A press release on the American Humanist Association's own site, dated 5 March 2015, announcing the organization's amicus curiae brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in Obergefell v. Hodges. Quotes executive director Roy Speckhardt stating the equal recognition of LGBTQ marriages across the country is long overdue, and states the brief argued that denying marriage to same-sex couples violates the Equal Protection Clause and the Establishment Clause by privileging religious doctrines opposed to same-sex unions.
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The movement's own official site announcing its own Supreme Court filing in its own words, paired with the organization's own numbered resolution for a second, earlier dated marker. NotesCited for the American Humanist Association's sexuality-position and its detail, the 2015 Obergefell filing.
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PublisherAmerican Humanist Association
Publication Year2015
URLhttps://americanhumanist.org/news/2015-03-uphold-the-rights-of-same-sex-couples-says-humanist/
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Custodian BodyAmerican Humanist Association
Custodian BasisThe organization's own official site announcing its own Supreme Court filing in its own words.
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