Marriage Equality

Same-sex marriage, also known as gay marriage, is marriage between two persons of the same biological sex or gender identity. Legal recognition of same-sex marriage is sometimes referred to as marriage equality, particularly by advocates and supporters.

Since 2000, eleven countries (Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, South Africa, Sweden) have legalized same-sex marriage, as have parts of Brazil and Mexico. In 2013, bills to legalize same-sex marriage were passed in Uruguay, New Zealand and France, although those laws have not yet taken effect.

In the United States, same-sex marriage is legal in nine states (Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont and Washington), and in the District of Columbia. (Same-sex marriage will become legal in Delaware on July 1, 2013, and in Rhode Island on August 1, 2013.)

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Andrew Wilfahrt

Parents of gay soldier crusade against Minnesota gay marriage ban

Sunday, July 3, 2011
From CNN comes this story of Cpl. Andrew Wilfahrt, 31, a U.S. Army soldier killed in Afghanistan earlier this year -- his parents have taken up the cause of gay rights, and are fighting against the proposed anti-gay marriage amendment in Minnesota. [ Read more → ]
Lincoln Chafee

Rhode Island governor signs ‘flawed’ same-sex civil unions bill into law

Saturday, July 2, 2011
Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee on Saturday signed into law legislation legalizing civil unions for same-sex couples. [ Read more → ]
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Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel wants Illinois to legalize same-sex marriage

Saturday, July 2, 2011
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel this week said he hops the state of Illinois will follow New York and legalize marriage for same-sex couples. [ Read more → ]
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Marriage, civil unions, Montana GOP, and Communion

Friday, July 1, 2011
Marriage, civil unions, Montana GOP, and Communion -- What do all of these things have in common? The answer in my head is this: injustice. [ Read more → ]
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MN campaign board says finance disclosure law applies to NOM donors

Thursday, June 30, 2011
The Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board on Thursday ruled that corporate donations to groups advocating for or against a constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage must be disclosed. [ Read more → ]
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Seven gay couples sue NJ demanding civil unions be recognized as marriage

Thursday, June 30, 2011
Seven gay and lesbian couples have joined with LGBT advocacy groups Garden State Equality and Lambda Legal on Wednesday in filing suit against the state of New Jersey demanding their partnerships be recognized as marriages, not as civil unions. [ Read more → ]
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Maine marriage equality advocates launch campaign to put issue on 2012 ballot

Thursday, June 30, 2011
More than 150 LGBT advocates gathered on the steps of the Lewiston, Maine, City Hall on Thursday to announce a campaign to put the issue of marriage equality back on the ballot in 2012, just three years after it was rejected by Maine voters. [ Read more → ]
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The National Organization for Marriage had a good run, but ‘the jig is up’

Wednesday, June 29, 2011
The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) had a good run. The group, led by anti-gay activists Maggie Gallagher and Brian Brown, has been able to demagogue and exploit existing anti-LGBT prejudice and foment new fears by lying about the allegedly negative impact marriage equality would have on civilization. [ Read more → ]
brown-sharpton

Rev. Al Sharpton takes on NOM’s Brian Brown on marriage equality

Tuesday, June 28, 2011
The Rev. Al Sharpton gets fired up debating National Organization for Marriage President Brian Brown, on marriage equality opponent. [ Read more → ]
Barbara MacEwen

Town clerk balks at issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples

Tuesday, June 28, 2011
As marriage equality becomes law across New York state on July 24, same-sex couples looking to wed in Volney, N.Y. will likely encounter a disapproving town clerk. [ Read more → ]
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Michele Bachmann confuses Chris Wallace with her conflicting positions on marriage equality

Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Michele Bachmann believes marriage is between a man and a woman. She believes states, like New York, have the right to decide that marriage is not between a man and a woman. She believes that marriage should be decided by the individual states. She believes that the federal government should ban same-sex marriages. [ Read more → ]
Edward Peters

Vatican adviser: Cuomo should be denied Communion for supporting gay marriage

Tuesday, June 28, 2011
A theology professor in Detroit and senior adviser to the Vatican has blasted New York's Catholic governor, Andrew Cuomo, for supporting marriage equality, and suggested that Cuomo be punished by being denied Holy Communion. [ Read more → ]
Ted Baehr

WorldNetDaily: Constitution subject to law of God, therefore, marriage equality is criminal

Tuesday, June 28, 2011
From WorldNetDaily, Ted Baehr writes that New York’s marriage equality law is in violation of the Constitution because the Constitution is supposed to conform to “God’s law.” [ Read more → ]
David Frum

Former Bush adviser: ‘I was wrong about same-sex marriage’

Tuesday, June 28, 2011
David Frum, a staunch conservative who once said that those who support same-sex marriage “are hastening a process of social dissolution that has already brought misery to untold millions of people," now supports marriage equality. [ Read more → ]
Homophobia

More messages of divisiveness, as backlash from NY marriage equality vote continues

Monday, June 27, 2011
The outrage from so-called Christians and their politically aligned organizations and allies that not only decry the courage of the lawmakers in New York, but so completely demonize LGBT persons so as to make mockery of the word "humanity." [ Read more → ]
Linda Harvey

Linda Harvey: Marriage equality will lead to ‘a perpetual pansexual pagan party’

Monday, June 27, 2011
More venom from Linda Harvey, founder of Columbus, Ohio-based Mission America — and whose life’s work is dedicated to hating the gays — warns (or prays for) all the evils to come as a result of the passage of marriage equality in New York. [ Read more → ]
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Proposition 8 proponents appeal federal judge’s refusal to overturn Prop 8 ruling

Monday, June 27, 2011
Proposition 8 proponents filed an appeal challenging Chief U.S. District Judge James Ware’s June 14 decision to uphold last year’s ruling that the law banning same-sex marriage in California was unconstitutional. [ Read more → ]
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Following New York victory, will marriage equality spread to other states?

Monday, June 27, 2011
We did it! New York Marriages can start in less than a month. That success gives us new leverage in the 44 states that have yet to enact marriage equality. We also won victories this week in Wisconsin and Maryland... [ Read more → ]
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New York Times to President Obama: Time to evolve on marriage equality

Monday, June 27, 2011
An editorial appearing in The New York Times on Sunday calls on President Barack Obama to evolve on marriage equality. [ Read more → ]
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie: ‘I’m not a fan of same-sex marriage’

Sunday, June 26, 2011
Appearing on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie reaffirmed his opposition to same-sex marriage, and "that will be the view of our state" -- as long as he is the Governor. [ Read more → ]
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