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How Pam Spaulding And Other Gay Inc Bloggers May Have Already Swayed Outcome Of Midterm Elections

We knew there was gonna be a touch of fallout from our post Minus Gay Inc. White Privilege Delusions: Is Obama Wrong To Appeal DOMA and Don’t Ask Don’t Tell? We just didn’t realize how much. For starters, strangely Pam Spaulding of Pam’s House Blend decided that it was some personal attack aimed specifically at [...]

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Minus Gay Inc. White Privilege Delusions: Is Obama Wrong To Appeal DOMA and Don’t Ask Don’t Tell?

We found ourselves at an interesting crossroads last week when we heard that the Department Of Justice (DOJ) was appealing both DOMA and Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. Like, is this cat serious? Is he really doing this, after all the fighting we’ve done on his behalf? Is he really betraying us like this? Of course [...]

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DOMA And DADT: A Legal Analysis On Latest Haps

From SDGLN.com: “May you live in interesting times” is as much a curse as a warning. Turbulence, upheaval and revolution – these lead to difficult lives, implies the supposedly Chinese curse. But they are also the defining characteristics of great social change. There are protests and arrests, laws passed and challenged, pickets and bullhorns, hate [...]

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DOJ Files Against Massachusetts Gay Marriage Ruling

From Reuters: The Obama administration on Tuesday decided to appeal a judge’s ruling that prevented the U.S. government from banning same-sex marriages. The Obama administration filed a notice of appeal with the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts in support of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act that barred gay marriages, even though [...]

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DOMA Case Gets Stay; DOJ Now Has Til Oct To Decide Next Move

On Tuesday U.S. District Court Judge Joseph L. Tauro entered an amended judgment and order in Gill v. Office of Personnel Management granting,that “the judgment in this action is stayed pending the disposition of any appeal filed by the Defendants.” The Department Of Justice (DOJ) now has until October 18, to make up their minds [...]

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DOJ Still Mum On DOMA Cases

According to Keen News Service it’s been 40 days since U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Tauro ruled—in two cases—that the federal benefits provision in the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional. But the Department of Justice has still not indicated whether it intends to appeal those decisions to the 1st Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. [...]

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