Senate candidate says same-sex couples should be able to make joint campaign gifts
Source: Los Angeles Times
While they await a Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage, gay rights advocates are taking their fight to a new arena: campaign finance law.
A Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts who supports gay marriage has asked the Federal Election Commission to determine whether gay couples have the right to make joint contributions to political candidates.
In a request for an advisory opinion Friday, attorneys for state Rep. Dan Winslow, a moderate Republican running in a special election to fill the seat vacated by Secretary of State John F. Kerry, asked the commission whether gay couples could donate to his campaign with a single check, as heterosexual married couples were allowed to do.
... "If there were any doubt as to the necessity of the Supreme Court deciding the constitutionality of DOMA, situations like this prove it," said Alan Morrison, a George Washington University Law School professor who filed an amicus brief with the court arguing that the law has undermined federal ethics and tax statutes. "Things like this are coming up in every agency, all the time."
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