http://www.alliancealert.org news from the frontlines of the culture war Thu, 24 May 2012 23:12:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/10/glad-argues-one-spouse-at-a-time-rule-applies-to-civil-unions-as-well-as-marriages/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/10/glad-argues-one-spouse-at-a-time-rule-applies-to-civil-unions-as-well-as-marriages/#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:58:02 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=130861 GLAD: In a case involving a man who married in Massachusetts without dissolving his Vermont civil union to a different man, GLAD will argue before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) that the marriage should be considered void. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2012/04/10/glad-argues-one-spouse-at-a-time-rule-applies-to-civil-unions-as-well-as-marriages/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/08/irs-allows-medical-deduction-for-treatment-of-gender-identity-disorder/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/08/irs-allows-medical-deduction-for-treatment-of-gender-identity-disorder/#comments Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:57:47 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=118037 GLAD reports on the IRS "action on decision" in O’Donnabhain v. Commissioner, 134 T.C. 34 (2010) ( T.C. Docket No. 6402-0) ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/11/08/irs-allows-medical-deduction-for-treatment-of-gender-identity-disorder/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/09/glad-lawyers-should-pledge-to-help-homosexual-partners-undermine-child-custody-rights-of-natural-parents/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/09/glad-lawyers-should-pledge-to-help-homosexual-partners-undermine-child-custody-rights-of-natural-parents/#comments Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:26:10 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=113076 New guidelines for same-sex parenting and custody | Keen News Service: In several of these cases, notably Miller v. Jenkins, attorneys from conservative legal organizations such as Liberty Counsel and the Alliance Defense Fund have represented the biological mothers. “They are making an industry of it,” Bonauto noted of the groups. | GLAD: Standards for LGBT Families ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/09/09/glad-lawyers-should-pledge-to-help-homosexual-partners-undermine-child-custody-rights-of-natural-parents/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/29/glad-doj-backs-away-again-from-doma/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/29/glad-doj-backs-away-again-from-doma/#comments Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:08:14 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=99476 GLAD: The Department of Justice followed Wednesday’s withdrawal from two DOMA cases in the Second Circuit, including GLAD’s Pedersen v. OPM by notifying the clerk of the First Circuit that they will also “cease to defend” the two consolidated DOMA cases, Gill v. Office of Personnel Management and Massachusetts v. HHS. The DOJ has not sent a letter to the Congress declining to defend DOMA in toto in the Gill case, so its determination may only apply to the extent the court determines that heightened scrutiny is the proper standard of review for DOMA’s constitutionality. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/29/glad-doj-backs-away-again-from-doma/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/03/glad-takes-a-step-by-step-approach-on-gay-marriage/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/03/glad-takes-a-step-by-step-approach-on-gay-marriage/#comments Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:07:25 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=97030 LA Times: "Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, or GLAD, is arguing that it is unconstitutional to discriminate against gay couples who are already legally married. It hopes its incremental approach will lead to a broader ruling by the Supreme Court." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/03/03/glad-takes-a-step-by-step-approach-on-gay-marriage/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/02/24/justice-department-to-stop-defending-doma-homosexual-groups-respond/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/02/24/justice-department-to-stop-defending-doma-homosexual-groups-respond/#comments Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:03:59 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=96429 Windy City Times: It is possible—just as happened in California—that some other entity might attempt to mount its own defense of DOMA in the pending cases. Last October, U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, filed a motion in the two First Circuit cases, seeking to be named intervenor-defendant. Smith, aided by the right-wing Alliance Defense Fund, said at the time that the Justice Department was providing "no defense at all" for DOMA. He withdrew his motion a few weeks later, without comment. [this report contains a lengthy list of responses from homosexual groups] ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/02/24/justice-department-to-stop-defending-doma-homosexual-groups-respond/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/02/24/blog-of-the-legal-times-doj-wont-defend-defense-of-marriage-act/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/02/24/blog-of-the-legal-times-doj-wont-defend-defense-of-marriage-act/#comments Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:48:17 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=96423 Blog of the Legal Times: "A spokeswoman for Smith said his lawyers would need to review the cases pending in the 2nd Circuit before making any decision to try to intervene. Representing Smith in the 1st Circuit were three lawyers from the conservative Alliance Defense Fund, including senior counsel Brian Raum, and a solo practitioner from Salem, Mass., Philip Moran. A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), to whom Holder addressed a letter explaining the administration’s decision, did not immediately respond to a request for comment." