More than 75 influential Republicans have signed a legal brief in support of same-sex marriage, as the GOP divide over the issue widens in advance of a major Supreme Court ruling.
More than 300 Republican lawmakers, operatives and consultants called for the Supreme Court to recognize gay marriage nationwide.
I like to think I’m a pretty professional person, most of the time. I didn’t plan to break down on national television last week. But as I sat in a studio at CNN, mere blocks from the steps of the Supreme Court, watching a monitor as the ruling on gay marriage unfolded, the cameras panning to excited, emotional families for whom I know this meant so much, I just couldn’t help it. In that moment, I was human. It wasn’t because, as some of my conservative colleagues have cynically suggested, I’ve suddenly abandoned conservatism. For one ...
His boyfriends have been “welcomed with open arms” at family events, and his mother has told him she will not involve herself again in anti-gay marriage campaigns. Matt said that conservative congressmen have approached his dad to thank him – his relationship with his son had helped them change their own views on LGBT issues. Matt said he’d love to go into the details of the conversations he’s had with his father on those issues but that he can’t. “There are opinions that my father privately holds that are different from his polit ...
Now? They’re almost silent. “I personally have deep convictions about my children having a financially stable country that they can live in,” Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) said in an interview. “I want my daughters to have the opportunities that I had, and that’s what concerns me. That’s what keeps me up awake at night, not worrying about who’s sleeping with who.” ; The group’s Executive Director R. Clarke Cooper said that while the three party leaders got flak for doing the events, ...
As goes Ohio (and Tennessee, Michigan and Kentucky), so goes the nation. At least that’s the expectation when, later this spring, the U.S. Supreme Court considers four consolidated lawsuits in which same-sex couples ask the high court finally to determine whether government has the right to categorically restrict gay equal access to civil marriage. Increasingly, Americans are arriving at the same conclusion: It doesn’t. When the court last considered the question two years ago — striking k...
One hundred thirty-one Republicans signed an amicus brief submitted to the Supreme Court on Thursday arguing that marriage is a fundamental right that should not be denied to gay and lesbian Americans. That is nearly double the number of Republicans who had publicly signed on to the amicus brief earlier this week , indicating a growing groundswell of support among conservatives who recognize the philosophic consistency of supporting the freedom to marry. Call them pro-freedom Republicans. ...
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The first sitting Republican senator to publicly support gay marriage, is beginning to feel the political backlash from social conservatives.
This weekend, the gay son of Rep. Glenn Thompson, R-Pa., got married. A few days earlier, his father voted against the Defense of Marriage Act.