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House GOP Appeals DOMA Decision in California

Friday, February 24th, 2012

On Wednesday a federal court struck down Section 3 of DOMA as unconstitutional. Today GOP House Speaker John Boehner ordered that ruling appealed.

In court papers, a group of congressional Republicans defending the federal gay marriage ban revealed they are appealing the ruling to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The 9th Circuit will become the second federal appeals court to now consider the legality of the Defense of Marriage Act, a 16-year-old law known as DOMA.

The Obama administration has sided with Golinski in the case, arguing that DOMA is unconstitutional. Republicans, led by House Speaker John Boehner, have jumped in to defend the law, filing the notice of appeal on Friday. With cases unfolding in several federal courts, many experts predict the issue will wind up in the U.S. Supreme Court.

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MD: Another Republican Delegate Announces Support for Marriage Equality Bill

Thursday, February 16th, 2012

In a surprising move, Del. Wade Kach (R-MD) announced today he will support marriage equality legislation expected to come before the state’s House of Delegates tomorrow. Kach is the second Republican in the chamber to endorse the measure — one Senate Republican, Allan Kittleman, is a co-sponsor of the bill.

The Baltimore Sun notes the move is “stunning” since Kach voted against the bill as recently as Monday night, in a committee vote, and had co-sponsored a different measure that would define marriage as between a man and a woman.

Full Story from Think Progress

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Is the GOP Due for a Reckoning on Marriage Equality?

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012

Midday Monday, Chris Gregoire, the governor of Washington, signed same-sex marriage in the state into law. Should she have waited twelve hours or so, until it was officially Valentine’s Day? In some ways, that would have been appropriate–one of the legends associated with the Saint concerns his willingness to officiate at unjustly forbidden weddings.

More than that, this was a bill built on love in all its varieties, as well as on a general affection for justice. But maybe people have waited too long already (couples won’t be able to show up at city halls with flowers tomorrow anyway: the law goes into effect on June 7th). Nor would it have helped if the New Jersey Assembly, which passed a gay-marriage bill on Monday, had waited another day: Governor Chris Christie has said that he will veto, and it doesn’t seem like paper hearts and doilies, or even boxes of chocolate, will sway him. Why isn’t he romantic?

And why isn’t gay marriage conservative? One would think that, at a certain point, there would be a real confrontation within the Republican Party about this–one that goes beyond its libertarian wing’s impatience with the subject. Do you want children to grow up in a home with married parents? Do you want adults who live together to make a binding commitment, one that helps weave them into their community?

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Tags: gop, marriage equality, reckoning

Is Gay Marriage Losing Its Effect as a Wedge Issue for the GOP?

Friday, February 10th, 2012

Eight years is an aeon in politics. Witness the waning potency of the gay-marriage issue.

During the 2004 campaign, Republican strategists put gay marriage on referendum ballots in key swing states, as a “wedge” issue to unnerve Democrats and gin up the conservative base for President George W. Bush. The Massachusetts high court had just ruled for legalization, and hostility toward the concept was the centrist position in America.

This is no longer true. Granted, social conservatives voiced anger Tuesday when, for the first time ever, a federal court of appeals declared that gay marriage was a constitutional expression of equal rights. But most Americans will shrug and move on. As evidenced by all the polls, tolerance is the new centrism.

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NH: Is the GOP Quietly Backing Away From Marriage Equality Repeal?

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

Republican leaders in the New Hampshire House appear to be distancing themselves from an effort to repeal the state’s gay marriage law.

According to the AP, gay marriage is noticeably absent from the House Republican agenda introduced Thursday.

Republican House Leader D.J. Bettencourt told the AP that gay marriage was not included on the agenda because lawmakers did not need to spend much time on the issue.

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NM: State Representative Introduces Marriage Equality Ban

Saturday, January 28th, 2012

New Mexico State Rep. David Chavez on Tuesday introduced a proposed constitutional amendment which would define marriage as a heterosexual union.

If approved by lawmakers and voters in November, the amendment would bar the state from recognizing gay and lesbian couples with marriage, civil unions and possibly domestic partnerships.

Chavez, a freshman Republican representative, is an attorney from Los Lunas.

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WA: GOP Attorney General Candidate Supports Marriage Equality, Draws Ire

Saturday, January 21st, 2012

Republican attorney-general candidate Reagan Dunn is facing a backlash from some GOP leaders and activists over his decision to come out in support of gay marriage.

In the last week, Dunn has been disinvited to big Republican dinners in Whatcom and Franklin counties, and faces a new conservative rival in the attorney-general’s race.

“That’s the name of the game. There has been some blow back,” said Dunn, a Metropolitan King County Council member.

Full Story from the Seattle Times

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NY: Four GOP Senators Who Supported Marriage Equality Rewarded With Donations

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

The NYT reports that the New York GOP state Senators who voted to pass marriage equality have been rewarded by donors:

State Senator Roy J. McDonald, a Republican who is a Vietnam veteran from Saratoga County, became a momentary folk hero for many gay people when he blurted out that people who were unhappy with his support for same-sex marriage “can take the job and shove it.” He raised about $447,000 in the six months following the vote, about 27 times more than he had raised in the same period in 2009.

Senator Stephen M. Saland, a Republican lawyer from Poughkeepsie whose decision to support same-sex marriage became clear only when he rose to speak during the vote, raised $425,000. For rank-and-file lawmakers in Albany, those are large sums — both men raised more in the latter half of 2011 than did the Senate majority leader, Dean G. Skelos, a Long Island Republican.

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WA: Second GOP House Member Supports Marriage Equality

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Rep. Glenn Anderson, R-Fall City, is the second House Republican to announce support for legislation that would legalize same sex marriage in the state. Rep. Maureen Walsh, R-Walla Walla, is a co-sponsor of the bill.

The measure already had 50 signatures — enough votes for passage in the House — without Anderson, but he gets the award for what is likely the longest explanation to date for supporting gay marriage.

There’s a duplicate measure in the Senate where the legislation’s fate is more uncertain.

Full Story from The Seattle Times

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Marriage Equality Foes Choose Santorum to Stop Romney

Sunday, January 15th, 2012

Rick Santorum has long drawn the special loathing of supporters of marriage equality for his fierce opposition to the measure, but until recently, he hadn’t had much luck benefitting from the flip side of that: The united support of marriage foes.

Since his Iowa victory, however, he’s begun finally to unite the wing of the Republican Party for whom marriage is a central issue. Former presidential candidate Gary Bauer endorsed Santorum last week, a group of leading social conservatives backed him today, and he just announced the endorsement of one of the highest-profile figures in the marriage wars, Maggie Gallagher, who until recently chaired the National Association for Marriage, the best funded group on its side.

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