SPEAKING OUT! In this video Matt Coles, Director of the ACLU LGBT Project, responds to the California Supreme Court decision upholding Proposition 8 and discusses the ACLU's ongoing battles across the country to fight for the rights we should all have to live our lives the way we choose "without having somebody else's morality imposed on us."
President Barack Obama has nominated federal appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor to become the first Hispanic American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. The choice has so far been embraced by gay rights activists and denounced by Republicans including Rush Limbaugh who called Sotomayor 'a hack' and a 'reverse racist.'
SPEAKING OUT: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and celebs like Cynthia Nixon, Margaret Cho and Melissa Etheridge react to today's California Supreme Court decision to uphold the anti-gay marriage Proposition 8...
Tomorrow morning, billions of shares of Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) stock will be counted on items ranging from board membership to greenhouse gases. The company’s directors oppose virtually all of these resolutions, but it is required to submit them to shareholders nonetheless. For the tenth year in a row, one of these items is a [...]
Ed. Note: This analysis just in from our legal team. Today, the California Supreme Court upheld Proposition 8, which defines marriage in the California constitution to exclude same-sex couples. It also ruled that the thousands of same-sex couples who married before Prop 8 passed are still legally married in California. This decision raises the obvious question: “why [...]
The California Supreme Court ruling brings bitter news: Proposition 8 will stand. While we take some solace that the loving couples who did marry in California will stay married, we are heartbroken. But we won’t back down. Take a look at our new video we created in case this would be the reality we face [...]
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