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 Scott Brown (R-Massachusetts). Sen. Brown clearly supports the discriminatory federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), but tries to change the [...]

Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) declared his support today for the Respect for Marriage Act (RMA, S.598), a bill that would repeal the so-called federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Senator Menendez is the 32nd U.S. Senator so far to co-sponsor the RMA and joins a growing list of senators — currently totaling 12 — who [...]

H/T Blender Shelley.   Jack Rice interviewed Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) on Tuesday about the just-filed Respect for Marriage Act (H.R.3567) that would repeal the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act.  The interview does a great job covering the basics.   I can’t figure out how to embed the audio file, but you can listen here. [...]

Jerry Nadler (D-NY) today filed the “Respect for Families Act”, or DOMA repeal bill.  Significantly, this bill calls for a full repeal.  DOMA has two functional parts, one that prevents the federal government from recognizing marriages between two people of the same sex, and another that allows states to ignore s-s marriages from other states [...]