President Obama signs a Memorandum on Federal Benefits and Non-Discrimination

June 17, 2009 - Earlier this evening President Obama signed a Presidential Memorandum that will provide steps towards equality for Federal employees. The memorandum extends many benefits to same-sex partners of Federal employees that are already granted to partners of heterosexual Federal employees. After outlining the details of his Memorandum the President went further by calling on Congress to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act;
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New Hampshire Governor signs marriage equality into law

June 3, 2009 - Earlier this afternoon Governor Lynch (D) signed a bill into law giving equal rights to residents of New Hampshire. The bill passed both the state house and senate before reaching the Governor's desk this afternoon. Prior to signing the bill into the law Governor Lynch delivered remarks on why he supported this bill;
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Vermont legislature overturns Governor veto of same sex marriage

April 7, 2009 - The Vermont legislature has overturned the Governor's veto of their same sex marriage bill. Vermont joins Massachusetts, Connecticut and Iowa in allowing marriage equality.
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Dean on Senate Vote Rejecting Federal Marriage Amendment

June 7, 2006 - Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean today issued the following statement on the Senate vote against President Bush’s effort to use marriage as a political wedge issue and divide the American people.
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Federal Marriage Amendment Defeated in the Senate

June 7, 2006 - The Senate voted today to reject an amendment that would have written discrimination into the U.S. Constitution. Republicans had been using this wedge issue in hopes of distracting from their failures and dividing Americans to win elections.
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Human Rights Campaign President: Marriage Amendment Shows GOP's Misplaced Priorities

June 7, 2006 - This week, the DNC's Podcast hosted Joe Solmonese, President of the Human Rights Campaign. As the Senate votes on the Federal Marriage Amendment, Solmonese discussed the President's attempts to use marriage as a wedge issue to pander to his conservative political base and distract from his failed leadership.
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Dean to Republicans: Stop Using Marriage to Pander to Base, Deflect from Failed Leadership

June 6, 2006 - Facing crumbling credibility even among their conservative political base, President Bush today publicly endorsed a divisive anti-marriage constitutional amendment to be introduced this week by Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist that would legislate discrimination into the Constitution.
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Quote of the Day

June 6, 2006 - "The secret to this game is you always want to be thinking politically, but you don't want to look political. This looks like desperation politics." -- GOP strategist Ed Rollins, on CNN, discussing President Bush's proposal to ban gay marriage...
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Dean: Stop Using Marriage to Pander to Base, Deflect from Failed Leadership

June 5, 2006 - Facing crumbling credibility even among their conservative political base, President Bush publicly endorsed a divisive anti-marriage constitutional amendment to be introduced this week by Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist that would legislate discrimination into the Constitution.
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Don't Trample on LGBT Americans for Partisan Gain

June 2, 2006 - It's an election year, and Republicans are in deep trouble. Instead of addressing the things Americans really care about, they're trying to change the subject and use wedge issues in hopes of distracting from their failures and dividing Americans to win elections.
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Howard Dean on the Judiciary Committee's Vote on the Federal Marriage Amendment

May 19, 2006 - Yesterday in a small room with restricted access to the general public, under a shameful cloak of secrecy, the Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee rammed through a proposed Constitutional amendment that would prohibit states to recognize same-sex marriages.
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