Equality On Trial

Equality news round-up: New DOMA poll shows majority opposition, and more

February 19, 2013

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By Scottie Thomaston

- The Associated Press discusses the “electoral risk” for Republicans who vote for LGBT rights.

- The Washington Blade has a new poll on DOMA that suggests 59% of Americans oppose Section 3 of DOMA (denying federal benefits to legally married same-sex couples.)

- Illinois residents back marriage equality 50-29%, says a new poll.

- Three labor unions in Delaware have endorsed marriage equality.

- Chris Geidner compares the Catholic bishops’ amicus briefs in Loving and the Prop 8 and DOMA cases.

- The New York Times has a piece on same-sex binational couples forced to leave the United States.

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