News & Commentary

Madison — Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin are preparing to file a lawsuit to protect more than 500 same-sex marriages that still remain in legal limbo. A representative of th

By Steven Elbow | The Capital Times

The ACLU of Wisconsin would like to speak to same-sex couples who were married between June 6-13, 2014 since they are considering legal action against the state on behalf of couples whose marriages have been denied recognition by the state or local governments.  If you were married in that time period and are facing harm because your marriage is being denied recognition, please fill out the survey by July 2nd at midnight.

Written by Wisconsin Gazette Tuesday, 24 June 2014 15:59

In Wisconsin, heavily-armed SWAT teams are raiding people’s homes in the middle of the night, often just to search for drugs. It should enrage us that people have needlessly died during these raids, that pets have been shot, and that homes have been ravaged.   

June 6, 2014, will go down in Wisconsin history as the day when county clerks first issued marriage licenses to same-sex couples in the Badger State. It was on June 6 that federal Judge Barbara Crabb declared that Wisconsin's ban on same-sex marriages was unconstitutional in a case brought before her by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of eight Wisconsin lesbian and gay couples. The ban, the judge declared, violated the plaintiffs' fundamental right to marry and their right to equal protection of laws under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution. Despite Crabb's stay of her subsequent June 13 order and the obstinate resistance of Gov. Scott Walker and Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, on June 6 our state joined the r

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union in Wisconsin are looking at whether to file lawsuits on behalf of same-sex couples who got married after a federal judge struck down the state's ban on gay marriages.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from the Elmbrook School District, leaving in place a federal appeals court decision that said holding public high school graduations in a church was unconstitutional for violating the separation of church and state. In 2012, the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled against the Elmbrook School District for holding graduation ceremonies inside Elmbrook Church in Brookfield. Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which filed the suit in 2009 on behalf of nine st

  Bill Hurtubise and Dean Palmer, Wisconsin Bill Hurtubise and Dean Palmer of Racine want the security marriage will provide in allowing them both to be adoptive