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Ohio poll: Yes on anti-discrimination, mixed on marriage equality
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Most Ohio voters favor a law that would protect gay and lesbian people from on-the-job discrimination, but they’re not so sure about extending marriage rights to same-sex couples.
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Calif. prison officials to allow same-sex weddings for inmates
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California prison officials have confirmed that inmates can get married to someone of the same sex under certain conditions.
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Judge vows quick ruling in Pa. same-sex marriage case
HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Pennsylvania judge is promising to rule quickly on whether a county clerk should be ordered to stop handing out marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
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Minneapolis mayor goes on the road to promote marriage equality in Minn.
MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis mayor R.T. Rybak is hitting the road to promote the state’s new marriage equality law.
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Pa. AG gives governor’s lawyers OK to handle gay marriage case
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s attorney general has granted express written authority to lawyers for Gov. Tom Corbett to handle a case in which the Health Department wants to stop a suburban Philadelphia court clerk from giving marriage licenses to same-sex couples, according to a Tuesday court filing.
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Grant County will be 7th N.M. county to issue marriage licenses to gay couples
SILVER CITY, N.M. – The legal fight over gay marriage in New Mexico broadened Tuesday as a seventh county announced plans to start issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
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N.M. county clerk defies court order to issue marriage licenses to gay couples
SANTA FE, N.M. — The Los Alamos County clerk says she won’t issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples and will go to court to defend her decision.
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Texas, Mississippi National Guard refuse to process same-sex couples’ benefits
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas National Guard is refusing to process requests for benefits submitted by same-sex couples because of the state constitution’s definition of marriage.
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Judge sides with Ohio couple; orders gay man listed as married on death certificate
A recently deceased gay Ohio man must be listed on his death certificate as married and his husband must be listed as his spouse despite Ohio’s gay marriage ban, a federal judge ordered Tuesday.
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Same-sex couples accounted for 1 in 3 marriage licenses in Minn. in August
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Same-sex couples received nearly 1 in 3 marriage licenses issued in Minnesota since they were allowed to wed, The Associated Press found in a statewide survey of the first month’s impact of the new marriage equality law.