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High Colombian official urges courts to OK same-sex marriage
A top Cabinet minister on Sunday urged Colombia’s courts to legalize same-sex marriage and support the right of such couples to adopt.
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U.S. Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage ruling likely to have global impact
The landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of same-sex marriages has no legal force outside the United States, but gay rights activists in many parts of the world believe the court ruling will help advance their cause.
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New York governor Andrew Cuomo officiates gay couple’s wedding, his first
Cuomo made use of some newly granted powers to officiate at his first wedding, that of a same-sex couple who wed outside a Greenwich Village bar where police harassment of patrons sparked three days of riots in 1969.
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Lead plaintiff in same-sex marriage case gets hero’s welcome at Cincinnati pride
A Cincinnati native who was the lead plaintiff in the historic U.S. Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage has come back to his hometown to celebrate.
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Supreme Court decisions highlight political challenges facing GOP
For the second time in two days, the Supreme Court struck at the heart of the Republican Party platform. Yet the response to Friday’s same-sex marriage ruling was mild in comparison with the outrage that followed the court’s decision Thursday to uphold President Barack Obama’s health care law.
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Long struggle, quick endgame as marriage equality becomes law of the land
In 1996, President Bill Clinton signed a law stipulating that the federal government would not recognize marriages of same-sex couples. On Friday night, the White House was illuminated in rainbow colors to celebrate the Supreme Court ruling legalizing such marriages in every state of the nation. For gay rights activists, the two decades between those moments were marked by a dramatic mix of setbacks and victories.
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Liberal justices prevail in this year’s high-profile U.S. Supreme Court cases
With a notable paucity of dissents and not a single word to say about same-sex marriage, health care or housing discrimination, the court’s liberal justices prevailed in almost every important case in recent months.
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‘Baker v. Nelson’ same-sex marriage pioneer hails U.S. Supreme Court ruling
A Minnesota man who fought for his own same-sex marriage more than 40 years ago is celebrating the landmark Supreme Court ruling that said gay couples can marry anywhere in the country.
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Republican White House hopefuls deride same-sex marriage ruling
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee told conservatives that the Supreme Court tried to “unwrite the laws of nature and the laws of nature’s God” when it legalized same-sex marriage across the nation.
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Evan Wolfson: ‘I ALWAYS believed we would win, but I didn’t expect to cry.’
The Supreme Court’s ruling on Friday, that the Constitution guarantees gay people the freedom to marry, is a monumental and inspiring victory. America got it right. Love won. We all did. … And now we must get back to work.