full equality for the LGBT community. The event, named the National Equality March, comes on the heels of growing calls for the federal government to pick up the pace on civil rights legislation, such as recognition for LGBT couples, repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and finally passing an inclusive employment non-discrimination act. Organizers say they are expecting tens of thousands – if not hundreds of thousands – of participants for the event.
Steve and Joe, however, will be notably absent.
The couple, who recently married in Connecticut and bought a home in Washington, D.C., will not be in the capital on Sunday. Instead, they will be packing Joe’s belongings. Under federal law, Steve and Joe are no longer allowed to live together in the country they call home.
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US Immigration Law Tearing Apart Life Love and Home #NEM
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ATLdave 956 days ago
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com)
Episcopal Church Adopts Immigration Equality Resolution
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DividedByLaw 1010 days ago
(http://www.episcopalchurch.org)
Assure fairness in immigration and specifically provide immigration equality for same-gender couples (D076). CONCURRED: The Resolution was adopted by both Houses and has become an Act of Convention.
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The 76th General Convention, meeting in Anaheim, California, July 8-17, acted on or referred every one of the 419 resolutions it considered.
Below is an unofficial, unaudited, abbreviated summary of some of the resolutions passed by both the House of Bishops and the House of Deputies. ENS staff culled it from the General Convention Office's searchable legislative tracking website.
Meanwhile, the church's General Convention office has produced a 25-page summary of convention actions available here. It includes a list of resolutions sorted by their final status; a list of resolutions that deal with the church's constitution, canons and the convention's
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The 76th General Convention, meeting in Anaheim, California, July 8-17, acted on or referred every one of the 419 resolutions it considered.
Below is an unofficial, unaudited, abbreviated summary of some of the resolutions passed by both the House of Bishops and the House of Deputies. ENS staff culled it from the General Convention Office's searchable legislative tracking website.
Meanwhile, the church's General Convention office has produced a 25-page summary of convention actions available here. It includes a list of resolutions sorted by their final status; a list of resolutions that deal with the church's constitution, canons and the convention's
Gay marriage legal from today in Hungary but gap in rights persists
Posted by
SFbeat 1052 days ago
(http://www.caboodle.hu)
Homosexual couples can forge life partnerships before public notaries from Wednesday.These life partnerships will be guaranteed the same tax, employment, social and immigration benefits as heterosexual marriages. Gay couples will be barred from adopting children and taking their spouse's name, however.
Constitutional Court spokesman András Sereg told Magyar Hírlap that the Act, which was passed in March, can only now be challenged at the Constitutional Court.
Constitutional Court spokesman András Sereg told Magyar Hírlap that the Act, which was passed in March, can only now be challenged at the Constitutional Court.
Check Your Marriage at the Border
Posted by
OurHero-Tan 1064 days ago
(http://exiledefacto.blogspot.com)
Several years ago, after attending the wedding of a distant acquaintance and listening to the pastor's sermon about the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman, Sarah and I made a decision that we wouldn't attend any weddings unless 1) it was the wedding of a very close relative, or 2) it was the wedding of a couple who saw our marriage with the same seriousness and as having the same weight as any official heterosexual marriage. The second scenario involved a lot of imagining how certain people would behave if they attended a same-sex wedding ceremony. It's not as simple as it sounds to determine whether or not someone actually would view such a non-traditional wedding as legitimate.
Sure, we know a fair amount of individuals who claim they would take a same-sex wedding seriously, but most of these people, in their desperation to show just how okay they are with tho
Sure, we know a fair amount of individuals who claim they would take a same-sex wedding seriously, but most of these people, in their desperation to show just how okay they are with tho
This issue hits LGBT Foreign Service families particularly hard. Like their straight colleagues, many LGBT Foreign Service officers find the loves of their lives while serving their country overseas. And thus begins the difficult path of constantly choosing between their family and serving their country. Most end up serving only overseas, to the detriment of their ability to advance in a career that depends on making connections back in Washington, DC. And most end up, at the end of their careers spent serving the country they love, not being able to retire to the country they love because it means leaving the person they love behind.
Martha McDevitt-Pugh, founder and chairwoman of the advocacy group Love Exiles, gave up waiting for things to change and moved to the Netherlands so she could be with her Dutch partner, Lin McDevitt-Pugh. ...
Martha McDevitt-Pugh, founder and chairwoman of the advocacy group Love Exiles, gave up waiting for things to change and moved to the Netherlands so she could be with her Dutch partner, Lin McDevitt-Pugh. ...
UAFA Gets Congressional Hearing
Posted by
Fight4theRight 1096 days ago
(http://www.stevenrowe.org)
I am not sure if the bill will go forward on its own or as suggested by Immigration Equality will be part of the bigger picture that is reform of immigration law. In other good news there are more co-sponsors who have signed up for UAFA ...
Bay Area family's life upended by immigration nightmare
Posted by
freedom2immigrate 1145 days ago
(http://www.edgesanfrancisco.com)
A family could be ripped apart: Twins Joriene and Jashley sit with their parents, Jay Mercado and Shirley Tan, while Jay's mother, Renee Mercado, looks on in the back in their living room.
Bay Area family's life upended by immigration nightmare (Bay Area Reporter)
Posted by
BinatUK 1145 days ago
(http://www.ebar.com)
Proud ParentingBay Area family's life upended by immigration nightmareBay Area Reporter, CAWhile Tan and Mercado face the most difficult of circumstances, federal legislation has been reintroduced in Congress that would protect binational same-sex couples. Unfortunately, it comes too late for Tan and Mercado as no action has been taken yet ...MARRIAGE EQUALITY USA, OUT4IMMIGRATION, AND LOVE EXILES REPORT ... California Chronicleall 26 news articles
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