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/02/24/blog-of-the-legal-times-doj-wont-defend-defense-of-marriage-act/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/02/24/glad-lawyer-expects-members-of-congress-to-defend-doma-in-court/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/02/24/glad-lawyer-expects-members-of-congress-to-defend-doma-in-court/#comments Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:44:23 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=96421 TPM: The Alliance Defense Fund, which asked a federal court for permission for Rep. Smith to serve as an intervenor-defendant in the DOMA cases in the past, issued a statement Wednesday that said it "will not waver in its ongoing defense of marriage nationwide." "Either the House of Representatives or the Senate have the legal authority to intervene in pending lawsuits to defend the federal DOMA statute," Senior Legal Counsel Austin R. Nimocks said in a statement. ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/02/24/glad-lawyer-expects-members-of-congress-to-defend-doma-in-court/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/01/04/nh-outside-groups-gird-for-marriage-fight/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/01/04/nh-outside-groups-gird-for-marriage-fight/#comments Tue, 04 Jan 2011 20:49:51 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=89603 Concord Monitor: "The Family Research Council in Washington, D.C., has vowed to do 'whatever it takes' to repeal gay marriage in New Hampshire. Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders in Boston is promising to do 'whatever it takes' to stop them." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2011/01/04/nh-outside-groups-gird-for-marriage-fight/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/11/16/doma-taking-more-hits/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/11/16/doma-taking-more-hits/#comments Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:02:18 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=82375 Edge Boston: "The Defense of Marriage Act faced a two-pronged attack on Nov. 9 as two separate organizations and sets of lawyers, representing different plaintiffs, filed lawsuits in federal court challenging the federal definition of marriage." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/11/16/doma-taking-more-hits/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/11/10/conservatives-defend-doma-amid-more-lawsuits/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/11/10/conservatives-defend-doma-amid-more-lawsuits/#comments Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:26:21 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=81388 Christian Post: "The American Civil Liberties Union and Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders both filed lawsuits Tuesday on behalf of same-sex couples trying to receive federal benefits from their partners. In GLAD's case, the advocate group filed a lawsuit on behalf of five same-sex couples and widowed partner across three states – Connecticut, Vermont and New Hampshire . . . ADF Legal Council [Dale Schowengerdt] explained that GLAD put multiple plaintiffs on the lawsuit because 'their legal arguments are a little bit thin and they focus a lot on the stories of these couples and basically make an emotional appeal.'" ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/11/10/conservatives-defend-doma-amid-more-lawsuits/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/12/texas-lawmaker-seeks-role-in-appeal-of-gay-marriage-ruling/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/12/texas-lawmaker-seeks-role-in-appeal-of-gay-marriage-ruling/#comments Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:02:16 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=76241 Statesman.com: "Tauro has yet to rule on Smith’s motions, filed Oct. 5 by the Alliance Defense Fund, an organization of Christian lawyers active in religious liberty, family and marriage issues." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/10/12/texas-lawmaker-seeks-role-in-appeal-of-gay-marriage-ruling/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/23/acs-convention-panel-video-marriage-equality/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/23/acs-convention-panel-video-marriage-equality/#comments Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:08:24 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=69819 American Constitution Society Convention panel: "On June 18, at the 2010 ACS National Convention, a panel of experts discussed 'Marriage Equality: An Update and Preview.' The panel featured: Christopher Hayes, Washington, D.C. Editor, The Nation, Moderator; Mary Bonauto, Civil Rights Project Director, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders; Brian W. Raum, Senior Counsel, Marriage Litigation Center, Alliance Defense Fund; Therese M. Stewart, Chief Deputy City Attorney, City of San Francisco; Camilla B. Taylor, Senior Staff Attorney, Lambda Legal." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/23/acs-convention-panel-video-marriage-equality/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/20/new-developments-in-glads-doma-challenge/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/20/new-developments-in-glads-doma-challenge/#comments Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:31:36 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=69684 Leonard Link: "One question that immediately began buzzing around the blogosphere was whether the Obama Administration's Justice Department will appeal these rulings. Others are when will the rulings take effect, and do they have any application outside of Massachusetts? Within the past few days, some answers have begun emerging." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/20/new-developments-in-glads-doma-challenge/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/19/ma-amended-judgment-entered-in-glads-doma-challenge/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/19/ma-amended-judgment-entered-in-glads-doma-challenge/#comments Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:47:39 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=69517 San Diego Gay and Lesbian News: "An amended judgment was entered on Aug. 18 in Gill v. Office of Personnel Management, the challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act filed by Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD). Simultaneously, a stay was issued pending any appeal by the government to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. It supersedes a judgment entered by the federal district court on Aug. 12, 2010." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/19/ma-amended-judgment-entered-in-glads-doma-challenge/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/09/david-boies-remarks-at-the-abas-annual-meeting-in-san-francisco-prop-8-ruling/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/09/david-boies-remarks-at-the-abas-annual-meeting-in-san-francisco-prop-8-ruling/#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:56:00 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=68069 Barwatch Bulletin for Sunday, August 8, 2010: "David Boies, who served as lead counsel for Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election challenge, delivered the keynote address at the Opening Assembly on Saturday. Boies is currently serving on the legal team challenging Proposition 8 in California. He discussed the case in his remarks, which addressed challenges to the rule of law . . . '[T]here is only one area in our society in which there continues to be not merely social discrimination, but state-sponsored, state-enforced discrimination against a group of our citizens. And last Wednesday, the federal district court here in the northern district of California took an important step in eliminating that last official discrimination against our gay and lesbian citizens.'" ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/08/09/david-boies-remarks-at-the-abas-annual-meeting-in-san-francisco-prop-8-ruling/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/07/08/u-s-judge-rules-defense-of-marriage-act-unconstitutional/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/07/08/u-s-judge-rules-defense-of-marriage-act-unconstitutional/#comments Thu, 08 Jul 2010 22:26:36 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/07/08/u-s-judge-rules-defense-of-marriage-act-unconstitutional/ ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/07/08/u-s-judge-rules-defense-of-marriage-act-unconstitutional/feed/ 4 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/29/maine-supreme-judicial-court-orders-new-hearing-on-transsexuals-name-change-application/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/29/maine-supreme-judicial-court-orders-new-hearing-on-transsexuals-name-change-application/#comments Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:39:00 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=64580 Leonard Link: "On June 24, the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, ruling on the appeal in In re A.M.B., 2010 ME 54, 2010 WL 2521726, vacated and remanded to the Cumberland County Probate Court a petition by a transsexual man for a name change. Probate Judge Joseph R. Mazziotti had denied the name change petition without a written opinion or any communication of reasons, other than 'judicial discretion.' . . . " ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/29/maine-supreme-judicial-court-orders-new-hearing-on-transsexuals-name-change-application/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/17/gay-marriage-fate-rests-in-courts-of-law-public-opinion/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/17/gay-marriage-fate-rests-in-courts-of-law-public-opinion/#comments Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:10:46 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=63248 Yahoo! News: "'The case in Massachusetts is much more incremental and strategic,' said [Jordan Lorence], a senior counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian legal firm helping to defend Prop. 8. 'It's like a rifle shot. The California case is much more massive in its magnitude. More than a rifle shot, it's like a big bomb.'" ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/17/gay-marriage-fate-rests-in-courts-of-law-public-opinion/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/08/incarcerated-transgender-woman-can-pursue-case-for-medical-care/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/08/incarcerated-transgender-woman-can-pursue-case-for-medical-care/#comments Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:32:25 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/08/incarcerated-transgender-woman-can-pursue-case-for-medical-care/ GLAD: "A U.S. district court judge in Massachusetts has denied the government’s request to dismiss the case of Vanessa Adams, a Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) inmate with gender identity disorder (GID). For years, the BOP denied Ms. Adams treatment for her serious medical condition. As a result, Ms. Adams attempted suicide multiple times