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D.O.M.A. (Defensa Del Matrimonio/Defense Of Marriage Act) ; PRIMER CASO QUE SE RECONOCE COMO CRÍMEN DE ODIO; COMENTARIOS SOBRE LAS EXPRESIONES DEL GOBERNADOR FORTUÑO SOBRE EL MATRIMONIO DEL MISMO SEXO...
LOS INVITAMOS A LLAMAR Y CONTRIBUÍR CON SUS OPINIONES SOBRE LOS TEMAS.
OBAMA LLAMADO “EL PRESIDENTE GAY” PORQUE SENTÓ UN PRECENDENTE COLGANDO A D.O.M.A. DE UN CLAVO DANDO CON ESTO LUZ VERDE A TODO EL MOVIMIENTO GAY DEL PAÍS…
…AUTOMATICAMENTE SE ENCIENDEN LAS FOGATAS EN TODO EL PAÍS…
Gay Politics Report/3.08.2011
LGBT lawmakers play big roles in marriage, rights debates
The number of openly gay and lesbian state legislators in the U.S. may be small, but they play prominent roles in the fight to secure legal protections for same-sex couples, according to this article. "The more visible we are, the better. When you look someone in the eyes, it's a little harder for them to deny that we should have the same rights," said Deborah Mell, an openly lesbian Illinois state legislator who helped pass a civil unions bill in that state. The Associated Press.
Out lawmakers sponsor Colorado civil unions bill: Two openly gay members of the Colorado state Legislature are supporting an effort to create civil unions for same-sex couples in that state. The bill cleared a state Senate committee vote on Monday. "These are protections no family should be without," state Sen. Pat Steadman, one of the bill's sponsors. The Denver Post.
Washington considers recognizing out-of-state marriages: A Washington state bill sponsored by state Rep. Laurie Jinkins would recognize same-sex couples in legal marriages or civil unions under the state's domestic partnership law. "It says if you have a marriage in another state, you get a domestic partnership here," Jinkins said, explaining that she is attempting to make a technical correction to an existing law. The bill, which has passed in the House, will head to the state Senate. The Associated Press.
Gay, lesbian Maryland delegates issue appeal to colleagues: The six openly gay and lesbian members of the Maryland House of Delegates have issued a letter to their colleagues asking them to support Maryland's marriage equality bill, which is set for a vote this week. "For those of you who are not yet sure if you can support us, what we ask you for is the opportunity to talk face-to-face about the challenges our families face and how this legislation will help us meet them. What we ask is for the opportunity to protect our families as you would protect yours," the letter says. The Washington Post.
Obama made the decision to drop DOMA defense
President Barack Obama, a former professor of constitutional law, surprised both his aides and LGBT groups with his decision to direct the Justice Department to stop defending the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act. He warned White House staffers there would likely be political fallout, but added, "it's the right thing to do." Obama has developed a growing interest in LGBT issues, a source says. The Daily Beast
Boehner announces House will defend DOMA
House Speaker John Boehner announced last week that the House will act to defend the constitutionality of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which forbids federal recognition of the marriages of same-sex couples. The move comes after the Obama administration announced it would no longer direct the Justice Department to defend key portions of the law. Philly.com
N.H. could force presidential hopefuls to weigh in on marriage
If activists succeed in getting the New Hampshire state Legislature to act on a bill that would repeal marriage equality for same-sex couples in early 2012, the timing could force presidential candidates to take sides on the issue. Such a vote could complicate some possible GOP efforts to deflect debate about social issues, according to this article. The Politico (Washington, D.C.)
New York activist slams Trump comments on marriage
Donald Trump's recent comments rejecting marriage equality or limited partnership rights for gay couples have earned him the ire of a gay activist in New York City. "Not only should gays be furious, we should be boycotting the products of the advertisers on his TV show," said Allen Roskoff, who was the city's first openly gay appointed official. Daily News (New York)
Married gay couple faces separation, deportation
Two men who married in the District of Columbia could be separated if one of them, a Salvadoran immigrant, is deported this week. Federal law prevents gay and lesbian U.S. citizens from sponsoring their same-sex partners for residency. Edge Publications
West Hollywood voters consider city's future as a gay haven
The city of West Hollywood, Calif., founded as a refuge for the LGBT community, is grappling with new demographics and new attitudes about gay culture. The debate about the city's future is playing out in local elections that have drawn numerous candidates. The New York Times
Acerca de la noticia más comentada…D.O.M.A.
