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Equality news round-up: Democrats’ Pro-LGBT platform ratified, GLAD gears up for DOMA at the Supreme Court
September 5, 2012
By Scottie Thomaston
- Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders (GLAD) is launching a campaign in the run-up to the Supreme Court conference to decide whether they will review challenges to DOMA. This page has a lot of good information on the GLAD cases (Gill and Pedersen).
- In case you missed it last night, two pieces of news broke later than usual: the Democratic Party officially ratified its platform with pro-LGBT language including, for the first time, support of marriage equality; and Prop 8 proponents filed a reply brief at the Supreme Court (the last brief to be filed before the conference.)
- The LGBT Caucus at the Democratic convention reached record numbers.
- Professor Dale Carpenter at The Volokh Conspiracy (a libertarian-leaning legal blog) called attention to an interesting story in Minnesota involving disclosure of a marriage equality supporter’s identity.
- The Connecticut Law Tribune discusses the Connecticut Bar Association’s recent decision to join an amicus brief opposing Section 3 of DOMA.
- Frank Bruni of the New York Times talks about marriage equality.
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Bob | September 5, 2012 at 3:24 pm
wondering how many LGBT'S are republican????????????? I know we're a diverse group,, but who among us would not vote to give Obama another term?????
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Sagesse | September 5, 2012 at 4:17 pm
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AnonyGrl | September 6, 2012 at 8:22 am
There are a number of republican LGBT folks, including the very well known Log Cabin Republicans, who will vote republican. There are less of them than there are democratic LGBT people, I am sure.
The thing is, like many other people, not all of the LGBT community are one issue voters. So while they may not agree with some of the Republican platform, they do with other things in it, strongly enough to not vote Democrat. While we may find that odd, it is what it is, and we have to do our best to understand it, and not disown them, because they ARE working on our issues, from the inside, so I think we should support them there, at least.
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David Henderson | September 7, 2012 at 1:42 pm
In 2008, it was about 30% of LGBT folks voted for McCain. And in 2010, I believe it was a slightly higher number who voted for Republican Representatives and Senators.
Remember that Obama, McCain, Biden, and Palin all agreed in 2008 that marriage should only be between one man and one woman.
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