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Austria will upgrade civil unions for gay couples, but won’t call it ‘marriage’
Partnerships would be registered where marriage records are kept and the spot for “last name” will be changed to “family name.”
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Alabama’s antigay chief justice Roy Moore suspended for rest of his term (again)
Moore can still appeal the ruling to the Alabama Supreme Court.
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Opposing same-sex marriage will cost Kansas $295k
A federal judge has directed Kansas to pay $295,000 to attorneys who successfully challenged the state’s ban on gay marriage in a lawsuit.
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Majority of Australians support marriage equality, don’t want national vote
Parties that support gay marriage, including Labor, argue that the plebiscite was proposed by hard-right conservatives who want it to fail.
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Gay music director fired from Catholic church because he’s married
30 members of the parish protested by singing over a prayer during Sunday’s service.
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Pope Francis adamantly backs Mexico’s marriage equality protesters
Francis said he willingly joined their protest “in favor of family and life, which in these times require special pastoral and cultural attention around the world.”
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Anti-gay Alabama Chief Justice Moore heads to court this week
“He was on a mission not to recognize federal law on same-sex couples,” Carroll told the court in a hearing last month.
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Murdoch-owned Australian paper publishes anti-gay Nazi political cartoon
The News Corp owned paper ran an incredibly offensive political cartoon comparing marriage equality activists to Nazi stormtroopers.
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North Carolina court rejects anti-gay magistrates case
The magistrates claimed that their rights were violated by state guidance that they could lose their jobs if they refused to perform gay marriages.
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Romanian high court delays ruling on same-sex marriage case
Same-sex relationships are a sensitive issue in Romania, which only decriminalized homosexuality in 2001.