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Hawaii legislature won’t call special session to consider gay marriage
HONOLULU — Hawaii House and Senate lawmakers say they don’t have enough support to call a special session to consider whether to legalize gay marriage.
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Ark. AG rejects proposed language for gay marriage ballot petition
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas’ attorney general said Tuesday that a proposed petition that would put a gay-marriage ballot question before voters in 2016 was ambiguous in a number of places and would need to be reworked before its backers can collect signatures.
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First same-sex civil union legalized in Colombia
BOGOTA, Colombia — A Colombian judge has for the first time legalized the civil union of a same-sex couple.
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Alabama government agency prays against gay marriage
The Alabama Public Service Commission kicked off a meeting on power rates last week with a prayer against gay marriage and reproductive rights. John Delwin Jordan, who was at the meeting to testify on behalf of the Prattville Tea Party, opened up the meeting in prayer after receiving a laudatory introduction by Twinkle Cavanaugh, the head of the PSC.
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Ore. gay marriage supporters to begin collecting petition signatures
PORTLAND, Ore. — Organizers of the effort to make same-sex marriage legal in Oregon say they will start collecting petition signatures Friday.
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LGBT advocacy groups team up to make gay marriage in N.J. a priority
ASBURY PARK, N.J. — Several national groups that support recognizing same-sex marriage are teaming up in New Jersey, saying that the state is primed to allow gay couples to wed.
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Gay couples issued marriage licenses as Pa. county defines ban
NORRISTOWN, Pa. — At least five same-sex couples obtained marriage licenses Wednesday in a suburban Philadelphia county that is defying a state ban on such unions.
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LGBT Brazilians greet Pope with ‘kiss-in’ to protest stance on gay marriage
RIO DE JANEIRO — LGBT Brazilians on Monday greeted Pope Francis with a “beijaco,” or kiss-in, upon the pontiff’s arrival in Rio de Janeiro as protest of the Catholic Church’s stance on same-sex marriage.
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Calif. Supreme Court rejects San Diego clerk’s bid to stop gay marriages
SAN FRANCISCO — California’s highest court is again refusing to immediately stop the state from sanctioning same-sex marriages.
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Pa. county officials vow to issue marriage license to any gay couple who seeks one
PHILADELPHIA — Officials in the third-largest county in Pennsylvania have agreed to issue same-sex marriage licenses, despite a state law that bans the practice.