Gay marriage News
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Austin -
Texas attorney general Greg Abbott, the Republican nominee for governor this fall, says that the state's ban on gay marriage should be upheld because gay couples are allegedly not as conducive to "stable" families and child-rearing.
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Denver -
Three Colorado counties are now issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples after a judge struck down the state's gay marriage ban.
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Louisville -
A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that Kentucky's ban on same-sex marriage was an unconstitutional violation of LGBT people's rights.
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In an interview with NPR's Terry Gross, former Secretary of State and First Lady Hillary Clinton finds herself confronted with a part of her past she might rather forget, namely her former opposition to gay marriage.
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Milwaukee -
One couple got a pleasant surprise after their newly legal nuptials. They found out that their restaurant had provided their wedding dinner free of charge to them.
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Milwaukee -
Hundreds of same-sex couples rushed to marry in Wisconsin's largest cities over the weekend after a federal judge ruled the state's voter-approved constitutional amendment banning gay marriage unconstitutional.
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Salt Lake City -
A federal judge on Monday ordered Utah officials to recognize more than 1,000 same-sex marriages performed in the staunchly Mormon state late last year and early this year before the U.S. Supreme Court issued an emergency stay halting such unions.
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In the past few days, Idaho and Oregon have made same-sex marriage legal. Now Pennsylvania has joined them and gay couples are rejoicing.
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Boise -
A judge in Boise, Idaho has overturned an ban on gay marriage which has been in effect since 2006. Couples may be able to get married this Friday.
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Eureka Springs -
At least 15 marriage licenses were issued to same-sex couples in Arkansas after a county judge in the Bible Belt state ruled its decade-old voter-approved constitutional amendment banning such unions unconstitutional.
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Sportsman “Stone Cold” Steve Austin — the world’s most bankable wrestler in the history of the sport — has given his public support for same-sex marriage.
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Same-sex couples in England and Wales can legally become married from March 29, but as from Thursday gay couples can register to be wed.
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Edinburgh -
Scotland has become the world's 17th nation to achieve LGBT marriage equality after its parliament overwhelmingly approved a bill legalizing same-sex marriage.
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Henley On Thames -
A Politician in the United Kingdom has been suspended for stating in an interview that the recent flooding in the country was 'divine retribution for legalisation of Gay Marriage.'
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Salt Lake City -
The office of Utah's Republican governor announced on Wednesday that the state will not recognize the unions of more than 1,300 same-sex couples who wed during the brief period the state was forced to lift a ban on gay marriage.
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Washington -
Utah has taken its fight against LGBT marriage equality to the highest court in the nation, asking Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to suspend a lower court's ruling permitting same-sex couples to legally wed in the staunchly conservative state.
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Denver -
U.S. District Judge Robert J. Shelby shook the world by declaring Utah's gay marriage ban unconstitutional last Friday. On Monday, he denied the state of Utah's request to temporarily suspend his ruling as the appeals process plays out.
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Zagreb -
Same-sex marriage will be banned under Croatia's constitution as nearly two-thirds of voters in Sunday's national election approved a referendum defining marriage as "a union between a woman and a man."
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A lesbian couple, Patricia Ewert and Vernita Gray, have become the first same-sex couple in Illinois to marry. The state isn't set to become the 16th U.S. state to allow gay marriage until June 1 but a judge allowed their case as Gray is dying of cancer.
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Chicago -
Illinois has become the 16th US state to achieve LGBT marriage equality after the state's Democrat governor signed a bill legalizing same-sex marriage on Wednesday.
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Springfield -
A Roman Catholic bishop says he plans to conduct an exorcism ritual when a same-sex marriage bill is expected to be signed next week in Illinois by Governor Pat Quinn.
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Honolulu -
Hawaii became the 15th US state to achieve LGBT marriage equality as Governor Neil Abercrombie signed a bill legalizing same-sex marriage on Wednesday.
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Newark -
New Jersey's Republican governor dropped the state's legal challenge against gay marriage as same-sex couples began marrying in the Garden State just after midnight on Monday.
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On Friday, Judge Mary Jacobson in Mercer County Superior Court of Trenton, N.J. ordered the state to begin performing same-sex marriages. New Jersey must start marrying same-sex couples by Oct. 21.
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Salt Lake City -
One of the most romantic trips to Home Depot ever witnessed! Dustin thinks he's going out to pick out light fixtures and gets the surprise of a lifetime.
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James Bond star Ben Whishaw and his husband Mark Bradshaw have celebrated their first wedding anniversary. The couple married in Sydney in 2012.
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Montgomery -
A state government agency in Alabama opened a meeting last week with a Christian prayer against abortion and gay marriage.
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The Satanic Temple, a NY-based group seeking to foster "benevolence and empathy among all people" through Satan, performed a "Pink Mass" at the Mississippi grave of Catherine Idalette Johnston, mother of Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps Jr.
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Same-sex marriage in England and Wales is officially legal. The government bill to make it so was given Royal Assent on July 17 and is now law, with the leaders of the 3 major parties in the county all backing the legislation.
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Groups opposed to same-sex marriages in the state of California have asked the state's Supreme Court to have them stopped. They want Proposition 8, the 'gay wedding ban' which passed in California in 2008, to remain in effect.
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Gay marriage Image
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Gay marriage protester outside the Minnesota Senate chamber.
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Map of the progress of gay marriage in the United States
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A group supporting marriage as defined between a man and a woman demonstrates in front of the media at the Supreme Court.
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Flickr user Jose Antonio Navas
A couple getting married in New York City, 2011
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Wedding Cake for Same-sex male couple
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New Yorkers showed their support of the recent gay marriage law
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FEMEN activists protest against Vatican's stance on gay marriage in Rome on March 12, 2013
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Nevada Assemblyman Kelvin Atkinson, D-North Las Vegas
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A rally called "March for Marriage" had occurred earlier in the day down on the National Mall. The group then marched up Capitol Hill to the Supreme Court. This group wants to see Prop 8 and DOMA upheld.
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Two people hold signs that show support of same-sex marriage.
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Supporters of same-sex marriage hold signs as the hearing was going on inside the Supreme Court
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Gwenaël Piaser
Marchers at Gay Pride Paris 2012
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Kevin Rudd supports gay marriage.
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Matthew Lannon before the Rhode Island Senate judiciary committee
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Natalie Dicou (L) and her partner Nicole Christensen, and James Goodman (2nd R) and his partner Jeffrey Gomez (R), wait to get married at the Salt Lake County Clerks office in Salt Lake City, Utah, December 20, 2013
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People gather in front of the Supreme Court as arguments on the issue of same-sex marriage were heard for the first time.
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Pro- same-sex marriage demonstrators in Denver.
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A couple getting married in San Francisco
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