The Human Rights Campaign – the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization – is condemning Republican leadership and top GOP presidential candidates for participating in the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit, taking place in Washington, DC over the next several days.
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Tab jumps to at least $1.5 million in taxpayer money to defend discrimination
House Speaker John Boehner originally entered into a contract with private attorneys to defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court with a cap of legal fees at $500,000. A new contract that was revealed today increases that amount to $1.5 million.
Discriminatory ban on gays and lesbians in the military officially ends tomorrow
Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese issued the following statement on tomorrow’s historic end of the discriminatory “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) law that has, for the past 17 years, prohibited qualified gay and lesbian Americans from serving in the armed forces.
HRC Praises Senate Hearing on Repeal of DOMA
The Human Rights Campaign – the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization – praised yesterday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Respect for Marriage Act – a bill that would repeal the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act that denies federal recognition to legally married same-sex couples.
HRC Statement on White House Support for Respect for Marriage Act
Today at a White House news conference, Press Secretary Jay Carney announced President Obama’s support for the Respect for Marriage Act, a bill to repeal the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act that denies federal recognition to legally married same-sex couples.
HRC Statement on Announcement of Senate DOMA Hearing
Today the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization, praised Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy’s announcement that the panel would soon hold a hearing on the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act.
National Faith Leaders for LGBT Equality in Washington
Hundreds of faith leaders from all 50 states, including the largest number ever of heads of Christian denominations and inter-faith religious leaders, will lobby members of Congress at the Human Rights Campaign Clergy Call for Justice and Equality 2011 in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, May 24, to support legislation to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, to ban employment discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and protect students from discrimination and bullying.
Self-identified Christians’ views in line with majority in favoring protections for LGBT Americans
The majority of Christian Americans oppose the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act, favor protecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people from discrimination, and support anti-bullying laws according to new polling released today by the Human Rights Campaign in partnership with Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research.
HRC Statement on King & Spalding’s Decision to Drop DOMA Defense
Upon news that the law firm of King & Spalding has filed a motion to withdraw from defense of the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act.
HRC Campaign to Inform Clients, Recruits that King & Spalding Defends Discrimination
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest civil rights organization dedicated to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) equality, yesterday announced a campaign to educate clients and potential recruits about King & Spalding’s decision to voluntarily take up the legal defense of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) on behalf of Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives.
U.S. Taxpayers Spending $520 Per Hour Defending Discrimination
In order to defend discrimination by any means necessary, House Republican leaders have contracted with the law firm King & Spalding at the rate of $520 an hour to argue that they’re right to deny recognition to legally married couples, according to the contract made public today.
