when he presents closing arguments in a potentially groundbreaking trial in which he and his political odd-couple partner David Boies are asking a federal judge to overturn Prop 8, which their suit says violates the U.S. Constitution's due process and equal protection clauses.
Read MoreOn top of his previous statements in support of marriage equality, with six months left in his four-year term, Illinois state Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias signed an executive order on Sunday June 13, 2010 extending family-leave benefits to gay and lesbian employees in domestic partnerships.
Read MoreFrank Rich discusses the Prop 8 trial in California: "Gays are far from the only Americans still facing discrimination, but as [David] Boies said when I interviewed him about the Prop 8 case last week, the ban on the freedom to marry 'is the last area in which the state is taking an active role in enforcing discrimination.'”
Read MoreRight Wing Watch notes that in addition to distributing flyers urging people to vote against every official up for re-election who supported marriage equality in DC, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is pouring money into campaigns around the country - including in the District - to punish pro-equality elected officials.
Read MoreThe Rev. John A. Buehrens (a Freedom to Marry Voice for Equality) serves as a guest blogger on Steven Levingston's "Political Bookworm". He discusses the fact, both here and in his new book, “A House for Hope: The Promise of Progressive Religion in the 21st Century,” written with theology professor Rebecca Ann Parker, that while some observers see religion and conservatism as inextricably connected, religion in America actually has a progressive, liberal history.
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