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Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum showed his campaign still has life by sweeping Tuesday’s GOP contests in Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado.

CONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire Republican State Representative David Bates on Tuesday led a rally outside the capitol building of more than 200 people interested in repealing New Hampshire’s same-sex marriage law and replace it with civil unions for any unmarried adults, including relatives.

SAN FRANCISCO — On the same day that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals made its big ruling affirming the unconstitutionality of California’s Proposition 8, the panel rejected an attempt by Imperial County to intervene in the case.

WASHINGTON — White House Press Secretary Jay Carney faced a flurry of questions Tuesday about President Obama’s evolving position on same-sex marriage and his reaction to the court decision that California’s Proposition 8 is unconstitutional.

SAN FRANCISCO — Proposition 8 is unconstitutional, said a divided federal appeals court panel in San Francisco on Tuesday. The highly anticipated ruling also rejected a motion from Proposition 8 proponents to vacate the district court ruling of former Chief Judge Vaughn Walker because he had not disclosed, prior to presiding over Perry v. Schwarzenegger, that he was in a relationship with a man.

Uganda’s infamous Anti-Homosexuality Bill — dubbed the “Kill the Gays” bill — was reintroduced in parliament on Tuesday. The original version of the bill, first introduced in 2009, included harsh penalties, including the the death penalty for some homosexual acts.

CONCORD, N.H. — A New Hampshire lawmaker is waging a one-man effort to repeal the state’s same-sex marriage law, and has launched a direct mail campaign to garner support of House Bill 437, which would restore “traditional marriage” between a man and a woman in the state.

OLYMPIA, Wash. — A House panel in the Washington state legislature on Monday advanced its version of a bill to legalize same-sex marriage, placing Washington state just steps from becoming the seventh U.S. state to offer full marriage equality.

Another crazy week, with news in the Prop 8 case and major advances in Washington, Maryland, and New Jersey. And yet another court has slapped down NOM’s attempts to hide their donors. This week’s Marriage News Watch is here…

TRENTON, N.J. — The Democratic leadership in the New Jersey state legislature on Monday announced that measures to legalize same-sex marriage will advance to floor votes by both chambers — the majority leadership announced that the Senate had scheduled a vote for Feb. 13, followed by a vote in the House vote three days later.