http://imeq.us/info2 Your Source for imeQ Social News and Binational Networking Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST en http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/rights-at-heart-of-marriage-issue---nashua-telegraph/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/rights-at-heart-of-marriage-issue---nashua-telegraph/ Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:03:24 EDT ExileComingHome immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/rights-at-heart-of-marriage-issue---nashua-telegraph/
The federal Defense of Marriage Act of 1996 sees to that, blocking 1,138 marital rights and protections for homosexual couples even in states where same-sex marriage is legal.

...In March, GLAD filed a federal lawsuit in Boston challenging the denial of benefits under the Defense of Marriage Act for eight married couples and three surviving spouses living in Massachusetts.

The suit notes Congress adopted DOMA before same-sex marriage was legal in any state and claims it violates the equal protection clause under the Constitution. They advised supporters on their Web site that the lawsuit route could succeed before DOMA is ever ta

24 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/economy-remains-issue-no-1-but-right-wingers-paranoid/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/economy-remains-issue-no-1-but-right-wingers-paranoid/ Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:03:24 EDT DividedByLaw immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/economy-remains-issue-no-1-but-right-wingers-paranoid/
17 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/how-i-define-an-lgbt-issue-open-left/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/how-i-define-an-lgbt-issue-open-left/ Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:03:24 EDT ATLdave immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/how-i-define-an-lgbt-issue-open-left/ Why is that? I think it's because with the exception of HIV/AIDS, all of those policies specifically discriminate against LGBT people. Federal employment non-discrimination laws, for example, protect lots of categories of people- race, religion, sex, and so forth. Sexual orientation and gender identity are specifically excluded, so this is an "LGBT" issue.

Contrast that with immigration reform. After the Uniting American Families Act provision wasn't included in the bill as introduced (which would allow same-sex binational couples to have the same access to immigration benefits that heterosexual couples do), I can't tell you how many p

11 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/are-we-queers-still-going-to-be-a-wedge-issue-the-fake-mexican/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/are-we-queers-still-going-to-be-a-wedge-issue-the-fake-mexican/ Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:03:24 EDT OurHero-Tan immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/are-we-queers-still-going-to-be-a-wedge-issue-the-fake-mexican/
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops and the National Hispanic Christian Leader's Conference can both KISS MY ASS!

10 Vote(s) ]]> http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/obama-under-pressure-on-lgbt-issues-the-advocate/ http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/obama-under-pressure-on-lgbt-issues-the-advocate/ Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:03:24 EDT MarcoMUC immigration equality rights http://imeq.us/info2/category/immigration-equality-rights/obama-under-pressure-on-lgbt-issues-the-advocate/
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