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As major companies, technology leaders, faith leaders, and child welfare advocates warn Texas lawmakers to stop the attacks on LGBT Texans and their families, HB 4105 & 3567 move forward
On Tuesday, the Texas House of Representatives is expected to vote on HB 4105, a last ditch effort to shamefully try to stop marriage equality in the state as the Supreme Court considers a case… Read the rest

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The United States Supreme Court heard oral argument today in the landmark Tennessee marriage equality cases and cases from three other states that could bring the freedom to marry to every state across the country when the Court rules by the end of June.
The Tennessee plaintiffs are Dr. Valeria Tanco and Dr. Sophy Jesty; Army Reserve Sergeant First Class Ijpe DeKoe and Thom Kostura;… Read the rest

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One in six married same-sex couples live in states that don’t recognize their marriage.

The number of legally married same-sex couples in the United States has tripled in the last year, according to a new poll released today by Gallup that was co-authored by Gary J. Gates, Blachford-Cooper Distinguished Scholar and Research Director at the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law, and Frank Newport,… Read the rest

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Yesterday, the Florida Senate voted down a bill (HB 7111) that would have given adoption agencies in the state a license to discriminate against gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender parents. Nevertheless, similar bills are still pending in Michigan and Alabama. These laws would even prevent an aunt from adopting her niece if the child’s mother passed away just because the aunt happened to be a… Read the rest

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HRC urges Senators to vote against Inhofe amendment
Today, the Human Rights Campaign condemned an amendment introduced in the Senate as a last ditch effort to undermine marriage equality. Introduced by Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK), the anti-LGBT amendment would endorse the idea that businesses and organizations should be allowed to use taxpayer funds to discriminate against married same-sex couples.
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Today U.S. District Judge Daniel D. Crabtree ruled in favor of the freedom to marry in Kansas.
Marc Solomon, national campaign director of Freedom to Marry and author of Winning Marriage, released the following statement:
“Yet another judge – this time in Kansas – has found marriage discrimination to be unconstitutional, joining the nearly unanimous, bipartisan wave of pro-freedom to marry rulings in recent months.… Read the rest

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Today, a federal district court in Alaska struck down that state’s ban on same-sex marriage as unconstitutional.
In Alaska, there are nearly 1,230 cohabiting same-sex marriage couples, of whom an estimated 23% are raising more than 560 children in their homes.
 
Williams Institute research also suggests that 614 of these couples will marry in the first 3 years, generating $8 million in spending in the… Read the rest

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Today, a federal district court in Alaska struck down that state’s ban on same-sex marriage as unconstitutional.
In Alaska, there are nearly 1,230 cohabiting same-sex marriage couples, of whom an estimated 23% are raising more than 560 children in their homes.
 
Williams Institute research also suggests that 614 of these couples will marry in the first 3 years, generating $8 million in spending in the… Read the rest

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HRC, Freedom to Marry Ask Attorney General Holder to Ensure Federal Respect for Marriages in 3 More States
Today the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and Freedom to Marry, on behalf of the Respect for Marriage Coalition, sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder asking that the Department of Justice act to ensure federal respect for the marriages of same-sex couples in Arkansas, Indiana, and… Read the rest

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On Tuesday U.S. District Court Judge Richard L. Young ruled in Bowling v. Pence that Indiana’s law prohibiting the recognition of same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions is unconstitutional. The decision was stayed, pending an appeal.  Judge Young previously struck down the state’s marriage ban in a ruling on a case known as Baskin v. Bogan, which was consolidated with two other cases for an… Read the rest

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Equality winning streak continues as Colorado becomes the latest state to see its ban on marriage equality struck down as unconstitutional
Today Adams County District Court Judge C. Scott Crabtree ruled against Colorado’s constitutional amendment banning marriage equality, making the Centennial State the latest to see such a ban struck down in court since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its historic marriage rulings last… Read the rest

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Today a Republican-appointed federal judge ruled that Kentucky’s constitutional amendment banning same-sex couples from the freedom to marry is unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge John G. Heyburn II was appointed by President George H. W. Bush in 1992, on the recommendation of current Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Evan Wolfson, founder and president of Freedom to Marry, released the following statement:
“Today a Republican-appointed federal judge… Read the rest

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