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Pennsylvania’s infamously anti-gay politician is running scared this election cycle
Daryl Metcalfe has a long history of homophobia, but he’s sunk to a new low. Now he’s attacking his gay opponent’s husband.
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Pa. Democrats walk out of hearing to impeach AG for supporting gay marriage
HARRISBURG, Pa. — A conservative Republican lawmaker who wants to impeach Democratic state Attorney General Kathleen Kane presided over nearly two hours of testimony sympathetic to his cause Tuesday after Democrats on the House State Government Committee walked out in protest.
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Growing number of attorneys general refusing to defend gay marriage bans
NORFOLK, Va. — The day after a federal judge struck down Virginia’s gay-marriage ban, state Attorney General Mark Herring wasn’t vowing to appeal or insisting his state’s law was sound.
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Pa. governor, AG seek to be dismissed from another same-sex marriage case
PHILADELPHIA — Attorney General Kathleen Kane is seeking to be dismissed from a federal lawsuit pending in Philadelphia that challenges Pennsylvania’s same-sex marriage ban.
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Defendants reshuffled in lawsuit challenging Pa. same-sex marriage ban
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Lawyers on both sides of a court challenge to the state’s gay marriage ban have agreed to dismiss Republican Gov. Tom Corbett and Democratic Attorney General Kathleen Kane as defendants.
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Pa. attorney general Kathleen Kane scolds lawmaker seeking impeachment
HARRISBURG, Pa. — A plan by a conservative western Pennsylvania state lawmaker to seek impeachment of the state attorney general over her handling of a gay marriage lawsuit drew a stern reply Tuesday from the top prosecutor, who called his claims “loud, arrogant and misguided.”
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No trial date set yet in Pa. same-sex marriage case
HARRISBURG, Pa. — A federal judge said Wednesday he would not set a trial date just yet for a lawsuit challenging Pennsylvania’s ban on same-sex marriage.
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Pa. officials ask to be released as defendants in same-sex marriage lawsuit
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s governor, its chief legal officer and its health secretary are asking to be released as defendants in a federal lawsuit seeking to overturn the state’s gay-marriage ban.
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Pa. county appeals ruling banning marriage licenses for same-sex couples
PHILADELPHIA — Montgomery County on Tuesday appealed a state court order to stop issuing same-sex marriage licenses, the latest volley in Pennsylvania’s fast-paced battle over gay marriage.
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Pa. governor hires lawyer to defend same-sex marriage ban in federal court
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Republican Gov. Tom Corbett’s office announced Thursday it has hired a well-known lawyer from outside the government to lead his defense of the state’s same-sex marriage ban in a federal lawsuit.