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Mike Huckabee appeared on Rosie O'Donnell's Sirius radio show Saturday to respond to his remarks regarding gay parents, adoption, and foster parents. You may recall that Huckabee recently gave an interview to a paper at the College of New Jersey in which he insulted gays who want to parent, telling them "children are not puppies."
Read MoreSupporters of an initiative campaign announced last week to tax the earnings of couples making more than $400,000 annually are committed to making sure the state's domestic partners are taxed at the same rate as married couples.
Read MoreJim Daly of Focus on the Family: "There's a lot of people in the U.S. [who] basically come to the conclusion that this [the freedom to marry] is something between two adults. I will continue to defend traditional marriage, but I'm not going to demean human beings for the process."
Read MoreThe debate over the freedom to marry has always focused on issues of religion, justice and morality, but voters in states that have rejected marriage equality may start rethinking their position in the years ahead because of a less lofty consideration — profit.
Read MoreA proposed high-earners initiative in Washington state would cut the state property tax by 20 percent, end the business-and-occupation tax for small businesses, and start an income tax for couples earning more than $400,000 a year and individuals earning more than $200,000. Unfortunately, the tax would punish many domestic partner couples.
Read MoreOhio's leading U.S. Senate candidates support the freedom to marry. Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner (a Freedom to Marry Voice for Equality) and Lieutenant Governor Lee Fisher are vying for the Senate seat now held by Republican George Voinovich, who is retiring. A May 4 Democratic primary will decide who'll battle Republican Rob Portman in November.
Read MoreJust one week after Californians filed their state taxes, the California State Assembly approved Assembly Joint Resolution 29 with bipartisan support in a vote of 59-5. The measure, authored by Assembly member Mike Feuer (D-Los Angeles) and sponsored by Equality California, urges the IRS to change a policy that now requires many same-sex couples to file two federal tax returns and pay unfairly high taxes because the federal government fails to recognize how California applies its community property laws to same-sex couples.
Read MoreFor the first time in the history of the United States Congress, the Committee on Standards of Official Conduct, otherwise known as the ethics panel, was going to have gay elected officials and senior staffers who received marriage certificates and were married in states where it is legal, disclose their spousal financial information the same way heterosexual married staffers do. That was until both sides of the freedom to marry issue started complaining.
Read MoreA newly-released study reveals that more and more people in the Houston area support gay rights -- specifically, the right for same sex couples to adopt children.
Read MoreChildren need loving homes. Prejudice shouldn’t stand in the way of that. So it is welcome news that a state judge in Arkansas has struck down a pernicious 2008 state law that barred qualified same-sex couples and other unmarried couples living together from serving as adoptive or foster parents.
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