Tag Archives: Defense of Marriage Act

Equality as a Cigarette

As we evaluate what happened in Maine as marriage equality, via Question 1, went down with a similar margin as is did in California with Proposition 8, a vivid memory from over thirty years ago comes to mind, in the way a locust comes to a field of corn.

Some Perspective on the DOJ and DADT and DOMA

It’s frustrating to realize that we are having issues regarding civil rights in our third century of existence as a country; we, whose ancestors left England, and many other countries for that matter, for freedom.

Slowly… Slowly

Slowly, the awakening is beginning that each person, no matter how they are identified in the little boxes on most forms, has the right to all the freedoms promised in our United States Constitution.

A Speech for Some of Us

A Letter to President Obama: “Your silence is injuring our gay youth every day it continues. Your daily inaction is another pound of weight of intolerance and neglect on their necks.”

What’s Good for the Goose…

Let’s see things as they are for a change. We are culturally a bigotted and judgmental people on the whole. The good news is that we are slowly recognizing it and the damage it is causing. We are changing.

Dear Mr. and Mrs. America

Dear Mr. America and Miss Ciudadana,

As a representative of the State, I am sorry to inform you that your application for a marriage license has been deemed invalid by the Vital Statistics Bureau because you do not meet the criteria for marriage in this state.

President to President Regarding DOMA

In his role as President of the Human Rights Campaign, Joe Solmonese’s letter to President Barack Obama, eloquently addresses the impact of inaction, as well as action, by President Obama and his administration with regard to the Department of Justice’s Letter of Support for the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).

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