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Group asks Supreme Court to reinstate block on Nevada same-sex marriages
LAS VEGAS — A group fighting to keep Nevada’s state ban on same-sex marriage wants the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate a short-lived ruling that blocked weddings from taking place.
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Celebration becomes sadness as same-sex marriage stalls in Idaho
BOISE, Idaho — Several same-sex couples, their families and friends gathered at the Ada County Courthouse in Boise Wednesday morning, eager to be first in line for marriage licenses after a federal appellate court rejected Idaho’s ban on gay marriages. But their mood turned from joyous to devastated in a heartbeat as the county clerk…
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Same-sex marriages on hold in Nevada after Supreme Court justice issues stay
LAS VEGAS — Same-sex couples are being told not to line up Wednesday at the marriage bureau in Las Vegas, after the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily blocked gay marriage in Idaho and Nevada. Clark County Clerk Diane Alba tells The Associated Press it’s clear at least for now that she can’t issue gender-neutral marriage licenses in the self-proclaimed…
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Kennedy orders temporary stay in Idaho, Nevada same-sex marriage rulings
WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on Wednesday temporarily blocked an appeals court ruling that declared gay marriage legal in Idaho and Nevada. Kennedy’s order came a little more than an hour after Idaho filed an emergency request for an immediate stay and about 10 minutes before the state said that state and…
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Same-sex marriage focus shifts back to district, federal appeals courts
WASHINGTON — A day after the Supreme Court passed on gay marriage appeals and effectively made same-sex marriage legal in 30 states, the federal appeals court in San Francisco struck down gay marriage bans in a decision that could soon allow gay and lesbian couples to wed in five more states.
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Fischer: Gay marriage decision the ‘Roe v. Wade of sodomy based marriage’
To say that anti-gay Religious Right groups are furious with the U.S. Supreme Court would be a massive understatement and nobody was more livid about it than the American Family Association’s Bryan Fischer, who spent two segments of his radio program today blasting the Court for having now issued the “de facto Roe vs. Wade of sodomy-based…
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NOM vows to ‘devote all our energy and resources’ to fight same-sex marriage
Brian Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage, reacts to Monday’s decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to not hear appeals in same-sex marriage cases from five states.
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How marriage equality is unfolding in 11 states affected by Supreme Court action
The Supreme Court on Monday denied appeals from Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin in which those states sought to prohibit same-sex marriage. The decision also means couples in six other states – Colorado, Kansas, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia and Wyoming – should be able to get married soon.
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Tenth Circuit lifts stay: Same-sex marriage now legal in Utah, Oklahoma
DENVER — A federal appeals court has lifted its stay in gay marriage cases in Oklahoma and Utah, clearing the way for same-sex nuptials to begin in both states. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver lifted the stays Monday after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up the matter. The high court’s decision effectively means gay marriage…
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Supreme Court action paves the way for marriage equality in 11 more states
WASHINGTON — In a surprise development, the U.S. Supreme Court today announced it would not accept for review any of the seven appeals on same-sex marriage bans from five states. The action means that the stays placed on lower court decisions in all five states –decisions that struck down bans on marriage for same-sex couples—are immediately…