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National civil rights groups including the Anti-Defamation League and the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund explain that denying same-sex couples the right to marry is not merely a denial of the collective rights and duties that married New Yorkers enjoy, but a denial of due process and equal protection of the State’s laws.
Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (“GLAD”) were lead counsel for plaintiffs in Goodridge v. Dept. of Public Health, 440 Mass. 309 (2003), the lawsuit that successfully challenged the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage under Massachusetts law.
Leading associations of psychologists, psychiatrists and behavioral scientists explain why ending the prohibition on marriage for same-sex couples is in the best interest of children being raised by these parents. The brief discusses empirical research which has consistently shown that lesbian and gay parents do not differ from heterosexuals in their parenting skills and their children do not show any deficits compared to children raised by heterosexual parents. Whitman, Osterman & Hanna LLP and Jenner & Block are counsel for amici.
New York State’s leading lobbying and grass-roots advocacy organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender New Yorkers and their families, along with other state and local organizations, highlight the variety of important ways that New York State already recognizes same-sex relationships and that allowing same-sex couples to marry furthers New York State’s practice of according equality
Letter to CDC from a coalition of groups — including Lambda Legal — expressing concerns about the CDC's draft recommendations and the process by which CDC came up with that draft