when prison doctors failed to provide any treatment. She eventually removed her own genitals. | Complaint | Court Order" ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/06/08/incarcerated-transgender-woman-can-pursue-case-for-medical-care/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/28/glad-files-amended-complaint-in-doma-challenge/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/28/glad-files-amended-complaint-in-doma-challenge/#comments Fri, 28 May 2010 20:53:44 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/28/glad-files-amended-complaint-in-doma-challenge/ GLAD: "GLAD filed an amended complaint this week in our lawsuit challenging Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), Gill v. OPM. The complaint updates the tax overpayments of three of the plaintiff couples due to their inability to file their federal income tax returns under the status 'married filing jointly.' Each couple must instead file as either a single individual or head of household when they have dependent children." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/28/glad-files-amended-complaint-in-doma-challenge/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/07/case-is-made-vs-us-marriage-law-court-hears-gay-group%e2%80%99s-challenge/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/07/case-is-made-vs-us-marriage-law-court-hears-gay-group%e2%80%99s-challenge/#comments Fri, 07 May 2010 14:54:49 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/07/case-is-made-vs-us-marriage-law-court-hears-gay-group%e2%80%99s-challenge/ Boston Globe: "'I think the Obama administration, if they believe the statute is unconstitutional — which it clearly is — does not have a duty to defend it. In fact, they have a duty not to defend it,'’ Shannon P. Minter, legal director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, who took a flight from San Francisco to attend the arguments, said afterward." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/05/07/case-is-made-vs-us-marriage-law-court-hears-gay-group%e2%80%99s-challenge/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/04/15/religious-student-group-case-heads-to-supreme-court/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/04/15/religious-student-group-case-heads-to-supreme-court/#comments Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:37:37 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/wordpress/?p=58090 Pew Forum (RNS): "The case, Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, pits a campus chapter of a Christian legal group against the Hastings College of the Law and its 20-year-old nondiscrimination policy. 'Our main argument is that Christian student groups shouldn't be forced to deny their faith in order to receive equal treatment on campus,' said [Gregory Baylor], senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, which is helping represent the CLS chapter before the high court." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/04/15/religious-student-group-case-heads-to-supreme-court/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/04/06/religion-vs-bias-back-in-supreme-court/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/04/06/religion-vs-bias-back-in-supreme-court/#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:57:16 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/wordpress/?p=57383 Bay Windows ("GLBT Newspaper"): "In Christian Legal v. Martinez, a Christian law students’ group contests a decision by the University of California’s Hastings College of Law, headed currently by acting chancellor Leo Martinez. The case also includes a gay student group, Outlaw, at the same school as a party to the defense . . . 'Like every other student group on Hastings’ campus, it too has a choice,' say GLAD and Lambda. 'It can adhere to Hastings’ general nondiscrimination policy or forego school funding.' The federal district court in San Francisco and the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals agreed with that logic and ruled for the university and Outlaw. Christian Legal, with the aid of the right-wing Alliance Defense Fund, has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. And in agreeing to hear that appeal, at least four justices had to indicate a willingness to consider their arguments." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/04/06/religion-vs-bias-back-in-supreme-court/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/03/02/maine-biology-based-restrooms-called-discrimination/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/03/02/maine-biology-based-restrooms-called-discrimination/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:36:05 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/wordpress/?p=53917 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2010/03/02/maine-biology-based-restrooms-called-discrimination/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/08/31/massachusetts-case-may-be-key-in-gay-marriage-fight-2/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/08/31/massachusetts-case-may-be-key-in-gay-marriage-fight-2/#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:12:59 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=34681 The National Law Journal: While the high-profile, Ted Olson- and David Boies-managed legal fight against California's Proposition 8 captures headlines, a carefully planned case quietly underway in Massachusetts federal court could be the gay marriage test with the greatest national impact . . . Although he called the Massachusetts challenges 'well-planned and coordinated,' Brian Raum, senior counsel to the Alliance Defense Fund, which supports the 1996 law, said, 'I think all four suits are serious challenges. We are confident they ultimately will not prevail. The federal law is clearly constitutional.' . . . Outrage then shifted to the law's supporters who felt the procreation argument was a major leg in the law's defense. 