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The owners of an Oregon bakery at the center of a complaint for refusing to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple are speaking out, and say gay rights activists used “militant” and “mean-spirited, mafia-style tactics” to shut down their business.

BATON ROUGE, La. — The Louisiana National Guard won’t process requests from same-sex couples seeking benefits, joining Texas in the refusal because of the states’ bans on gay marriage.

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Wednesday it will stop enforcing a law that blocks benefits to partners of military veterans in same-sex marriages.

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — A New Mexico judge has upheld a ruling that a northern New Mexico county must begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Most Ohio voters favor a law that would protect gay and lesbian people from on-the-job discrimination, but they’re not so sure about extending marriage rights to same-sex couples.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo has given a former Republican senator who was a key to the legalization of gay marriage a $90,000-a-year job in a move a religious conservative group called payback for the critical vote.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California prison officials have confirmed that inmates can get married to someone of the same sex under certain conditions.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Pennsylvania judge is promising to rule quickly on whether a county clerk should be ordered to stop handing out marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis mayor R.T. Rybak is hitting the road to promote the state’s new marriage equality law.

DENVER — Police in Denver are investigating an assault on a gay man over the holiday weekend in what the victim said was an anti-gay hate crime.