Eric Hartley: Still waiting for ‘the real thing’
Posted on Jan 31, 2011 at 11:30 am
While many gay or lesbian couples from Maryland got married in Washington, D.C., after that city legalized same-sex marriage last year, Barry Kessler and David Hankey have waited. The Arnold couple was a bit wary of a D.C. marriage. The Maryland attorney general says the state can recognize out-of-state marriages, but what if it didn't for some reason?
But the real reason they're waiting is less legal and more profound: They want "the real thing," as Hankey put it.
Suits on Marriage Equality may force Administration to take a Stand
Posted on Jan 31, 2011 at 09:30 am
President Obama has balanced on a political tightrope for two years over the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, the contentious 1996 law barring federal recognition of marriages of same-sex couples.
Now, two new federal lawsuits threaten to snap that rope out from under him.
Bob Kerr: Life gets better when a daughter gets married
Posted on Jan 28, 2011 at 12:00 pm
Bob Kerr reports on Tony and Sylvia DeLuca will go to the State House to testify in support of the bill legalizing marriage equality in Rhode Island.
Kerr: "They attended the wedding of their daughter Luisa to her partner Brenda Harvey last June in Provincetown, Mass., where marriage is as it should be — a matter of love and commitment between two people."
RFK Jr. for N.Y. Marriage Equality
Posted on Jan 28, 2011 at 09:30 am
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. joined the fight for marriage equality in a video released Thursday for the Human Rights Campaign’s New Yorkers for Marriage Equality series.
How anti-marriage amendments keep America in the past
Posted on Jan 27, 2011 at 02:30 pm
Josh Bell comments on a new Human Rights Campaign report about increasing support for marriage equality in polls across the country and the sad fact that five states with majority support for the freedom to marry are saddled with anti-marriage amendments passed years ago.
Senate Democrats in Iowa vote down push for ban on freedom to marry
Posted on Jan 27, 2011 at 01:00 pm
A motion by Iowa state Sen. Kent Sorenson to suspend the Senate’s rules to allow a vote on a constitutional ban on the freedom to marry was defeated early Thursday morning on a party-line vote.
House marriage equality bill in Maryland gets 58 sponsors
Posted on Jan 27, 2011 at 11:00 am
Maryland House Majority Leader Kumar Barve today submitted the House plan to legalize marriage for same-sex couples -- a proposal backed by 58 delegates who have signed on as co-sponsors.
Marriage equality arguments: This is about rights, speakers say
Posted on Jan 26, 2011 at 05:00 pm
A passionate debate took place at a legislative meeting in Iowa on Monday about a proposal that could ultimately eliminate the freedom to marry in Iowa.
“Nothing says family like the word marriage”
Posted on Jan 26, 2011 at 03:30 pm
For Maryland couple Chris Williams and Juan McCoy, family definitely comes first.
But as a gay couple, Chris and Juan can't get married in their home state.
Marriage equality supporters urge California Supreme Court to reject federal appeals court request
Posted on Jan 26, 2011 at 02:00 pm
An attorney for same-sex couples hoping to overturn Proposition 8 in federal court urged the California Supreme Court on Tuesday to reject a federal appeals court request to determine whether state law gives initiative sponsors legal authority to defend ballot measures.