WASHINGTON – Supporters and opponents of marriage equality are busy making final plans for large rallies in Washington, D.C., during the last week of March when the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments on two high-profile cases involving California’s Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).

WASHINGTON – The anti-gay hate group National Organization for Marriage is planning a march in Washington on the very day that the U.S. Supreme Court takes up California’s Proposition 8 case.

NOM’s “Marriage March 2013” is planned for Tuesday, March 26, but to date the details are sketchy. The “Marriage March 2013” Facebook page, set up on Jan. 22, has 68 likes.

On March 26, the U.S. Supreme Court will review the Prop 8 case, Hollingsworth v. Perry.

WASHINGTON – The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is calling on the Maryland Marriage Alliance to return the $10,000 donation of Michael Peroutka, an active white supremacist and secessionist sympathizer who was one of the three largest individual donors to the campaign against marriage equality in Maryland.

WASHINGTON – The Roman Catholic Church hierarchy funneled $2 million into entirely unsuccessful efforts to advance discrimination against LGBT people in the four marriage ballot states of Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington this election cycle.