ACLU Files Suit Challenging NC Second Parent Adoptions Ban. The ACLU this week filed a federal lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s ban on second parent adoptions.
Second parent adoptions occur when one partner in an unmarried couple adopts the other partner’s biological or adopted children so as to be able to access the legal recognition of parenthood. For several years family court judges in North Carolina had recognized second parent adoptions. However, in 2010 the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that second parent adoptions involving same-sex couples isn’t legal in the state because the state confers parenting rights as part of its narrow definition of marriage factored against biological parenting rights.
This means that even though the so-called second parent may have raised the family’s children as her own for a number of years, a second parent would have no parental claim should the relationship dissolve or something happen to the designated parent. Ninth Circuit Rejects Prop 8 Rehearing, Setting Up Appeal to Supreme Court. WASHINGTON - June 5 - Today the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals filed an order denying a request by proponents of Proposition 8 to refer Perry vs.
Brown to a larger panel of judges. Below is a statement released by Evan Wolfson, founder and President of Freedom to Marry: “Today’s decision by the Ninth Circuit to deny a rehearing of Perry vs. In civil unions debate, Hickenlooper misplaced priorities. Over the last week, Gov.
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Gary Johnson makes a statement in the Fox News/Google GOP Debate at the Orange County Convention Center on September 22, 2011 in Orlando, Florida. Gary Johnson: I'm The Best Candidate On Gay Marriage. Michael Bennet for U.S. Senate. BREAKING: Joe Biden Endorses Same-Sex Marriage. Could marriage equality become a dog whistle issue for the conservative base? North Carolina: Marriage Rights (but Not Equal Rights) on the May 8th Ballot. North Carolina polls are open for early voting in the primary election, and the rights of unmarried couples are being put to a public referendum.
I voted against North Carolina’s Amendment One, which seeks to amend the state constitution “to provide that marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in th[e] state.” A recent Pew poll shows that nationally support for gay marriage is higher than ever —47 percent of Americans in favor of it; 43 percent opposing — but North Carolinians have tended to be less progressive on the issue.
When Amendment One was introduced last September, public opinion polls reported that only 31 percent of North Carolinians were in favor of legalizing gay marriage, and 61 percent favored keeping it illegal. The fate of the amendment to ban civil unions and gay marriage will be decided on May 8th, the official primary election day. Local religious leaders have come out on both sides of the debate. Backers of North Carolina gay marriage ban: State no longer 'vulnerable' Gov.
Bev Perdue shares her thoughts on the gay marriage fight taking place in North Carolina on Tuesday and struggles to say whether she is for or against gay marriage itself. By Miranda Leitsinger, Staff Writer, NBC News Updated at 8:30 a.m. Obama's Gay Marriage Equivocation. "I favor legalizing same-sex marriages," Barack Obama told a gay newspaper while seeking his first term as an Illinois state senator in 1996, "and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages.
" When Obama ran for re-election in 1998, he took the National Political Awareness Test, which among other things asked, "Do you believe that the Illinois government should recognize same-sex marriages? " His response: "Undecided. " It took Obama only two years to learn the political value of reticence regarding touchy social issues—a concept that evidently still eludes Vice President Joe Biden, whose unguarded comments about gay marriage on Sunday called unwelcome attention to his boss's studied ambiguity on the subject. Yet a close look at Obama's statements over the years suggests his spokesman is telling the truth when he says Biden's position is essentially the same as the president's. "The government has to treat all citizens equally," Obama said during a 2007 presidential debate.
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Help me fight back by supporting a pro-equality majority! It was an astonishing display of political desperation by the Colorado State House Republicans last night. The GOP leadership blocked pro-equality legislation from coming to a vote, because they knew civil unions had the bipartisan support needed to become law. Democracy was thwarted last night, and it's time we fought back! In the end, the GOP Speaker of the House used gridlock to kill civil union legislation--and with it dozens of other pieces of important legislation--all on the altar of an extreme, anti-equality ideological agenda. Now it's our job to elect a new majority in November so that we can fulfill our historic mission. Sincerely, Health rights at the core of dead civil unions bill.