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Calif. AG says San Diego clerk’s petition to block gay marriage is ‘improper’
SAN FRANCISCO — California Attorney General Kamala Harris says the elected clerk of San Diego County is improperly using the state’s legal system to try to prevent same-sex couples from getting married.
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U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz: Pray to stop the ‘assault on marriage’
The Christian Broadcasting Network has released more footage from the recent Religious Right summit in Iowa organized by David Lane and featuring speakers like U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.).
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Calif. Supreme Court rejects San Diego clerk’s bid to stop gay marriages
SAN FRANCISCO — California’s highest court is again refusing to immediately stop the state from sanctioning same-sex marriages.
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Calif. AG tells court to reject San Diego clerk’s bid to stop same-sex marriages
SAN FRANCISCO — California’s chief law enforcement officer urged the state Supreme Court on Monday to refuse once again to stop same-sex marriages while the justices consider a legal bid to revive Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot measure that banned gay nuptials.
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Should states’ rights decide gay rights? Or any rights?
The citizens of each state want what they want. The people with the money have the power, and they want to mold their cities and towns to their own little standards, with their own little rules, their own little prejudices, and their own little innuendos. Those who struggle to keep their heads above the water have no money which means they have no power and their voice is very rarely, if ever, heard. They are considered “the other,” and the laws are never structured to their benefit … LGBTQ citizens fall into “the other” category.
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San Diego County clerk seeks end to Calif. gay marriages
SAN FRANCISCO — A San Diego County government official in charge of issuing marriage licenses asked the state Supreme Court on Friday to stop gay marriages.
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Calif. Supreme Court rejects emergency plea to stop gay marriages
SAN FRANCISCO — The California Supreme Court is refusing to order the state to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
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Not giving up: Opponents ask California Supreme Court to stop gay weddings
SAN FRANCISCO — Opponents of same-sex marriage demanded Friday that the California Supreme Court immediately halt the practice that recently resumed in the nation’s largest state after a nine-year legal battle.
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Supreme Court’s gay marriage ruling already in use in other cases
WASHINGTON — When the U.S. Supreme Court struck down part of an anti-gay marriage law, Justice Anthony Kennedy took pains in his majority opinion to say the ruling applied only to legally married same-sex couples seeking benefits from the federal government.
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Polls: Americans largely unfazed by Supreme Court rulings on gay marriage
Two new polls released this week show a majority of Americans support marriage equality for same-sex couples, and are largely unfazed by last week’s landmark Supreme Court decisions that struck down a key provision of the Defense of Marriage Act, and that cleared the way for same-sex marriage to resume in California.