'The government has an interest in creating unions that lend themselves to responsible procreation such that kids are raised with their married biological mother and father,' said Raum, whose Alliance Defense Fund is an amicus party in Smelt." Gill v. Office of Personnel Management Com monwealth v. U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/08/31/massachusetts-case-may-be-key-in-gay-marriage-fight-2/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/08/28/massachusetts-case-may-be-key-in-gay-marriage-fight/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/08/28/massachusetts-case-may-be-key-in-gay-marriage-fight/#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:19:59 +0000 Admin http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=34653 Law.com: "The challenge, Gill v. Office of Personnel Management, is one of four lawsuits in different parts of the country that ask federal courts to strike down all or parts of the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) . . . Although he called the Massachusetts challenges 'well-planned and coordinated,' Brian Raum, senior counsel to the Alliance Defense Fund, which supports the 1996 law, said, 'I think all four suits are serious challenges. We are confident they ultimately will not prevail. The federal law is clearly constitutional.'" ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/08/28/massachusetts-case-may-be-key-in-gay-marriage-fight/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/06/12/aclu-lgbt-legal-and-advocacy-groups-decry-obama-administrations-defense-of-doma/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/06/12/aclu-lgbt-legal-and-advocacy-groups-decry-obama-administrations-defense-of-doma/#comments Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:03:31 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=26991 ACLU: "We are very surprised and deeply disappointed in the manner in which the Obama administration has defended the so-called Defense of Marriage Act in a brief filed today in Smelt v. United States, a lawsuit brought in federal court in California by a married same-sex couple asking the federal government to treat them equally with respect to federal protections and benefits." ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/06/12/aclu-lgbt-legal-and-advocacy-groups-decry-obama-administrations-defense-of-doma/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/03/03/adf-activists-filing-lawsuit-against-doma-want-judge-to-redefine-marriage-for-everyone/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/03/03/adf-activists-filing-lawsuit-against-doma-want-judge-to-redefine-marriage-for-everyone/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:04:53 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=16941 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/03/03/adf-activists-filing-lawsuit-against-doma-want-judge-to-redefine-marriage-for-everyone/feed/ 1 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/03/03/suit-filed-challenging-the-federal-defense-of-marriage-act/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/03/03/suit-filed-challenging-the-federal-defense-of-marriage-act/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:54:57 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=16937 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/03/03/suit-filed-challenging-the-federal-defense-of-marriage-act/feed/ 1 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/01/29/equal-marriage-push-intensifies-in-new-england/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/01/29/equal-marriage-push-intensifies-in-new-england/#comments Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:57:11 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=14020 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/01/29/equal-marriage-push-intensifies-in-new-england/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/01/16/same-sex-marriage-enthusiasts-target-new-england/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/01/16/same-sex-marriage-enthusiasts-target-new-england/#comments Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:29:02 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=12744 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/01/16/same-sex-marriage-enthusiasts-target-new-england/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/01/15/adf-marriage-amendment-needed-in-maine-more-than-ever/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/01/15/adf-marriage-amendment-needed-in-maine-more-than-ever/#comments Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:00:13 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=12605 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/01/15/adf-marriage-amendment-needed-in-maine-more-than-ever/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/01/13/dueling-marriage-bills-introduced-in-maine/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/01/13/dueling-marriage-bills-introduced-in-maine/#comments Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:00:53 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=12426 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/01/13/dueling-marriage-bills-introduced-in-maine/feed/ 0 http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/01/05/gay-marriage-backers-target-new-england/ http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/01/05/gay-marriage-backers-target-new-england/#comments Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:35:40 +0000 ADF Alliance Alert http://www.alliancealert.org/?p=11742 ]]> http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/01/05/gay-marriage-backers-target-new-england/feed/ 0