CONCORD, N.H. -- New Hampshire Republican State Representative David Bates on Tuesday led a rally outside the capitol building of more than 200 people interested in repealing New Hampshire's same-sex marriage law and replace it with civil unions for any unmarried adults, including relatives.

SAN FRANCISCO -- On the same day that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals made its big ruling affirming the unconstitutionality of California's Proposition 8, the panel rejected an attempt by Imperial County to intervene in the case.

WASHINGTON -- White House Press Secretary Jay Carney faced a flurry of questions Tuesday about President Obama’s evolving position on same-sex marriage and his reaction to the court decision that California’s Proposition 8 is unconstitutional.

In 1994, Mitt Romney called for “full equality” for LGBT Americans, but this afternoon the Republican presidential candidate condemned the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal’s ruling against Proposition 8.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Proposition 8 is unconstitutional, said a divided federal appeals court panel in San Francisco on Tuesday. The highly anticipated ruling also rejected a motion from Proposition 8 proponents to vacate the district court ruling of former Chief Judge Vaughn Walker because he had not disclosed, prior to presiding over Perry v. Schwarzenegger, that he was in a relationship with a man.

CONCORD, N.H. — A New Hampshire lawmaker is waging a one-man effort to repeal the state's same-sex marriage law, and has launched a direct mail campaign to garner support of House Bill 437, which would restore "traditional marriage" between a man and a woman in the state.

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- A House panel in the Washington state legislature on Monday advanced its version of a bill to legalize same-sex marriage, placing Washington state just steps from becoming the seventh U.S. state to offer full marriage equality.

Another crazy week, with news in the Prop 8 case and major advances in Washington, Maryland, and New Jersey. And yet another court has slapped down NOM's attempts to hide their donors. This week's Marriage News Watch is here...

TRENTON, N.J. — The Democratic leadership in the New Jersey state legislature on Monday announced that measures to legalize same-sex marriage will advance to floor votes by both chambers -- the majority leadership announced that the Senate had scheduled a vote for Feb. 13, followed by a vote in the House vote three days later.

SAN FRANCISCO -- The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday signaled the court is ready to rule on the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the 2008 voter approved ballot measure that banned same-sex marriage in California.

One of the most prominent anti-gay groups currently working to defeat proposed marriage equality legislation in the state of Washington is the Family Policy Institute of Washington (FPIW). Led by [...]

Jeremy Hooper at Good As You calls our attention to Sunday's televised "debate" on same-sex marriage between Freedom to Marry President Evan Wolfson and National Organization for Marriage President Brian Brown.

In Maryland, 14-year-old Sarah Crank asked lawmakers to vote "no" on marriage equality because "people have the choice to be gay" and she doesn't want to be affected by their choice. But in New Jersey this week, 15-year-old Madison Galluccio testified she should not be forced to feel like an outcast because her parents are gay.

Rick Santorum told a gay man in Fulton, Missouri Friday afternoon that he didn’t deserve the “privilege” of marriage because his same-sex relationship does not “benefit” society in the same way that opposite-sex marriage does.

TRENTON, N.J. -- A committee in the New Jersey State Assembly on Thursday approved a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage, setting the stage for a showdown between the Democratic-controlled state legislature, and Republican Gov. Chris Christie, who has vowed to veto the measure.