6 same-sex couples in Hawaii sue following civil unions veto

Posted on Jul 29, 2010 at 03:43 pm

Six same-sex couples in Hawaii are filing a lawsuit Thursday asking for the same rights as married couples, three weeks after Gov. Linda Lingle vetoed a civil unions measure for same-sex couples.

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Margaret Marshall, author of Mass. marriage equality decision, to retire

Posted on Jul 22, 2010 at 09:00 am

Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall, who led the state's highest court as it reshaped the Western legal world with its historic ruling approving the freedom to marry in Massachusetts, announced Wednesday morning that she would retire.

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Domestic partnership signature case back in Washington court

Posted on Jul 21, 2010 at 02:30 pm

Anti-gay opponents of the state's expanded domestic partnership law are going back to court to try to block the release of names of people who wanted the law overturned.

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Hey, America, stop changing the marriage equality goalposts

Posted on Jul 19, 2010 at 10:26 am

Marriage equality has seen more ups and downs than a soccer game, because America's right wing keeps changing the goalposts.

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New Hampshire maintains strong momentum for “Summer for Marriage”

Posted on Jul 16, 2010 at 01:54 pm

After a strong start in Maine, New Hampshire celebrates its support for the freedom to marry on the next leg of the “Summer for Marriage” tour.

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250 million people worldwide now live in jurisdictions with the freedom to marry

Posted on Jul 16, 2010 at 10:00 am

Although the past year has been frustrating to liberals and libertarians on many levels, one exception is in the increasing willingness of governments around the world to recognize the freedom to marry, as Argentina determined to do on Wednesday.

There are now about 250 million people worldwide living in jurisdictions which provide for marriage equality, as this colorful chart helps demonstrate.

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Sen. John Kerry: Tauro ruling on DOMA should stand

Posted on Jul 15, 2010 at 02:00 pm

Freedom to Marry Voice for Equality, Senator Kerry: "Congress made a horrible mistake passing DOMA in 1996, and we’ve lived with the destruction and pain it has caused for the last 14 years. Now it’s time—long past time—to make DOMA history once and for all."

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Koppelman: The so-called Defense of Marriage Act’s Achilles heel

Posted on Jul 14, 2010 at 02:39 pm

Andrew Koppelman discusses how the recent Massachusetts federal court finding that DOMA violates the Constitution's equal protection clause could be accepted by the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Freedom to Marry kicks off Summer for Marriage tour

Posted on Jul 14, 2010 at 10:14 am

Freedom to Marry's Summer for Marriage tour begins today. With our local, state, and national partners, we've planned pro-marriage events across the country in July and August.

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States rule

Posted on Jul 14, 2010 at 07:30 am

If you believe the courts offer the best route for getting rid of bans on the freedom to marry, then you should be saying “I-told-you-so.” In Boston last Thursday, a district court judge overturned part of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), declaring unconstitutional its ban on federal recognition of marriages of same-sex couples that are legal at the state level.

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