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South Carolina judge accepts marriage license application from same-sex couple
CHARLESTON, S.C. — A South Carolina court accepted a same-sex marriage application Wednesday and plans to issue a license despite the state’s constitutional ban against the practice and the attorney general’s pledge to defend it.
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Federal judge wants briefs in South Carolina same-sex marriage challenge
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A federal judge is asking lawyers for a couple that want South Carolina to recognize their same-sex marriage and attorneys for the state to submit briefs next week after a federal appeals court ruling appeared to clear the way for gay marriage in the state.
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South Carolina AG says he will keep fighting to uphold gay marriage ban
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson says he will keep fighting to uphold the state’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. Wilson issued a statement Monday hours after the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to hear an appeal of a ruling allowing same-sex marriage by a federal appeals court with jurisdiction over South Carolina.
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Columbia, S.C., mayor becomes 500th to join marriage equality coalition
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Mayor Steve Benjamin of Columbia, S.C., has signed on to Mayors for the Freedom to Marry, becoming the 500th U.S. mayor to join the nationwide effort of municipal leaders advocating for marriage equality.
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Transgender rights group sues S.C. over teen’s driver’s license photo
COLUMBIA, S.C. — An organization that supports transgender rights has filed a lawsuit against the state of South Carolina after it refused to issue a driver’s license to a 16-year-old gender non-conforming teen unless he took off his makeup. The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund filed the lawsuit filed in federal court Tuesday on behalf of Chase Culpepper…
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S.C. businesses roll out the red carpet for ‘Big Gay’ wedding celebration
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Gay rights advocates hope the buzz surrounding a “Big, Gay ‘I Do'” wedding celebration in Charleston will show how much money South Carolina’s businesses are losing to the state’s ban on same-sex marriage. With federal courts overturning similar bans in other states, advocates in a city that’s already one of the nation’s top wedding locales decided to…
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Marriage News Watch: Virginia win impacts neighbor states
This week’s Marriage News Watch report from Matt Baume at the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) recaps the Fourth Circuit decision that upheld a ruling that Virginia’s same-sex marriage ban is unconstitutional, and the immediate fallout in several nearby states under that Circuit Court’s jurisdiction.
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S.C. gubernatorial candidate: Time to stop defending same-sex marriage ban
COLUMBIA, S.C. — — Gov. Nikki Haley‘s Democratic challenger says South Carolina should “pause” in defending a lawsuit trying to overturn the state’s same-sex marriage ban. Camden Sen. Vincent Sheheen’s statement comes days after a federal appeals court ruled Virginia’s similar ban is unconstitutional. South Carolina is in the same judicial circuit…
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Same-sex couples denied marriage licenses in South Carolina county
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Five same-sex couples have been turned down for marriage licenses in a South Carolina county. The couples had expected their requests would be rejected Wednesday in Greenville County because the state’s ban on same-sex marriage still stands. The couples are part of Campaign for Southern Equality’s “We Do” project.
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S.C. to keep defending gay marriage ban despite appeals court ruling
COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina will continue to defend itself against a lawsuit over its ban on same-sex marriage despite a decision by a federal appeals court with jurisdiction over the state that a similar gay marriage ban in Virginia is unconstitutional.