by admin | Jan 16, 2015 | Equality, LGBTQIA+, News
The LGBTQ community and its allies cheered earlier this month when the United States Supreme Court announced that it would review the freedom to marry in 2015. Reports Adam Polaski on the Freedom to Marry blog, “Today, January 16, the United States Supreme Court...
by admin | Jun 30, 2014 | Equality, News, Women's Rights
Last week, the United States Supreme Court struck down a Massachusetts “buffer zone” law that previously required pro-life activists to remain 35 feet from the entrances of abortion and family planning clinics like Planned Parenthood. According to the Supreme Court,...
by admin | Jul 17, 2013 | Articles, News
The elation of many Americans over the strike down of DOMA and California’s Proposition 8 has allowed the news of the Voting Rights Act’s legislative setback to be somewhat neglected by the media. The joyous momentum towards human equality with DOMA and Prop 8’s...
by admin | Jun 28, 2013 | Articles, News, Power LGBT
“The Supreme Court struck down a key part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act on Wednesday and declared that same-sex couples who are legally married deserve equal rights to the benefits under federal law that go to all other married couples,” according to The Los...
by admin | Jun 14, 2013 | Articles, News, Power LGBT
In 2008, California voters passed a measure that would make same-sex marriage illegal. Now infamous, the measure was called “Proposition 8,” and the challenge to it, Hollingsworth v. Perry, has now made it all the way to the Supreme Court, which heard oral arguments...
