‘President Bush and the Republican leadership gambled their dwindling political capital on a discriminatory amendment and came up empty,’ said Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese. ‘With the addition of Senators Specter and Gregg, not only did every senator who voted against discrimination in 2004 stand with us today but momentum is on the side of equality.’
‘The momentum in this country is toward equality and this summer we are keeping that force moving forward by talking with Americans about joining the fight for fairness,’ said Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese.
Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese sends a letter to the 203 members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, who considered an amendment that would put discrimination into the state constitution and deny critical protections to thousands of Pennsylvania families.
The American workplace has reached a milestone this year with the majority of Fortune 500 companies offering domestic partner health insurance benefits, according to the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s report, “The State of the Workplace for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Americans 2005-2006.”
Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese makes a statement as the American Academy of Pediatrics journal published a report today finding that children of same-sex couples would benefit from marriage fairness for their parents.
Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese makes a comment as extremists in Arizona filed a petition to put a discriminatory constitutional amendment on the November ballot that would deny domestic partner benefits to couples in the state and strip cities that already offer these benefits the right to do so.