US Senate to Address Gay Marriage

[w8liftinglady]

http://blog.outtakeonline.com/2011/11/us-senate-to-address-gay-marriage.html

On Thursday the Respect for Marriage Act is scheduled
in the US Senate for mark-up. This is the act that would
put an end to the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). It's
amazing that DOMA has been found unconstitutional
numerous times in Federal Court & yet our LGBT families
continue to be discriminated against by this dated act.
We have a chance in the Senate & less of a chance in the
the House. Last week the GLAD (Gay & Lesbian Advocates
& Defenders) filed a brief to the First Circuit Court of Appeal
in Boston defending an earlier court ruling finding the
federal "Defense of Marriage Act" unconstitutional. GLAD’s
brief was in answer to an appeal brief filed by BLAG
(Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group of the U.S. House of Reps)
defending the law. Mary Bonauto, Civil Rights Director
for GLAD stated, "BLAG doesn’t seem to understand that
our plaintiffs are already married. They keep arguing against
the right to marry & raising issues about why same-gender
couples should be denied government marriage licenses. But
the federal government doesn’t issue marriage licenses; states
do & Massachusetts did. As a result, BLAG fails to justify why
the Congress singled out one group of married people & denied
them alone the same federal rights & responsibilities available
to all other married people." Updates to Come...:)