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Oklahoma House OKs bill protecting ministers who refuse same-sex marriages
The bill grants licensed ministers in the state immunity from any civil claim based on their refusal to recognize a marriage that violates the minister’s “conscience or religious beliefs.”
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Oklahoma bill would allow ministers to refuse to officiate same-sex marriages
The bill states licensed ministers shall be immune from any civil claim based on their refusal to recognize any marriage that violates the minister’s “conscience or religious beliefs.”
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Marriage News Watch: February 2, 2015
Marriage could be starting next week in Alabama – anti-gay officials are saying that they don’t have to let gay couples get married, but their reasoning isn’t exactly what you would call true.
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Oklahoma lawmaker withdraws anti-gay ‘license to discriminate’ bill
An Oklahoma lawmaker who has introduced several anti-gay bills for the upcoming session is withdrawing one measure, widely criticized as a licensing businesses to discriminate against LGBT people.
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Oklahoma governor Mary Fallin refuses to take position on LGBT discrimination
Gov. Mary Fallin won’t say whether she thinks Oklahoma businesses should be allowed to discriminate against gay people.
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Okla. career anti-gay lawmaker introduces three bills targeting LGBT community
Oklahoma state lawmaker Sally Kern, who once called homosexuality “the biggest threat our nation has, even more so than terrorism or Islam,” has introduced three new measures targeting the LGBT community.
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More than 3200 same-sex couples marry in Oklahoma, spike seen along Texas border
About 2,200 marriage licenses have been issued in the state’s two most populous counties, Oklahoma and Tulsa counties. Another spike has been in counties bordering Texas.
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Same-sex couple’s adoption in Oklahoma believed to be among state’s first
An adoption decree granted to a married lesbian couple in Okmulgee County is believed to be among the first same-sex adoptions in Oklahoma, the women’s attorney says.
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No silence of the trans: Bigoted shouts losing ground in march toward equality
Former Oklahoma GOP Congressman Ernest Istook, a broadcaster and lawyer before entering Congress, has returned to broadcast and print journalism for the conservative press with a recent two-part analysis of the transgender community. He is not happy with the community’s social progress.
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Okla. Supreme Court says gay partner entitled to hearing in parental rights case
OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Supreme Court says a lesbian woman who helped raise her partner’s two biological children is entitled to a court hearing on her claim for parental rights and what is in the best interest of the children, now ages 6 and 7. The court issued its ruling on Wednesday, overturning …