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Obama: ‘Equal Protection Clause does guarantee same-sex marriage’
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says the Supreme Court’s recent gay marriage orders may have the biggest impact of any ruling of his presidency. Obama told The New Yorker that the court’s Oct. 6 rejection of appeals from states seeking to preserve gay marriage bans is the best of his tenure.
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Ginsburg: ‘No crying need’ for the Supreme Court to rule on gay marriage
NEW YORK — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Sunday said there was “no need” for the high court to intervene on the issue of same-sex marriage. In an interview with NPR’s Nina Totenburg at the famed 92nd Street Y in New York City, Ginsburg said the court declined to hear seven appeals challenging the marriage bans …
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Poll: Most Americans support Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage
Most Americans in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll support the recent U.S. Supreme Court action allowing gay marriages to go forward in several states – including a bare majority in the 11 states in which such marriages have begun in the past week and a half. Overall, 56 percent of Americans support the court’s action, while 38 percent…
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9th Circuit grants temporary stay of Alaska same-sex marriages
SAN FRANCISCO — The federal appeals court for the West on Wednesday issued a temporary halt to gay marriages in Alaska, just hours before most couples would be allowed to tie the knot. A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco granted a temporary halt until late Friday morning to allow the state to take its case…
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Marriage equality: Let freedom, and wedding bells, ring
The thing that is surprising is why it has taken so many decades to arrive at marriage equality. The lesbian moms and gay dads and their children of the 1960s were the leaders in same-sex marriage and family issues. History largely does not remember them. From the 1960s to the 1990s, the gay community, as a whole, was more interested in sexual liberation in dark alleys and other dangerous and unhealthy places than in marriage equality…
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U.S. Supreme Court lifts stay on Idaho same-sex marriage ruling
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court says same-sex marriage can go ahead in Idaho. The court issued an order Friday that appears to remove the last legal obstacle keeping gay and lesbian couples from getting married in the conservative state.
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Idaho couples ask U.S. Supreme Court to lift stay, allow same-sex marriages
BOISE, Idaho — Four Idaho couples who sued over the state’s gay marriage ban are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to allow same-sex marriages to begin in accordance with a lower court’s ruling earlier this week. Attorneys for the couples filed the opposition to an emergency stay with the high court Wednesday afternoon.
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What’s happening where? The latest developments in marriage equality…
Weddings, court rulings and confusion are defining a week that started with the U.S. Supreme Court denying appeals from five states seeking to retain their bans on same-sex marriage. Some of the 11 states affected by the denial went ahead with weddings; others are proceeding toward marriage deliberately. Others are putting up a fight.
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U.S. Supreme Court says it erred in halting Nevada same-sex marriages
WASHINGTON — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy mistakenly blocked the start of same-sex marriage in Nevada in an order that spawned confusion among state officials and disappointment in couples hoping to be wed. Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg confirmed this mix-up Thursday, saying Kennedy’s order issued a day earlier…
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Day of legal confusion leaves same-sex couples in limbo in Idaho, Nevada
Confusion and uncertainty over gay marriage spread Wednesday as couples in Las Vegas wondered whether they’d be allowed to wed, and partners in Idaho dealt with disappointment after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling blocked them moments before they would have picked up marriage licenses.