By EnviroEditor, on April 9th, 2013%
As part of an ongoing effort in support of comprehensive immigration reform that includes lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) immigrants and their families, the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBT civil rights organization, has released a statement of principles entitled Comprehensive & Inclusive Immigration Reform: Nine Problems Deserving Solutions.
There are an estimated
Read More… Human Rights Campaign Makes Comprehensive & Inclusive Immigration Reform Organizational Priority
By EnviroEditor, on April 5th, 2013%
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, celebrated the announcements by Sens. Tom Carper, Democrat of Delaware, and Mark Kirk, Republican of Illinois, that they support marriage equality. Kirk is the second current Republican Senator to support marriage for gay and lesbian couples and with
Read More… 50th Sitting Senator, Republican Mark Kirk, Endorses Marriage Equality
By EnviroEditor, on March 28th, 2013%
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, yesterday released a modified red version of its logo in anticipation of arguments at the Supreme Court on two marriage equality cases. The logo, which ordinarily features a yellow equal sign in front of a blue background,
Read More… Human Rights Campaign Turns the Internet Red for Marriage Equality
By EnviroEditor, on March 25th, 2013%
The latest ABC News/Washington Post pollshows a record high of 58 percent of registered voters nationwide supporting marriage equality. Additionally, voters overwhelmingly say that the U.S. Constitution should be the basis for deciding if gay couples can marry rather than leaving the decision to individual states (64 to 33 percent).
“There can be no
Read More… Americans Support Marriage Equality by Historic Margin in New Poll
By EnviroEditor, on March 24th, 2013%
In a Washington Post op-ed column, President Bill Clinton who signed the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act into law in 1996, called on the Supreme Court to overturn the ban on federal recognition of legally married same-sex couples, saying the law was “incompatible with our Constitution.” The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in
Read More… President Clinton Urges End to DOMA in WaPo Op-Ed
By EnviroEditor, on March 21st, 2013%
National Organization for Marriage (NOM) Board Chairman John Eastman referred to families with adopted children as just “second best” in remarkshe made to the Associated Press. Eastman made the remarks in reference to Chief Justice John Roberts, who has adopted two children with his wife. Eastman, who argues that families headed by a man
Read More… Myth versus Fact: Anti-Gay Opposition Can’t Get Its Story Straight on Adoption
By EnviroEditor, on March 17th, 2013%
National Organization for Marriage president Brian Brown is touting an honorary degree he’s received from a non-existent university. On Monday, Brown – fresh off a jaunt to Paris in an attempt to take NOM’s anti-LGBT message abroad – tweetedthat he was “honored to receive honorary doctorate this weekend in Memphis from American Urban U.
Read More… NOM President Brian Brown Touts Honorary Degree – From Non-Existent University
By EnviroEditor, on March 13th, 2013%
More than 300 leading American companies and employers have joined “friend of the court” briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court in either one or both landmark marriage equality cases.
One brief—to be filed in the challenge to California’s Proposition 8, Hollingsworth v. Perry—is signed by companies including Apple, Facebook, Xerox, Verizon, Cisco and Levi
Read More… Leading U.S. Companies to Supreme Court: End Marriage Discrimination
By EnviroEditor, on March 10th, 2013%
On February 28th, the U.S. House passed the Senate-approved version of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) that includes important protections for LGBT people. Last May the House passed their own non-LGBT inclusive version in a highly partisan vote but that bill died at the end of the last Congress. Today’s victory marks a
Read More… House Passes LGBT-Inclusive Violence Against Women Act
By EnviroEditor, on March 4th, 2013%
The Obama Administration made history by filing a brief at the Supreme Court arguing for the first time on behalf of the U.S. Government that a law denying loving and committed gay and lesbian couples the ability to marry is unconstitutional. Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli filed the amicus curiae brief in the Perry case
Read More… Obama Administration Makes History at Supreme Court Arguing for Marriage Equality
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