Aunque tardía la nota, aquí va. En dias pasados hemos sido testigos de grandes victorias pero “la guata” me dice que muchos no recuerdan o tal vez no tienen muy claro lo que es DOMA
D.O.M.A. : “Defense Of Marriage Act”. DOMA es un acta que define y defiende el matrimonio tradicional como la unión de un hombre y una mujer. Acta que se aprobó con la intención de bloquear todo avance de la causa Gay en cuanto al matrimonio del mismo sexo.
DOMA fue creado por la extrema derecha o “conservadora” republicana y los religiosos fundamentalistas-tiesos “de la extrema “whatever” en Norte América. Teniendo el concepto de DOMA claro en la mente, se podría decir que esta decisión de Obama de no defender DOMA es realmente formidable y muy positiva aunque, pasiva por lo antes explicado, ahorra la lucha a nivel federal de todo el país. Quiere decir que su gobierno no defenderá DOMA en ningún caso legal. Dándole esta acción luz verde al movimiento gay CONTRA DOMA…a los grupos LGBTT en PRO del matrimonio del mismo sexo. Es un mensaje clarísimo para TODOS. Dicho esto, nos preguntamos ¿y ahora qué?... Simple, ahora las peleas serán “callejeras” y solamente en las cortes estatales, aunque lleguen al foro más alto que lleguen, el fiscal federal no se meterá en el asunto.
Ahora bien, esto no significa el FINAL DE DOMA. DOMA sigue existiendo y será defendido a capa y espada por los mismos grupos de derecha y fundamentalistas que crearon el acta pero afortunadamente solamente a nivel estatal. Ojo, que esa derrota a nivel federal se puede convertir en una lucha campal poltica en los foros más bajos. Los republicanos se reagruparan y harán un tremendo “revolú politiquero” y un frente unido contra el tema del matrimonio del mismo sexo, osea, defenderan DOMA a muerte. ¿Porqué? Bueno, además de que les encanta la pelea, tienen el mejor de los temas para a los ojos de los conservas y religiosos tratar de tratar de destruír el apoyo al gobierno y obra de Obama. Ellos dirán: “ ¡Inaudito que un PRESIDENTE y además NEGRO venga con esa patraña a este punto del partido y tan liberal en su decisión como para hacer una maniobra política como esa y NO defender DOMA !” Como bien dicen en Castilla La Vieja “an insult to injury”.
¡Si alguien me quiere corregir en errores en cuanto al tema...adelante, será bienvenida la correción!
Aquí les dejo con la noticia relacionada con esta maniobra de OBAMA.
“Don't let Republican leaders in Congress waste time and resources protecting the hateful Defense of Marriage Act”
In the wake of President Obama's courageous decision to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), radical lawmakers have sunk to a new low.
Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor have spent this past week working to placate anti-LGBT members of Congress and their right wing base by indicating they will defend DOMA – no matter what it takes.
So much for their pledges to focus on jobs and the economy. These so-called fiscal conservatives are wasting Congress's time and resources to defend discrimination.
We've never taken these attacks sitting down – and we can't start now. Time and again, our opponents lash out when we make progress. And time and again we band together to stop them. We've got to do it again this week, with a rapid-response effort in Congress and beyond. Can you help now?
In the past several weeks, HRC has helped drive major victories: civil unions in Hawaii and Illinois; unprecedented progress on marriage equality in Maryland, Rhode Island, and New York; and President Obama's decision on DOMA.
But these victories have pushed our opponents to redouble their efforts to undermine equality.
Human Rights Campaign | http://www.hrc.org/Joe Solmonese-PRESIDENT/4-03-2011
GRANDÍSIMA VICTORIA DE LA COMUNIDAD LGBTT EN LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS Y VIENE NADA MENOS QUE DE OBAMA ¿Quieres ponerte al día con un tema crítico? Conviene leerlo para aclarar toneladas de dudas que vemos que existen en la isla…
Recuerden: “Knowledge is POWER”
DOMA: El acta que va en defensa del matrimonio tradicional osea CONTRA EL MATRIMONIO DEL MISMO SEXO.
HRC.com/2/.26.2011/Joe Solmonese-President
Today in America, there are still laws on the books that serve only to oppress LGBT people. As so many of us understand first hand, the Defense of Marriage Act is one such law. This week, Attorney General Holder released the Obama Administration's analysis that Section Three of DOMA, which denies legally-married same sex couples over 1,000 federal protections, is unconstitutional. He also announced that the administration will no longer defend the law in court, reversing the policy it had pursued for the past two years.
I don't need to lecture anyone in our community about the importance of this shift; LGBT Americans experience the reality of this law every day. Without the right to sponsor a spouse for immigration, some couples are forced to choose between love and country. The Family Medical Leave Act does not protect same-sex couples in times of sickness. The lesbian and gay soldiers who will serve our country in uniform once the repeal of “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” is implemented will be rewarded with unequal support—their families will be excluded from many military family benefits. The truth is that DOMA materially harms LGBT people and our families, and there is no way to reconcile our common humanity with the harm that this law selectively inflicts. This week's announcement tells me that today, the administration takes DOMA's harms seriously.
