Boehner's Blank Check to Anti-Gay Lawyers: April 11, This Week in Prop 8

Why did John Boehner sign up for a protracted legal fight over anti-gay laws without finding out first what it was going to cost the taxpayers? Hope is on the way for gay couples facing homelessness due to discriminatory Medicaid policies. Civil unions advance in Delaware but marriage is on the rocks in Rhode Island. And will we see Prop 8 back on the ballot in 2012?

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• gay marriage
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• equality
• civil rights
• medicaid
• gay
• rhode island
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• john boehner
• nancy pelosi
• john conyers
• tammy baldwin
• jared polis
• david cicilline
• barney frank
• doma
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[tjdaneker]

My Rep and Senator are both supportive in RI :)

[cherrydog9]

@breakingthisdown because judges should distance themselves as much as much as possible from the social/political process outside the judiciary, else risk self-recusal, or at least accusations thereof. The anti-gay right would have a field day with a video like that and stoke up more backlash. Why make progress more difficult than it needs to be?

[greggie83]

Keep up the good work!

[MaryJesusJoseph]

It's great that Boehner is so committed to what's important. While he could go off on petty things like the deficit or unemployment he's instead focusing on DOMA and defunding Planned Parenthoot and NPR.

[sonoki82]

Matt Baume is either clueless or uninterested about his own reports. Just last January, he reported that he called EQCA and they told him that a return to the ballot was not even on their radar. Is the sudden change just a cynical effort to raise money, or did EQCA simply show incompetence by failing to even think about the issue until 18 months b4 election day?

Maybe Baume will pick up the phone and try to find out. But I doubt it.

[beeblmeyer]

Matt Baume, you are my personal hero.

Thank you, again and again.

[depfox]

Another Great video. I always learn a lot from your videos big fan here. Good for all the Democrats for putting preasure on the Republicans. I hope the federal government will get ride of DOMA. Good for Delaware I hope RI gets together behind Marriage Equality...I thought we skipped 2010 so that we could all work together in 2012. WTF

[MacMorrighan]

If only my reps. in DC would listen to me! Sadly, one of my reps. is Steve King & he ignores me & sends me form letters telling me how opposed he is to me (as a Gay man)! Though, why don't we start a campaign calling virulently anti-Gay politicians what they are: "Gay Bashers", because they're using the law to BASH us & oppress us! Gods, I still can't believe that Gallagher was SO publicly insensitive to declare that "the sky didn't fall" when Marriage Equality was invalidated! WTF?!

[rextrek]

awsome vid! thnk u

[breakingthisdown]

@cherrydog9 How so? Was he not an esteemed judge for many years?