This morning, I launched my campaign for Massachusetts Attorney General. Iām the first announced candidate in the race and a first-time candidate so I know I have my work cut out for me over the next 13 months. But the conversation … [Read more...]
New Jersey Marriage Equality Advocates Are Heading Back to Court
Advocates for same-sex marriage in New Jersey are heading back to court on Wednesday in an effort to invalidate New Jersey's discriminatory heterosexuals-only marriage law. New Jersey doesn't allow same-sex couples to marry, but rather … [Read more...]
MassEquality Nowhere Near Done
No, we're not all set here in Massachusetts on LGBTQ issues, including marriage equality. A decade after Goodridge, MassEquality's Executive Director, Kara Suffredini, is still working a set of big bills. She came on over at Left Ahead … [Read more...]
Republican Senatorial Candidates From Massachusetts Debate DOMA
The three Massachusetts Republicans vying for the Bay State's open U.S. Senate seat held their first debate on Wednesday night. Candidates Mike Sullivan, Dan Winslow and Gabriel Gomez were asked to give their views on two marriage-related … [Read more...]
Scott Brown Supports DOMA But Won’t Admit It
Recently my family participated in Credo Mobile's campaign "Tell Congress: Fight to pass the Respect for Marriage Act and repeal the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act". In response, we received the following letter from Senator … [Read more...]
Mitt Romney Insults a Vietnam Veteran with his Heterosexist Assumptions
At a campaign stop at a diner in New Hampshire, presidential candidate Mitt Romney made a bee-line towards a man wearing a Vietnam Veteran cap and "sidled up next to him". Although gays have always served in the military, apparently it … [Read more...]
Obama drops defense of DOMA in NY and CT cases
The Obama administration has announced that it will refuse to defend the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act in lawsuits filed in Connecticut and New York. Why now, rather than previously? Here's DOJ's explanation: In the … [Read more...]
View on DADT from MassEquality
Marriage equality advocates would like to think the DADT repeal would foreshadow one for the Defense of Marriage ACT (DOMA). While Suffredini sees who can serve in the military and who can marry as closely linked in this issue and … [Read more...]
On Asking Experts, Part One, Or, Do Democrats Really Understand Their LBGT Problem?
"We were liberated not only empty-handed but left in the power of a people who resented our emancipation as an act of unjust punishment to them. They were therefore armed with a motive for doing everything in their power to render our … [Read more...]
Prop 8 Preview: The “Basis” Is The Thing
We have a long discussion available, here and here, that explains exactly what happened in Massachusetts a few weeks ago, but the short version is something like this: a series of Plaintiffs, including private persons and the State of … [Read more...]