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News (USA)
Bill would take Alabama out of marriage license business
Republican Sen. Greg Albritton’s bill would require couples to file a form to record their marriages.
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News (World)
Judge rules against couple in China’s first same-sex marriage case
The couple’s lawyer Shi Fulong said he expected the judge would rule against them but not so soon — within just a few hours.
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News (World)
You will be disappointed in the Pope’s new document on families
In many ways the document is most significant for what it doesn’t say.
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News (USA)
Mississippi ban on adoption by same-sex couples ruled unconstitutional
The judge ruled for the couples who had sued, saying the ban is unconstitutional after recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions legalizing gay marriage and benefits for gay couples.
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News (USA)
Judge awards Tennessee lawyers $2 million for marriage equality case
U.S. District Judge Aleta Trauger ruled that the results the lawyers got in the case were “superb and far-reaching” and that they should be entitled to costs and fees.
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News (USA)
Does South Carolina’s domestic violence law discriminate against gay couples?
A law that perhaps intentionally failed to protect domestic violence victims in same-sex relationships appears to be unconstitutional.
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News (USA)
Anti-gay baby meet bathwater: Alabama wants to abolish marriage licenses
The Alabama Senate voted to do away with state-issued marriage licenses after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that effectively legalized same-sex marriage.
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News (USA)
Ohio Supreme Court ditches ‘husband’ and ‘wife’ for gender neutral terms
The order covers the areas of divorce, child support, guardianships, adoption, domestic relations and domestic violence.
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News (USA)
Tennessee Attorney General says fight against marriage equality cost too much
The lawyers who worked for the same-sex couples note in court filings they’re already giving the state a $1 million discount.
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News (USA)
Florida has new laws on same-sex marriage and a Confederate statue
Governor Rick Scott signed into law language that specifies clergy don’t have to marry same-sex couples — a right many said is already protected under state law and the U.S. Constitution.
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News (USA)
Michigan’s Catholic church will give gay employees spousal benefits
But it’s not endorsing gay marriage.
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News (World)
UPDATED: Did Queen Elizabeth oppose legalizing same-sex marriage?
As British lawmakers debated legalizing same-sex marriage, the Queen reportedly told a friend, “I can only advise and warn.”
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News (World)
This Christian student was expelled from university for opposing gay marriage on Facebook
After another Sheffield University student complained about his post, he was called to a disciplinary hearing.
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News (USA)
Study: People who oppose same-sex marriage can’t stop imagining gay sex scenarios
They fear the sexual promiscuity perceived in LGBTQs will shake the foundation of their own marriages.
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News (USA)
Texas baker refuses to make wedding cake for gay couple
The baker refused to serve the couple claiming it would offend her faith.
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Commentary
How to move the LGBTQ community beyond the priorities of the past
Oppression operates like a wheel with many spokes. If we work to dismantle only a few specific spokes, the wheel will continue to roll over people.
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News (World)
Manny Pacquiao: ‘I respect Nike’s decision to drop me’
He still holds firm on his opposition to same-sex marriage: Those “people are worse than animals.”
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News (USA)
West Virginia clerk humiliates lesbian couple seeking marriage license
On what was supposed to be a happy day, the two women were left weeping in the courthouse hallway.
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News (USA)
Texas Attorney General faces ethics charges over same-sex marriage opinion
Already indicted on felony securities fraud charges, Paxton will face an investigation after he encouraged officials to break the law.