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Scores Of Republicans Sign Legal Brief Supporting Gay Marriage Ahead Of Supreme Court Arguments

Submitted by ONE Community on February 26, 2013 - 12:52pm
Scores Of Republicans Sign Legal Brief Supporting Gay Marriage Ahead Of Supreme Court Arguments

At least 75 top Republicans have signed a legal brief to be submitted to the Supreme Court this week, arguing that gay marriage is a constitutional right, according to The New York Times, which got a copy of the document.

The court is preparing to take on the subject of gay marriage late next month, when it will hear oral arguments on the constitutionality of California's gay marriage ban, Proposition 8, and the Defense of Marriage Act. It is expected to render a decision in early summer.

The signers of the document are mostly out-of-office Republicans or former top officials, including former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, former Rep. Deborah Pryce (R-Ohio), former Massachusetts Govs. William Weld and Jane Swift, and former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman. Read more »

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North Carolina governor: Gay marriage ban 'hurts our brand’

Submitted by ONE Community on May 9, 2012 - 9:48am
North Carolina governor: Gay marriage ban 'hurts our brand’

North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue (D) said Tuesday the proposed gay marriage ban is “bad for business” and “hurts our brand.”

Perdue told MSNBC’s “Daily Rundown” host Chuck Todd that she considers her state’s vote on Tuesday “our Rosa Parks moment in North Carolina because it’s about taking away civil rights.”

“This is a big day for North Carolina. Chuck, this hurts our brand,” Perdue said. “Our state has been known around America and around the world as a progressive leader, as an inviting state, the hub of business and opportunity. This is bad for business.”

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President Obama pressed on gay marriage

Submitted by ONE Community on May 7, 2012 - 9:44am
President Obama pressed on gay marriage

Vice President Joe Biden finally said Sunday what gay marriage supporters have been waiting for President Barack Obama to say — but his office’s immediate effort to walk back those comments provided another convoluted step in the White House’s evolution on the issue that’s already maddening the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. Read more »

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Some Methodist clergy defy gay marriage ban

Submitted by ONE Community on June 20, 2011 - 8:05am

MILWAUKEE - A growing number of pastors in the United Methodist Church say they're no longer willing to obey a church rule that prohibits them from officiating at same-sex marriages, despite the potential threat of being disciplined or dismissed from the church.

In some parts of the U.S., Methodist pastors have been marrying same-sex couples or conducting blessing ceremonies for same-sex unions for years with little fanfare and no backlash from the denomination. Calls to overturn the rule have become increasingly vocal in recent weeks, ratcheting up the pressure for the Methodist church to join other mainline Protestant denominations that have become more accepting of openly gay leaders. Read more »

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Gay marriage before nation's largest appeals court

Submitted by ONE Community on August 5, 2010 - 4:26pm

Experts say judge's ruling will be tough to overturn

SAN FRANCISCO — The judge who overturned California's gay marriage ban was unrelenting in his repudiation of the measure, saying such laws are mean-spirited and unconstitutional to the core.

It was a harsh yet carefully worded ruling that some experts said would be tough to overturn as the landmark legal debate goes to the appeals court and then possibly to the U.S. Supreme Court. Others say the power of conservative judges on those courts could be enough to thwart gay marriage and stop the movement in its tracks.

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Olson surprises many conservatives by seeking to overturn gay-marriage ban

Submitted by ONE Community on June 15, 2010 - 12:35pm
By Robert Barnes Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, June 14, 2010 Cocktails had been served on the terrace, the ubiquitous Washington buffet of tenderloin and salmon consumed, and the gay law students settled in to hear from the famed legal mind who is leading the battle to make sure they have the right to marry whomever they want, wherever in the United States of America they live. But first, an introduction: The assembled were reminded of Theodore B. Olson's sterling conservative credentials; about his loyal service in President Ronald Reagan's Justice Department; that he was President George W.
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Proposition 8 trial turns its attention to children

Submitted by ONE Community on January 22, 2010 - 2:44pm
A witness for opponents of the gay marriage ban says children of same-sex couples are not more likely to be maladjusted.
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Texas' gay marriage ban may have banned all marriages

Submitted by ONE Community on November 19, 2009 - 1:12pm

AUSTIN — Texans: Are you really married?

Maybe not.

Barbara Ann Radnofsky, a Houston lawyer and Democratic candidate for attorney general, says that a 22-word clause in a 2005 constitutional amendment designed to ban gay marriages erroneously endangers the legal status of Read more »all marriages in the state.

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Judge refuses to dismiss gay marriage ban suit

Submitted by ONE Community on October 17, 2009 - 6:55pm
He asks lawyers to show how gay unions pose threat to traditional ones Associated Press updated 6:31 p.m. MT, Wed., Oct . 14, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge challenged the backers of California's voter-enacted ban on same-sex marriage Wednesday to explain how allowing gay couples to wed threatens conventional unions, a demand that prompted their lawyer to acknowledge he did not know. The unusual exchange between U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn Walker and Charles Cooper, a lawyer for the group that sponsored Proposition 8, came during a hearing on a lawsuit challenging the measure as discriminatory under the U.S.
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US lawyers defend letter of gay marriage ban

Submitted by ONE Community on September 22, 2009 - 2:02pm
By Jonathan Saltzman and Martin Finucane Globe Staff / September 19, 2009Justice Department lawyers are reluctantly defending a law that bars the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages, making their legal arguments in a Boston court while pointing out that the Obama administration opposes the measure.
Government attorneys said in a brief filed yesterday in US District Court that the administration believes the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which bars the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages, is d
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