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Obama Won't Defend DOMA: Instant Reactions
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsPresident Barack Obama has decided that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional and has ordered Attorney General Eric Holder to stop defending it in federal court. Until now, the Department of Justice has defended Section 3 of DOMA in court challenges. This section states that "the word 'marriage' means only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and the word 'spouse' refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or wife." Two DOMA challenges are currently pending in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In a letter to Congress ...
Barbara Bush Comes Out for Gay Marriage, and Twitter (Mostly) Applauds [VIDEO]
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsBarbara Bush -- the twin daughter of former President George W. Bush -- has caused quite the stir today. In a video from the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights organization, the brunette twin announces her support for the New Yorkers for Marriage Equality campaign. Watch: Just 22 seconds long, that video has sure got a lot of people talking. On Twitter, the overwhelming reaction is positive, with people cheering Barbara for breaking ranks with her father, who was famously opposed to gay marriage. .bbpBox32451867472564224 ...
Young Barbara Bush Backs Gay Marriage
By Lisa Flam - AOL NewsFormer President George W. Bush's daughter Barbara is the latest relative of a prominent Republican to support gay marriage. In May, her mother, Laura Bush, gave this answer to a question about gay marriage: "When couples are committed to each other and love each other, that they ought to have, I think, the same sort of rights that everyone has." John McCain's daughter, Meghan, supports gay marriage, though her father's against it, and the lesbian daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney supports it too. Gay rights leaders have seized on the generational split as a sign that support for ...
Daughter of George W. Bush Supports Same-Sex Marriage
By Carla Baranauckas - Politics DailyBarbara Bush, one of the twin daughters of President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, is making public her support of gay marriage, a stand that is at odds with her father's position on gay marriage. In a video released Monday, Barbara Bush says: "I am Barbara Bush, and I am a New Yorker for marriage equality. New York is about fairness and equality. And everyone should have the right to marry the person that they love." The video was produced by an advocacy group called the Human Rights Campaign as part of the New Yorkers for Marriage Equality campaign. Like many conservatives, Barbara ...
End of Military Gay Ban Is Pivotal Moment in History
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Dec. 18) -- The Senate's 65-31 vote to end the ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in the military was more than historic. It was a long time coming. But for the men and women whose lives and careers were touched for so many years by the ban, it was mostly personal. For Grethe Cammermeyer, the Vietnam combat nurse who came out as a lesbian in 1989 and whose struggle to stay in the military made her famous, the Senate vote brought tears. It's "the relief of finally seeing that we can serve with dignity and with integrity and that people no longer have to lie," she said. For ...
National Coming Out Day 2010: News Roundup
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Oct. 11) -- Move over Columbus Day; today is National Coming Out Day. Established in 1988, the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights awareness day is being celebrating on college campuses and in communities across the country. This year, the LGBT community and straight supporters -- through Human Rights Campaign support under the National Coming Out Project -- are approaching the national day of civil awareness in light of recent tragic instances of sexuality-related bullying (such as the Tyler Clementi suicide) and other allegedly anti-gay attacks. Despite its name, National ...
Domestic-Partner Benefits for Federal Workers Trickle In: Progress or Procrastination?
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailySlowly, crumb by crumb, federal employees in same-sex relationships are picking up benefits -- and they gained a few more this week, though nothing to shout about. "Last year," President Barack Obama said in a statement Tuesday announcing minor advances in rights for federal workers in gay and lesbian relationships, "I issued a presidential memorandum that instructed the Office of Personnel Management and the secretary of state to extend certain available benefits they had identified to gay and lesbian federal employees and their families under their respective jurisdictions. Among those ...
Forty Years After Stonewall, That Lavender Hour Uncertain
By James Daubs - Politics DailyMonday night in the East Room of the White House, President Obama meets with gay and lesbian leaders to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. It represents the first time Stonewall has ever been officially recognized in the White House. Press secretary Robert Gibbs has said that no substantive announcements are expected at the reception. (The president will not, in other words, officially legalize same-sex marriage in all 50 states; being a president and not, alas, a Supreme Leader, he has no authority to do so. Nor is he likely to apologize for his supposed foot-dragging on ...
Gay Group Attacks McCain, Film at 11
By Greg McNeilly - Politics DailyThe Democratic Party's lapdog, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a leading LGBT federal lobbying group, is attacking John McCain and helping him secure his political base as Obama's base remains fractured and disillusioned. The attack video released by HRC is a boring 2 minute narration of HRC's spin on John McCain's record on this particular special interest group's agenda. ...
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