While the administration previously argued that DOMA served various legitimate purposes, this week it acknowledged that discriminating against gay people doesn't serve such an objective. It also acknowledged the elephant in the room – DOMA's pedigree as a legislative statement of moral disapproval.
This President, a constitutional law professor, did not wake up one morning and adopt a novel interpretation of equal protection. He stared down an oppressive law with eyes wide open. He judged it in light of truths to which our nation was once blind. And he got it right.
And while this step forward in monumental, it is just the beginning of the fight for marriage equality at the federal level. There is no doubt that those opposed to equality will throw everything they have defending this terrible law – or that we will stand up to them, no matter what. But it is because of this fight ahead of us that we have got to keep things moving in the states. This week a victory in the Maryland Senate moved a marriage equality bill one step closer to reality, while in the pacific a supportive governor finally made a breakthrough by signing civil unions into law in Hawaii. Plenty of factors made these victories possible, but it was your actions, from phone calls to statehouse visits and everything in between, that helped to make them possible.
So we keep at it; we take these tremendous victories and we thank those that helped us to make them a reality, but we do not take our eyes off of the road ahead. Together we keep pressing and we do everything that we can to make tomorrow's America a place that is truly fair and equitable for everyone.
Joe Solmonese
President, Human Rights Campaign
Vale la pena leer el recuento de la historia política sobre el gran “issue” EL Matrimonio del Mismo Sexo.
washingtonpost.com/2-23-2011/Post Politics/Jerry Markon, Ed O'Keefe, Sandhya Somashekhar and Peyton M. Craighill
In gay rights victory, Obama administration won't defend Defense of Marriage Act
The White House says President Barack Obama is "grappling" with his personal views on gay marriage even as he's ordered the Justice Department to stop defending the constitutionality of a law that bans it.
The Obama administration announced Wednesday that it will no longer defend the constitutionality of the federal government's ban on recognizing same-sex marriages, a rare legal reversal and the latest in a series of political victories for gay rights activists.
In gay rights victory, Obama administration won't defend Defense of Marriage Act
The Justice Department had appealed the decision of a federal judge in Massachusetts who struck down the Defense of Marriage Act in July, saying it was obligated to defend federal statutes. The 1996 law defines marriage from the federal perspective as between a man and a woman, which means same-sex married couples are denied access to marriage-based federal benefits.
In an extraordinary change, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said Wednesday that he and President Obama had determined - after an extensive review - that the law's key section is unconstitutional. "Given that conclusion, the President has instructed the Department not to defend the statute" in court, Holder said in a statement.
Administration officials said the review was triggered by a court-imposed filing deadline in two new legal challenges to the Defense of Marriage Act, filed in federal courts in New York and Connecticut.
The change in position came after intense lobbying of Justice Department and White House officials by gay rights groups and the American Civil Liberties Union, according to activists familiar with the White House's thinking.The conversations included meetings with White House counsel Robert Bauer and one of Obama's closest advisors, Valerie Jarrett. "There has been an all-out effort to get them to do the right thing," said one activist, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe internal deliberations.
Obama's relationship with the gay community, a key part of his political base, has been complicated, and activists had strongly opposed the administration's earlier defense of the federal same-sex marriage law. The president has said in the past that he does not support the right of gay couples to marry, though he said in December that his views are "evolving."
White House press secretary Jay Carney said Wednesday that Obama's "position on the Defense of Marriage Act has been consistent: He has long opposed it as unnecessary and unfair." He said that the decision to change the government's legal position is "separate" from Obama's personal views and that the president has been "grappling" with the broader issue of same-sex marriage.
The administration's decision on the federal law comes as gay rights advocates have won a series of recent changes in how the federal government treats gay men and lesbians, including Obama's signing in December of legislation to end the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy banning gays from openly serving in uniform.
Liberal groups hailed the reversal. "The President has chosen to defend the Constitution of the United States over a discriminatory and clearly unconstitutional law," said Michael Keegan, president of People for the American Way. "That decision should be commended. A discriminatory law like DOMA has no place in a country grounded in the values of freedom and equality."
Richard Socarides, a longtime gay rights activists and director of Equality Matters, said Wednesday's announcement was as significant as Obama's push to end the ban on gays serving openly in the military.
"This is the position he took on the campaign trail, but now the government's policy will match up with the political rhetoric," he said.
