A new Washington Post-ABC poll shows support for gay marriage equality at a new high with 58% of Americans stating they support marriage equality. It’s no surprise that people between 18-29 years old support marriage equality by an enormous margin: 81% of people in that age group favor it. The real surprise is that the… Continue Reading
Category Archives: DOMA
Athletes and Other Sports Figures File Supreme Court Brief Supporting Gay Marriage Rights
A group of professional athletes and figures in pro sports have sent a friend of the court brief to the Supreme Court supporting marriage equality in a case next week challenging California’s Proposition 8. It’s no surprise that the brief was initiated by Brendon Ayanbadejo of the Baltimore Ravens and Chris Kluwe of the Minnesota Vikings. Both… Continue Reading
Florida Lawmakers Defeat Domestic Partnership Bill
Florida legislators have tabled a bill that would have created a domestic-partnership registry for same-sex (and opposite-sex) couples. State Sen. Eleanor Sobel, (D-Hollywood) introduced SB 196, the Families First Act, to the Florida Senate Committee on Children, Families and Elder Affairs. It would have granted a few of the legal privileges of marriage: hospital and… Continue Reading
A Bill to Grant Benefits to Same Sex Military Partners
It was only a matter of time before the repeal of the ill-conceived Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy would run headlong into the Defense of Marriage Act (“DOMA”). Charlie Morgan, a chief warrant officer in the New Hampshire Army National Guard, passed away last week after a five-year battle with breast cancer, leaving behind her… Continue Reading
Wrap up of 2012
As you may know, I write this blog because I love educating those in our community about how to protect their families. Why then haven’t I written since September? Because in September both of my parents fell in and both died in November. Given the travel between hospitals in California and Minnesota and handling client… Continue Reading
Supreme Court Set Date to hear DOMA Cases
The Supreme Court says it will hear two days’ worth of arguments over laws affecting gay marriage during the last week of March. Justices on Monday announced they will hear arguments in Hollingsworth v. Perry on March 26 and United States v. Windsor on March 27. The first case involves California’s constitutional amendment that… Continue Reading
Will the Supreme Court Soon Hear Challenges to DOMA?
DOMA Cases Begin to Advance to Supreme Court The Supreme Court’s electronic docket, as noted by the SCOTUS blog, that California’s famous “Proposition 8″ may be the first case in which the court will review the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). It has a long way to go as this only… Continue Reading
Dead Father to Gay Son: Marry a Woman or Lose Inheritance
Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Robert Mandelbaum is trying to overturn his father’s will that says he must marry the surrogate mother of his child. However, Robert is already married to a man, Johnathan O’Donnell, reports the Daily Mail. Frank Mandelbaum, Robert’s late father who died in 2007, had set aside a $180,000 trust for his… Continue Reading
DOMA Held Unconsitutional By ANOTHER Federal Court
Judge Vanessa Bryant, a G.W. Bush appointee to the District Court of Connecticut, struck down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act as unconsitutional in the case of Petersen v. Office of Personnel Management. The case was brought by the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) in November 2010 and involved the right to federal… Continue Reading