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Delay tactics slow Texas House on anti-gay marriage bill as key deadline looms
A key conservative push to defy the U.S. Supreme Court if same-sex marriage is legalized hangs in the balance as work in the Texas House has slowed to a crawl – even as the chamber’s last chance to pass the bill looms.
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Dell urges Texas lawmakers to stop anti-gay marriage bill
The computer maker released a statement Wednesday saying it has let Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott know that the Round Rock-based company considers diversity a “business imperative.”
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Dear Texas: You can’t obey the U.S. Supreme Court only when its rulings please you
For those who marvel at the pathetic depths to which the 84th Texas Legislature has regularly descended, prepare to marvel again…
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Owner of NYC gay-oriented hotel lashes out at ‘gay extremists’ over backlash for Ted Cruz dinner
n owner of a gay-oriented New York City hotel lashed out at “extremists” who have urged a boycott over a dinner invitation to Sen. Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican and a vocal opponent of same-sex marriage.
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GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina softens stance on same-sex marriage
Fiorina told a blogger Monday that she didn’t support a Constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, but in 2010, however, Fiorina supported such an amendment.
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Texas Republicans could take new stand on same-sex marriage
Nearly all Republicans in the Texas House are sponsoring a bill that would prohibit state and local officials from issuing same-sex marriage licenses regardless of how the Supreme Court rules.
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Texas Senate OKs bill allowing clergy to refuse same-sex marriages
The Texas state Senate has voted to allow clergy members to refuse performing marriages that violate their beliefs.
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Marriage News Watch: May 11, 2015
Texas lawmakers vote this week on whether the state should officially defy the Supreme Court’s ruling on marriage, while Alabama and Minnesota are debating bills to undermine marriage equality.
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Texas lawmakers to vote on two anti-LGBT bills this week
The most-watched proposal would bar state, county and local officials from issuing or enforcing a same-sex marriage license, and prevent recognition of same-sex marriages performed in other states.
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Castro’s daughter sponsors blessing of Cuban same-sex couples
Nearly two dozen gay couples held hands or embraced, some crying, as Protestant clergymen from the U.S. and Canada blessed them as part of official ceremonies leading up to the Global Day against Homophobia on May 17.