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Red, marriage equality icons spread throughout social media
NEW YORK — Bud Light said it with beer cans and Martha Stewart with red velvet cake as companies and celebrities from Beyonce to George Takei joined millions of social media users in posting and tweaking a simple red logo in support of gay marriage.
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Listen: U.S. Supreme Court releases audio of DOMA hearing
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has released the audio and transcript of Wednesday’s hearing challenging the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal law that prevents legally married gay couples from receiving a range of federal benefits that go to married people.
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‘Edie, Edie,’ chants a jubilant crowd as Windsor emerges from Supreme Court
WASHINGTON — Edith Windsor emerged from the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to loud cheers from marriage equality supporters gathered outside the high court, on this second day of back-to-back same-sex marriage cases.
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High court skeptical of federal marriage law that denies benefits to gay couples
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court is indicating it could strike down the federal law that prevents legally married gay couples from receiving a range of federal benefits for married people.
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Day in pictures: Marriage supporters rally as high court hears DOMA challenge
In the second of back-to-back same-sex marriage cases, the U.S. Supreme Court turned Wednesday to a constitutional challenge to the law that prevents legally married gay Americans from collecting federal benefits generally available to straight married couples.
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U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan of North Carolina says she supports marriage equality
RALEIGH, N.C. — U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan of North Carolina, one of the few Democratic senators who had not previously come out in support of same-sex marriage, said Wednesday that she now supports marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples.
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Day 2 at the high court: Justices to hear challenge to Defense of Marriage Act
WASHINGTON — In the second of back-to-back gay marriage cases, the Supreme Court is turning to a constitutional challenge to the law that prevents legally married gay Americans from collecting federal benefits generally available to straight married couples.
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Same-sex military families look to high court to remedy DOMA’s injustice
As the Supreme Court prepares to consider the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, gay marriage advocates are focusing attention on the way they say the law dishonors gay service members and their spouses, who are denied survivor payments, plots in veterans’ cemeteries, base housing and a host of other benefits that have been available to opposite-sex military couples for generations.
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry rallies opponents of same-sex marriage at state capitol
AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Rick Perry rallied opponents of gay marriage and abortion on Tuesday, calling for support for what he called traditional values on the same day the U.S. Supreme Court heard a challenge to California’s ban on gay marriage.
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Gay Tea Party activist denounces same-sex marriage at NOM rally
Doug Mainwaring, the openly gay founder of the National Capital Tea Party Patriots, spoke towards the end of the National Organization for Marriage’s rally on the National Mall today where he warned that same-sex marriage will “unravel” marriage and “undefine children.”