Conservative groups vehemently objected, saying the administration's earlier position of defending the law in court was the right one. Holder acknowledged in his statement that the legal reversal was "rare." The Justice Department customarily defends federal laws in court.
"It's a dereliction of duty," said Tom McClusky, senior vice president of Family Research Council Action. "Whether they agree with the law or not is irrelevant. . . . The Obama administration has purposely dropped the ball here."
Same-sex marriage is legal in five states, including Massachusetts, and the District. The Maryland Senate on Wednesday advanced a bill to legalize it, and is expected to give the measure final approval Thursday. But same-sex couples are disqualified from receiving marriage-based federal benefits under the Defense of Marriage Act. Those who oppose the federal law say it requires states to discriminate against their citizens.
One of several reasons why the decision to end the government's defense of the marriage law came this week is that the March 11 filing deadline is two days after the one-year anniversary of the District's same-sex marriage law. The White House was aware that gay rights groups would have used the anniversary to contrast the administration's defense of the law against the District's embrace of marriage equality, according to activists.
Groups opposed to same-sex marriage say they will lobby House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to hire counsel to defend the law. His office has not said what he will do, but his spokesman Michael Steel criticized the Obama administration for its stand.
"While Americans want Washington to focus on creating jobs and cutting spending, the President will have to explain why he thinks now is the appropriate time to stir up a controversial issue that sharply divides the nation," he said.
A poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press in September found 43 percent of those surveyed favored allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally and 47 percent opposed. This is a high point for favorability of same-sex marriage in the center's polling back to 1996. The poll showed wide partisan divisions: 55 percent of Democrats and 46 percent of independents favored same-sex marriage, but only 21 percent of Republicans. The Washington Post's polls show a similar division and trend.
Orden Ejecutiva aprueba medidas para defender los transexuales…
Universo Gay/20 de febrero de 2011/ Alexander Rocha
El gobernador del estado de Massachusetts firmó una orden ejecutiva en su despacho que impide que cualquier trabajador del gobierno pueda ser discriminado por motivos relacionados con su género.
Deval Patrick, el gobernador de Boston, aprobó el pasado jueves 17 de febrero una orden ejecutiva que establece una serie de medidas para impedir que cualquier institución de la región sea capaz de echar de su puesto de trabajo a una persona por ser transgénero.
En la agenda pública del político, ni tampoco en una nota de prensa, se manifestó públicamente que el gobernador fuese a firmar el proyecto, habiéndose producido en una ceremonia privada en la que solo estaban presentes, aparte de Deval Patrick, abogados y personas transexuales que trabajan en la actualidad para el estado.
Los activistas han manifestado su total apoyo a este proyecto que establece un referente en medidas contra la discriminación en todo el país americano, ayudando a que se aprueben leyes a nivel nacional a favor de la tolerancia.
Diane DeLap, trabajador transexual de Boston, declaró que "esto enseña a la sociedad que las personas transexuales también merecen un trabajo y ser tratadas bien".
Tampoco faltaron las críticas al proyecto, calificadas por los partidos de la oposición, homófobos, como la "ley del baño", aludiendo que "permitiría a cualquier sexo meterse en el baño del otro".
Universo Gay | 20.febrero.2011 / Alexander Rocha
AHORA LOS SILENCIOSOS SERAN LOS HÉTEROS PREJUICIADOS Y TENDRÁN QUE FUNCIONAR CON LA NUEVA POLÍTICA EN LA UNIFORMADA.
PROHIBÍDO OLVIDAR SOPENA DE EXPULSIÓN…
Después de que un juez dictaminara que la ley discriminatoria del ejército estadounidense era inconstitucional, empiezan a ser juzgados y despedidos altos mandos por violación de los derechos humanos.
Un Oficial de la Marina fue despedido por las torturas infringidas a marines estadounidenses en misiones en Bahrein bajo su mandato, humillando constantemente a distintas personas por su orientación sexual para, una vez que después se hizo público que eran homosexuales, echarlos por la ley estadounidense discriminatoria que fue anulada hace escasos meses.
Muchos de los marines destinados a Bahrein bajo el mando de dicho oficial han confesado a los investigadores, bajo estricto anonimato, las distintas medidas discriminatorias que el oficial impartía a las personas que sabía que eran homosexuales o bisexuales.
La Marina emitió un comunicado diciendo que el oficial despedido "no cumple con con los estándares que se le exigen a un cargo de su talla".
Uno de los marines discriminados, tras saber la noticia, ha manifestado: "Este caso tendrá un gran impacto en las fuerzas armadas, lo que hará que nuestros hombres y mujeres estén seguros con su trabajo, además de honrar a las personas que ya han sido maltratadas por llevar el uniforme".
