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Mayoral candidate faults church in firing of gay teacher
Jim Kenney says church officials should explain why teacher Margie Winters and her wife are threats to society. Winters lost her job last month as religious instruction director at suburban Waldron Mercy Academy after telling the school about her out-of-state marriage.
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Tennessee attorney general drops same-sex divorce case
On Friday, the office sent a brief to the Tennessee Court of Appeals making clear that it won’t stand in the way of Frederick Michael Borman and Larry Kevin Pyles-Borman getting a divorce.
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County clerk in East Texas resigns over gay marriage ruling
Rusk County Clerk Joyce Lewis-Kugle wrote that she could not in good conscience issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
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Maricopa County attorney sidesteps same-sex adoption fight
The decision by Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery to farm out the services he’s legally required to provide lets him avoid backtracking on a policy of denying those services to same-sex couples after the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on gay marriage.
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Bevin: Kentucky should stop issuing marriage licenses
Matt Bevin said in a news release the government should be out of the marriage business altogether, saying two consenting adults should not need to ask for permission to enter into a contractual relationship.
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Kentucky clerk says governor told him to issue licenses or resign
Casey Davis said he would go to jail before he resigned and vowed he would not issue any marriage licenses in Casey County after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriages in all 50 states.
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American Samoa questions gay marriage validity in territory
American Samoa stands as the only U.S. territory to hold out against the recent Supreme Court ruling that legalized gay marriage. But as the Pacific island’s attorney general reviews the decision, legal observers and gay rights advocates are saying it should go into effect immediately.
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Toledo judge takes over weddings after gay couple turned away
Toledo Municipal Judge Michelle Wagner says she doesn’t want to see a same-sex couple go before a judge who is not interested in conducting the ceremony. She said it is her privilege to perform those weddings.
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Gay rights leader, Kansas governor argue over marriage order
A prominent Kansas gay rights advocate on Thursday accused Republican Gov. Sam Brownback of trying to hinder same-sex couples, even as lawyers for the state said in a legal filing that Kansas has been prompt in complying with the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage.
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Opinion: Judges can’t refuse to perform same-sex marriages
Nebraska judges and court officials cannot refuse to perform same-sex marriages unless they refuse to perform all marriages, according to a state judicial ethics group.