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• Defying Judges Order, White House Instructs Personnel Agency to Obstruct Health Benefits to Spouse of Lesbian Employee

  
  -Towleroad News- [#gay] — Authority: 752
  Back in February I posted about a ruling by a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals judge regarding the offering of health benefits to the spouse of a lesbian employee in a decision it appeared would directly challenge DOMA. Michelangelo Signorile points out some troubling activity on this case which was just written ...
  3 days ago

• Obama admin reportedly blocks lesbian from getting health benefits after judge ordered it

  
  AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — Authority: 156
  The Obama administrations Office of Personnel Management, run by an openly gay man, no less, reportedly intervened to stop a lesbian government official from getting health insurance, after a court had already ordered it to happen. Obamas OPM told Blue Cross not to provide benefits to the woman just as it was about ...
  3 days ago

• Obama Waffles on Traditional Marriage: Vows to Repeal DOMA

  
  Obama Daily Waffles — Authority: 107
  Will the real Barack Obama please stand up? In November of 2008, ABC News reported a pro-traditional marriage statement by then candidate Barack Obama. Speaking to MTV viewers, Senator Obama said: "I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. Im not in favor of gay marriage."  In true wafflishesh style, last ...
  4 days ago

• Republican “Purity” Test?

  
  U.S. Common Sense — Authority: 415
  Have you heard about this? The RNC has released the “ RNC Resolution on Financial Support of Candidates ,” where they list ten key points that candidates wishing to obtain party funding must support at least 80% of the time. Where does the Republican leadership come up with this nonsense? Talk about trying to win ...
  5 days ago

• Republicans Consider "Purity Resolution" and DOMA Support

  
  Rod 2.0:Beta — Authority: 616
  The Republican National Committee is considering a "purity" resolution to threaten moderates who might support health care reform and marriage equality or repealing the Defense of Marriage Act. Adam Nagourney at The New York Times reports the resolution appeals to...
  6 days ago

• stylebyte: The Ho-Down Low-Down

  
  Lost In A Supermarket — Authority: 483
  1. Adam Kimmel 2. Chloe 3. D&G 4. Karl 5. Chanel 6. Yiorgos Eleftheriades 7. Doma 8. Nina Peter 9. Matthew Williamson 10. Chloe 11. Erica Weiner 12. Yiorgos Eleftheriades 13. Chloe 14. Topshop 15. ACB As we are trying to humbly ignore cowboy boots making a come-back, we are not ...
  6 days ago

• New Rules for GOP Candidates: You Must Support DOMA

  
  Queerty — Authority: 714
  Is it so bad the GOP wants to make sure its members stick to certain principles? After all, we call on Democrats to do things like "keep their campaign promises." Except Republicans now want to ensure members of the RNC stick to a true conservative principle: maintaining the Defense of Marriage Act. CONTINUED » ...
  6 days ago

• Republican Purity and Conservatism

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 684
  It appears that the Republican National Committee is working on a set of principles that Republican candidates have to adhere to in order to receive funding and support from the RNC. There are ten principles listed, and the candidates have to adhere to at least seven of these principles “as identified by the ...
  1 week ago

• Will DoMA case change the constitutional standard for sex/o discrimination?

  
  hunter of justice — Authority: 462
      The issues are now joined in Gill v. OPM, the GLAD case challenging the constitutionality of DoMA.  Unlike the Perry case in California, the decision in Gill will have no effect on state marriage laws.  The plaintiffs are same-sex couples or surviving spouses in Massachusetts, and are arguing that the ...
  1 week ago

• Momentum for DOMA Crashes to a Halt. Will Anyone Get Out And Push?

  
  That's My Congress — Authority: 478
  In the immediate wake of the National Equality March, some momentum for equal rights legislation was apparent. But that momentum seems to have come crashing to a halt. Senator Carl Levin had promised in October to hold a hearing on reform to the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell law, a law that codifies military [...]
  1 week ago

• Federal Judge Declares DOMA Unconstitutional

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 133
       Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has found a key provision of the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional.       Judge Stephen Reinhardt issued a ruling Wednesday in the case of In the Matter of Brad Levenson in which he declared that a key provision of the Defense of ...
  1 week ago

• Not the End of DOMA (Reprise)

  
  People For the American Way Blog blogs — Authority: 463
  This week, there was a new development in a California case where a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in February ruled the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional. The Los Angeles Times reports the new development: In a legal end-run around the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, a ...
  1 week ago

• weekly linkage

  
  Ask Nicola — Authority: 468
  Just three things today because Ive been too busy to futz about in the creaking bowels of the interwebs. But they are good things, very good things. Very, very fine idea here from @mdash: social PayPal to support artists. I cant wait to see where this goes. In the Los Angeles Times , notice of legal blow to ...
  1 week ago

• On the Marriage Protect Act, an Erratum

  
  A Good Choice . . . — Authority: 139
  This is an erratum to a previous post, Ron Paul’s Position on a Federal Marriage Amendment I had once said that it was the one good thing that George W. Bush did during his presidency. The Marriage Protection Act simply restricts the jurisdiction of the federal courts against ...
  1 week ago

• News: Mary Cheney, Lutherans, DOMA, Mariah Carey, Detroit

  
  -Towleroad News- [#gay] — Authority: 752
  Federal judge rules that gay couple denied benefits should receive compensation : "U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Stephen Reinhardt deemed thedenial of healthcare and other benefits to the spouse of federal publicdefender Brad Levenson to be a violation of the Constitutionsguarantee of due process and ...
  1 week ago

• Damir Doma Archive on Oki-Ni

  
  SLAMXHYPE — Authority: 642
  Damir Doma has made a huge impression during his short tenure as designer of his self named label. To pay homage to his work to date and as a preview to what Damir has prepared for Spring/Summer 2010m, Oki-Ni have created this quite impressive archive of his work. “Damir’s taste levels and attention to detail ...
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• Critical thinking hope

  
  My Point Exactly — Authority: 132
  Will Phillips, a 10-year-old in West Fork, Alabama, gives me hope that some of our kids are learning the critical thinking skills that are utterly key to the survival of American ideals as expressed in the Constitution. He’s refusing to say the Pledge of Allegiance because, as he told the Arkansas Times, “I’ve ...
  1 week ago

• HR 2517 – The Domestic Partner Benefits and Obligations Act Passes House Committe

  
  Back2Stonewall.com — Authority: 139
  The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Wednesday voted 23-12 to pass the Domestic Partner Benefits and Obligations Act, which would extend benefits to same-sex partners of federal government workers.
  1 week ago

• Did Texas Gay Marriage Ban Accidentally Ban Straight Marriage, Too? [Whoops]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 863
  A Houston lawyer says her state made a "massive mistake" in their Constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage (you know, the one that was supposed to protect straight marriage) and now everyone in Texas is divorced. McClatchy reports that Barbara Ann Radnofsky is a Democratic candidate for attorney general ...
  1 week ago

• Gay friendly Rep. Jackie Speier plays it straight on the Colbert Report

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  California representative Jackie Speier (D-San Mateo) went toe to toe with Stephen Colbert last night in his “Better Know a District” segment where she defended the rights of gays and lesbians to marry, and then enjoyed a bit of skateboarding at the end. Rep. Speier is a staunch advocate for gay rights, supporting ...
  1 week ago

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