In what is perhaps a watershed moment in the long fight for gay rights, the current battle over the Defense of Marriage Act is being waged with at least tacit acknowledgment from all sides that it is ...

WASHINGTON-- New York Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, president of the U.S. bishops' conference, told President Barack Obama in a Sept. 20 letter that his administration's fight against the Defense of ...

Editor’s Note: Roberta Kaplan, an attorney, successfully argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of Edie Windsor in her fight against DOMA. She is a lecturer at Columbia Law School. The ...

Enacted in 1996, the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) has long been a titan-sized barrier to accomplishing same-sex marriage equality. As such, repealing the law has become a major priority for those in ...

Mike Dragovich met the love of his life, Mike Gaitley, in 1979. Little did they know that years later they would become part of a lawsuit that sought to provide benefits for same-sex couples. While ...

The bankruptcy case that became one of many battlegrounds in the fight over the Defense of Marriage Act has come to an end, with the Justice Department and congressional Republicans bowing out of the ...

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and 132 other Democrats on Thursday joined in the fight to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act in court by filing a legal brief in support of ...

Politics and business may be well acquainted behind closed doors and in backrooms, but out in the light of day, corporate America is in the business of attracting customers–not advocating social ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter J Reilly is a Forbes contributor who covers taxes. It turns out that GLAD was the moving force in both those cases. In ...

DOMA has been declared unconstitutional in several lower courts The 1996 law defines marriage as between a man and a woman It%27s possible the justices ultimately will sidestep a far-reaching decision ...