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Gay Marriage’s Moment
Remember the AIDS crisis? If you lived in a big American city during its spread, you were witness to constant sorrow and countless examples of gay people treated as second-class citizens.
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Texas Supreme Court upholds divorce of same-sex couple
The Texas Supreme Court has upheld the Austin divorce of a same-sex couple, rejecting challenges in a state where same-sex marriage remains outlawed.
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NOM will again ask GOP presidential candidates to sign anti-gay marriage pledge
The National Organization for Marriage will again ask candidates seeking the Republican presidential nomination to sign a pledge promising to support a constitutional amendment defining marriage as being between one man and one woman.
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The seven minutes in 2000 when the Clinton White House considered endorsing marriage equality
An aide quickly dismissed the proposal, part of a larger debate reported on for the first time by BuzzFeed News. It would be another 11 years before Bill Clinton endorsed marriage equality.
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Southern Baptist leader vows never to officiate same-sex union
The president of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination vowed never to officiate a gay union, and the Southern Baptist Convention called on the Supreme Court not to declare same-sex marriage a constitutional right.
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U.S. ambassador praises Australian gay rights progress, despite same-sex marriage ban
John Berry, who is openly gay, told Australian marriage equality supporters that although their nation continues to ban same-sex marriage, it remains more progressive than his own in protecting the rights of gay employees.
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1. The president doesn’t get to veto Supreme Court rulings. 2. Rick Santorum will never be president.
With the Supreme Court due to rule on marriage any day now, Presidential “candidate” Rick Santorum says he would fight back against a pro-equality ruling. So do couples need to worry about the possibility that Santorum could stop them from marrying?
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Latest Arkansas ruling throws new wrinkle in state’s same-sex marriage debate
A judge’s ruling that Arkansas must recognize more than 500 same-sex marriages that were performed in state last year throws a new wrinkle in a legal fight that’s been sitting before the state Supreme Court for more than a year now.
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Mexico Supreme Court declares same-sex marriage bans unconstitutional
The court’s ruling is considered a “jurisprudential thesis” and does not invalidate any state laws, meaning gay couples denied the right to wed would have to turn to the courts individually.
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Mexico: State of Chihuahua will no longer prevent same-sex couples from marrying
The governor of the Mexican state of Chihuahua on Thursday announced his administration would no longer prevent same-sex couples from marrying.