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Ark. AG rejects wording on same-sex marriage ballot proposal — again
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has again rejected the wording of a ballot proposal that would legalize gay marriage in Arkansas.
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Battle for marriage equality in Ind. makes for odd political pairings
INDIANAPOLIS — The battle over amending the Indiana Constitution to ban same-sex marriage is splitting pretty clearly along ideological lines but making for some odd pairings of otherwise partisan foes.
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Advocacy groups pitch lawmakers to override Christie’s marriage equality veto
TRENTON, N.J. — A new push by same-sex marriage advocates, led by New Jersey United for Marriage, an alliance of national and state LGBT and civil rights groups, are hoping to secure enough votes to override Gov. Chris Christie’s 2012 veto of a same-sex marriage bill before the current legislative term expires in January, 2014.
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Okla. governor tells National Guard to deny benefits to same-sex couples
OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin has ordered the National Guard to stop processing requests for military benefits for same-sex couples.
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Pa. county to appeal ruling that it stop issuing same-sex marriage licenses
HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court appears to be the next stop for a suburban Philadelphia county’s battle to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
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Catholic Church, conservative politicians attack Peru’s same-sex civil union bill
LIMA, Peru — The Catholic Church and leading conservative politicians have lunched an attack on a Peru lawmaker and his draft bill to legalize same-sex civil unions, calling it an attempt to “justify his [sexual] orientation.”
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Gay rights activists seek N.C. official willing to defy ban on same-sex marriage
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Activists seeking marriage rights for same-sex couples in North Carolina continued their search Monday for an official willing to flout state law and issue marriage licenses as an act of personal conscience as similar officials in New Mexico and Pennsylvania have done this summer.
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Biden at Iowa fundraiser: Marriage equality is ‘the civil rights of our day’
Vice-President Joe Biden, speaking at a high profile fundraiser in Iowa on Sunday, took the opportunity to trumpet his own accomplishments, including his support for same-sex marriage that many credit was the catalyst that helped President Barack Obama to finally “evolve” on the issue.
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Mexico’s first openly gay mayor does not support gay marriage, ‘not yet, anyway’
FRESNILLO, Zacatecas, Mexico — The first openly gay mayor in Mexico’s history has been sworn in at a ceremony in city of Fresnillo, but LGBT residents should not look to him for support in legalizing same-sex marriage in Zacatecas, a state known for cowboy boots, embossed belts and drug gang shootouts.
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WWII, Vietnam vets marry in veterans home first same-sex wedding
CHULA VISTA, Calif. – Two U.S. military veterans married this week when a senior living facility for military veterans held its first ever same-sex marriage.