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Court Date Set for DOMA Challenge


BOSTON DOMA UPDATE X390 (GETTY) | ADVOCATE.COM

Oral arguments on the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), in the case of Gill v. Office of Personnel Management will begin on Thursday, May 6, according to a statement posted on the Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders website.

The hearing will address whether DOMA is constitutional, six years after the first same-sex couples in the country began marrying in Massachusetts, resulting in GLAD’s groundbreaking marriage case, Goodridge v. Department of Public Health.

Mary L. Bonauto, GLAD’s Civil Rights Project Director, will argue the case on behalf of seven married same-sex couples and three widowers before U.S. District Judge Joseph L. Tauro.

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Reader Comments
  • Name: roy_B
    Date posted: 4/12/2010 10:21:38 AM
    Hometown: new york citry

    Comment:

    Its about time but you know that the rethuglians are going to fight it none stop.

  • Name: Paul
    Date posted: 4/10/2010 8:16:40 AM
    Hometown: Detroit

    Comment:

    "To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget, whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself -- that was the ultimate subtlety; consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink." This is from Orwell's "Nineteen-Eightyfour"...doesn't this sound familiar? Can the right wing read?

  • Name: Actually
    Date posted: 4/9/2010 9:31:13 PM
    Hometown: Coral Springs

    Comment:

    Not necessarily. You are counting on the fact that Justice Kennedy will be against us on this one. We really cannot be sure of that. He has a pretty good record of standing up for us so it's a mixed deal.

  • Name: Mark
    Date posted: 4/9/2010 7:50:26 PM
    Hometown: Wappingers Falls

    Comment:

    The Supreme Court is currently 5-4 against us and will remain that way with the new appointment. We need one of the 5 radical right wing activist judges to retire or pass away and be replaced by a constitutional fair-minded judge.

  • Name: teri
    Date posted: 4/9/2010 7:46:28 PM
    Hometown: portland

    Comment:

    Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) glaad.org

  • Name: Paschal
    Date posted: 4/9/2010 6:28:33 PM
    Hometown: Sligo, Ireland

    Comment:

    CHim, GLAD stands for the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders while GLAAD stands for Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders. Google them both.

  • Name: CHim
    Date posted: 4/9/2010 6:20:10 PM
    Hometown: jax

    Comment:

    Isn't the group called "GLAAD"? not GLAD

  • Name: Ken
    Date posted: 4/9/2010 5:29:48 PM
    Hometown: Colorado

    Comment:

    Let's get it started!!! 21st century, Everyone should have their own right to anyone they want, not married to the law or religion especially United State of America. Pioneer of the Human Right.



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