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A boost for same-sex marriage: Supreme Court justices question federal law
WASHINGTON — Concluding two days of intense debate, the Supreme Court signaled Wednesday it could give a boost to same-sex marriage by striking down the federal law that denies legally married gay spouses a wide range of benefits offered to other couples.
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Arkansas House approves anti-gay marriage resolution
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — As the U.S. Supreme Court considers two marriage equality cases, the Arkansas House of Representatives has passed a resolution reaffirming opposition to allowing same-sex couples to marry.
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Listen: U.S. Supreme Court releases audio of DOMA hearing
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has released the audio and transcript of Wednesday’s hearing challenging the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal law that prevents legally married gay couples from receiving a range of federal benefits that go to married people.
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‘Edie, Edie,’ chants a jubilant crowd as Windsor emerges from Supreme Court
WASHINGTON — Edith Windsor emerged from the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to loud cheers from marriage equality supporters gathered outside the high court, on this second day of back-to-back same-sex marriage cases.
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High court skeptical of federal marriage law that denies benefits to gay couples
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court is indicating it could strike down the federal law that prevents legally married gay couples from receiving a range of federal benefits for married people.
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Day in pictures: Marriage supporters rally as high court hears DOMA challenge
In the second of back-to-back same-sex marriage cases, the U.S. Supreme Court turned Wednesday to a constitutional challenge to the law that prevents legally married gay Americans from collecting federal benefits generally available to straight married couples.
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Day 2 at the high court: Justices to hear challenge to Defense of Marriage Act
WASHINGTON — In the second of back-to-back gay marriage cases, the Supreme Court is turning to a constitutional challenge to the law that prevents legally married gay Americans from collecting federal benefits generally available to straight married couples.
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Same-sex military families look to high court to remedy DOMA’s injustice
As the Supreme Court prepares to consider the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, gay marriage advocates are focusing attention on the way they say the law dishonors gay service members and their spouses, who are denied survivor payments, plots in veterans’ cemeteries, base housing and a host of other benefits that have been available to opposite-sex military couples for generations.
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Participants to history: Plaintiffs depart for historic day at Supreme Court
WASHINGTON — Human Rights Campaign president Chad Griffin and plaintiffs in the U.S. Supreme Court challenge to Proposition 8, California’s ban on same-sex marriage, met with reporters earlier this morning, before departing for the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Ten years to the day since Lawrence v. Texas, same-sex marriage reaches the high court
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is wading into the fight over same-sex marriage at a time when public opinion is shifting rapidly in favor of permitting gay and lesbian couples to wed, but 40 states don’t allow it.