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Ariz. mining town puts civil unions on hold while it tweaks law
PHOENIX — The City Council in the southern Arizona community of Bisbee will rewrite a recently enacted civil union ordinance after being threatened with a lawsuit by the state Attorney General’s office, which said the ordinance ran afoul of a state ban on same-sex marriage.
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GOP dumps plan for more ‘inclusive’ party, reaffirms anti-gay marriage platform
Just weeks after releasing a “turnaround plan” focused on building a more inclusive GOP aimed at attract minority voters, including “welcoming” attitudes on gay rights, members of the Republican National Committee on Friday voted unanimously to reaffirm language in the GOP platform defining marriage “as the union of one man and one woman.”
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Minn. gay marriage opponents take their case to rural communities
HINCKLEY, Minn. — The chief political group opposed to legalizing same-sex marriage in Minnesota is taking its case on the road with a series of rallies across the state.
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France puts landmark marriage equality bill on track to become law by summer
PARIS — The French Senate voted Friday to legalize same-sex marriage in France, putting a landmark bill on track to become law by summer.
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Ban me from my partner’s bedside? You’d have to arrest me too!
Marriage Equality is about being able to hold the hand of the person you love when they are sick and need your love and compassion the most. It’s about making decisions that all people will eventually have to make about life and death, and who you want with you at the end of your life. Two men have all the legal papers they were told they needed. They followed the law, and still, one man is in a hospital bed while his life partner is restrained and dragged from the premises.
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Keyes: Gays don’t have a right to marry, just as we don’t have a right to pick our nose and eat boogers
Alan Keyes recently delivered a speech Keyes at a college in Michigan, where he made the case that the government can’t recognize gay rights, reproductive rights and the separation of church and state, just as we shouldn’t recognize the right of a person to pick their nose and eat their boogers.
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Delaware state lawmakers introduce marriage equality legislation
WILMINGTON, Del. — Delaware lawmakers introduced a bill Thursday that would legalize same-sex marriage in the state, with plans to have it signed into law by the end of June.
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NOM argues in Maine that it doesn’t have to reveal donor list
PORTLAND, Maine — A lawyer for the leading national advocacy group opposing same-sex marriage told Maine’s highest court Thursday that the First Amendment shields it from having to reveal its donor list to state officials.
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Nevada state Senate committee amends, passes marriage equality bill
CARSON CITY, Nev. — A Nevada Senate committee has taken a big step to not only repeal the state’s heterosexual definition of marriage but to recognize all marriages “regardless of gender.”
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Republicans disagree over election comeback plan
Some U.S. Republican leaders on Wednesday pushed back against a new comeback plan after a poor showing in last year’s elections, saying the party shouldn’t give up its conservative stance on sensitive but core issues like immigration and gay marriage.