The common signs of infidelity that we are all taught -- disconnection, lack of sex, change in hours and secretive behavior -- act as a distraction from the underlying issues that can destroy a relationship. It keeps you looking outside the union for threats when your gaze should really be turned inward. Show More Summary
The primary goal of the Affordable Care Act—getting the uninsured and working poor access to health insurance—is likely to be complicated by the fact that the regular complications of life (marriage, divorce, having children, job changes, layoffs) have such a significant impact on the income of people living on the edge of poverty. Show More Summary
I did not expect to run into a study (based on comprehensive data in Denmark) in the International Journal of Cancer that shows so clearly that the retreat from marriage — not just as a legal act but as a norm — has medical consequences. Show More Summary
Morgan Stanley Wealth Management Hosts Marriage Before The Court - The Future of the Defense of Marriage Act and CA Proposition 8 NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Morgan Stanley Wealth Management announced today that, in partnership withShow More Summary
As he had promised, French President Francois Hollande signed the marriage equality bill into law this morning. Hollande acted a day after the Constitutional Council threw out a legal challenge by the right-wing opposition, which had been the last obstacle to passing the bill into law. Show More Summary
AEI: The Tax Treatment of the Family, by Aspen Gorry & Sita Nataraj Slavov: In two recent cases, the U.S. Supreme Court considered constitutional challenges to the federal Defense of Marriage Act—which denies federal recognition of same-sex marriage—and to California’s Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. Regardless of...
Missing Husband, a heartbreaking new video from The DOMA Project tells the story of David and Jason, a married binational couple separated by 6,000 miles because of the Defense of Marriage Act and an unjust immigration system. Watch, AFTER THE...
Just try pinning Jay Mohr down on an ideological map. The stand-up comic, sports radio host, podcaster and actor (Gary Unmarried, Jerry Maguire ) is a pro-faith humorist whose act features plenty of sexually charged gags. He's pro-gun...Show More Summary
Mika will headline a free concert on May 21 in Paris to celebrate France's marriage equality law and bolster the fight against homophobia in France, ACT UP reports: The Franco-British artist, who has made public his homosexuality last September, will...
High-powered entertainment attorney Steve Warren demanded that Justice Clarence Thomas and the rest of the Supreme Court justices act against the Defense of Marriage Act and Prop. 8 during a stirring speech at the GLAAD Media Awards in San Francisco last night. “Our basic civil rights are currently being experimented with in 50 different state laboratories,” [...]
With the list of marriage equality states doubling in the last six months and New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s introduction this week of the Every Child Deserves a Family Act which would remove barriers to same-sex couples who wish to foster or adopt children, it is fitting that The New Yorker honors mothers this year with a Happy Mothers’ Day cover.
A conservative United Methodist pastor with a traditional view of marriage says that a clergyman set to be on trial for officiating his son's gay wedding acted in a way that is "injurious to the church."
This chick smh… Despite acting like tabloid rumors of her husband’s previous infidelity are minor annoyances, friends of Kim Zolciak say she’s putting on an act for the public while secretly relishing the attention!
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Rev. Dr. Thomas W. Ogletree, only wanting to fully participate in his son's marriage, unwittingly became a symbol of religious defiance. He told The New York Times, "I actually wasn't thinking of it as an act of civil disobedience or church disobedience. I was thinking of it as a response to my son."
"For the first time in our nation’s history, the Supreme Court is considering two cases about whether ornot marriage should be redefined to include two persons of the same sex. These cases involve the federal Defense of Marriage ActShow More Summary
The Lonely Island released a video today for their new single "Spring Break Anthem," a video that mixes spring break hijinx with same-sex marriage and wedding planning.
In a sneaky swerve the video starts off as a new edition of actor Zach Galifianakis' Funny Or Die "Between Two Ferns" series. Show More Summary
Last summer, Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) told ThinkProgress that he opposed the Employment Non-Discrimination Act because he feared it would lead to a lot of litigation, intimidating employers. Since then, Portman has endorsed marriage equality, motivated by what he learned from his son’s coming out. Unfortunately, it seems he still has reservations about granting legal [...]
Though titled "Engagement," this week's Revenge episode has so much more in store than a simple engagement plot. Emily and Daniel are back on for marriage, much to Aiden's chagrin. Charlotte is still acting out, Jack is trying to put...Show More Summary
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are preparing to consider hundreds of proposed amendments to the immigration reform bill, one of which will extend protections to bi-national same-sex couples, because the Defense of Marriage Act current prevents them from sponsoring foreign-born partners. Show More Summary
An update on the Gay Marriage USA’s Facebook page told the surprising story of a Morgan, an 18-year-old, straight senior from Sundown Texas, who felt that what her school was doing to her was an act of discrimination that she wasn’t going to lay down for. Earlier this week, Morgan was planning to take her [...]