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Or at least she wanted to. The Pentagon at first said her spouse, Lauren Azar, who had exchanged vows with Baldwin in 1998, could not take the flight. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi had to intervene before Azar was allowed on board. Funny how discrimination looks different when it happens to someone one knows. [...]

Gates to get him to let Azar on the flight. Not the solution to all our problems, but…. Of course, this doesn’t really solve all that much, considering DOMA prevents the federal government from recognizing any same-sex marriage for any reason. This is just a specific situation where the Speaker of the House wrote a [...]

Gates to get him to let Azar on the flight. Not the solution to all our problems, but…. Of course, this doesn’t really solve all that much, considering DOMA prevents the federal government from recognizing any same-sex marriage for any reason. This is just a specific situation where the Speaker of the House wrote a [...]

In appealing to [Defense Secretary Robert] Gates, Pelosi aides said their boss was simply asking the defense secretary to follow a precedent established by her predecessor, former Republican Rep. Pelosi told Gates that Hastert had allowed Baldwin to take Azar on a previous trip abroad. His only requirement was that Pelosi send him a letter [...]