Kentucky
In 2004, as discriminatory constitutional amendments were pushed in numerous states throughout the nation, Kentucky citizens voted for an anti-marriage and anti-relationship recognition constitutional amendment which passed and wrote discrimination into Kentucky's constitution. State advocacy groups are working to both repeal such discrimination and end the exclusion of same-sex couples and their families from marriage.
Status: Anti-Relationship Recognition Constitutional Amendment
Groups Actively Working on Marriage
Kentucky Fairness Alliance: Kentucky's central statewide lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights and advocacy organization
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Freedom to Serve, Freedom to Marry highlights marriage discrimination against military families
Freedom to Marry and Servicemembers Legal Defense Network have teamed up this week to launch a new, national persuasion campaign - Freedom to Serve, Freedom to Marry. The campaign will illustrate how the Defense of Marriage Act negatively impacts military families.
Respect for Marriage Act gains three new cosponsors
This week, two new members of the U.S. House of Representatives and one new senator signed on as cosponsors of the Respect for Marriage Act.
Field update: Moving marriage forward in Maine
Freedom to Marry's Online Campaign Manager Cameron Tolle gives an update Maine, where he's spending several days on the ground working with Mainers United for Marriage-- the campaign to win marriage at the ballot this November.
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Latino Support for the Freedom to Marry
Recent public opinion data show that Latinos – especially Latino Catholics – widely favor the freedom to marry, both nationwide and in key states.
American Medical Association Makes Case for Ending Marriage Discrimination
With New York State now the sixth – and largest – state to end the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage, the American Medical Association (AMA) adopted a policy position declaring that excluding same-sex couples from marriage is “discriminatory” and reaffirming existing AMA policy to support relationship recognition of gay and lesbian couples as a means of addressing health disparities faced by those couples and their families.
Williams Institute Experts Comment on Department of Justice DOMA Decision
Williams Institute experts present important facts about how many couples would be helped if DOMA is repealed.