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  • French president signs gay marriage into law

    May 18, 2013 3:32 PM

    PARIS - France will see its first gay weddings within days, after French President Francois Hollande signed a law Saturday authorizing marriage and adoption by same-sex couples and ending months of nationwide protests and wrenching debate. Hollande's office said he signed the bill Saturday morning, a day after the Constitutional... more »
  • Flower power

    April 18, 2013 7:43 PM

    SEATTLE - When a long-time customer was turned down for wedding flowers by a florist, the customer sued and the American Civil Liberties Union and the Attorney General of Washington state are on his side. Robert Ingersoll was refused flower service for his wedding when the owner of the shop... more »
  • Supreme Court hears DOMA case

    March 27, 2013 11:46 AM

    WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court is indicating it could strike down the federal law that prevents legally married gay couples from receiving a range of federal benefits for married people. Justice Anthony Kennedy, often the decisive vote in close cases, joined the four more liberal justices in raising questions about... more »
  • High court hears case on federal benefits for gays

    March 27, 2013 8:44 AM

    WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court is hearing the second of back-to-back gay marriage cases, a constitutional challenge to the law that prevents legally married gay Americans from collecting federal benefits generally available to straight married couples. A section of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act says marriage may only be... more »
  • Justices hear arguments on Calif. gay marriage ban

    March 26, 2013 10:33 AM

    WASHINGTON - A lawyer seeking an end to California's ban on same-sex marriage is comparing it to bans on interracial marriages, a prohibition the Supreme Court declared illegal decades ago. In charged back-and-forth exchanges with justices, lawyer Theodore Olson said that the court should look to its 1967 Loving case,... more »
  • Gay marriage argument goes to high court today

    March 26, 2013 8:00 AM

    WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court is wading into the fight over same-sex marriage at a time when public opinion is shifting rapidly in favor of permitting gay and lesbian couples to wed, but 40 states don't allow it. The court's first major examination of gay rights in 10 years begins... more »
  • Public braves snow for gay marriage case tickets

    March 25, 2013 10:48 AM

    WASHINGTON - People waiting to attend to gay marriage cases being heard by the U.S. Supreme Court have been undeterred by snow falling in the nation's capital. More than three dozen people were waiting Monday to get tickets to the cases, which will be heard Tuesday and Wednesday. Many of... more »
  • Obama considers weighing in on gay marriage case

    February 20, 2013 4:36 PM

    WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is quietly considering urging the Supreme Court to overturn California's ban on gay marriage, a step that would mark a political victory for advocates of same-sex unions. President Barack Obama raised expectations among opponents of the Proposition 8 ban when he declared last month in... more »
  • British lawmakers vote in favor of gay marriage

    February 5, 2013 2:24 PM

    LONDON- British lawmakers have voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bill to legalize same-sex marriages. The government-proposed bill would enable same-sex couples to get married in both civil and religious ceremonies, provided that the religious institution consents. In a first House of Commons vote on Tuesday, lawmakers voted 400 to... more »
  • Actor Jim Nabors marries male partner in Seattle

    January 30, 2013 11:00 AM

    HONOLULU - The actor best known for playing the TV character Gomer Pyle in the 1960s has married his male partner of 38 years. Hawaii News Now reports Jim Nabors and his partner, Stan Cadwallader, traveled from their Honolulu home to Seattle to be married Jan. 15. Gay marriage became... more »
  • Catholic bishops stay course on gay marriage fight

    November 12, 2012 2:41 PM

    BALTIMORE - The nation's Roman Catholic bishops say they won't change their strategy on gay marriage or birth control coverage despite the outcome of the election. Bishops have been in the forefront of opposing same-sex marriage. But voters decided ballot questions in four states last week in favor of gay... more »
  • Wash. voters approve gay marriage

    November 8, 2012 3:34 PM

    OLYMPIA, Wash. - Voters in Washington state have approved gay marriage, joining Maine and Maryland as the first states to pass same-sex marriage by popular vote. Referendum 74 asked people to approve or reject a law legalizing same-sex marriage that Washington legislators passed earlier this year. The law was signed... more »
  • Louisiana Sounds of on President's Gay Marriage stance

    May 9, 2012 10:30 PM

    Louisiana's citizens are at odds over President Obama's announcement supporting gay marriage. Some were surprised by the announcement, but the surprise is less in the president's words, and more in his timing. Many saying they didn't expect the president to take a stance this early in his campaign. Capital City... more »
  • WATCH: Obama voices his support for gay marriage

    May 9, 2012 2:37 PM

    WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama says he now supports same-sex marriage, ending months of equivocation on a subject with powerful election-year consequences. Obama says he has concluded that it is important for him to affirm that he thinks same-sex couples should be able to get married. He says he came... more »
  • Gay marriage bill signed

    March 1, 2012 4:38 PM

    ANNAPOLIS, MD. - Maryland's governor has signed a bill legalizing gay marriage, joining seven other states and the District of Columbia. Governor Martin O'Malley signed the bill today one week after its final passage by the Maryland Legislature. The law is scheduled to take effect in January 2013.... more »
  • Washington state lawmakers pass gay marriage bill

    February 9, 2012 3:06 AM

    OLYMPIA, Wash. - The Washington state Legislature has voted to legalize gay marriage, setting the stage for the state to become the seventh in the nation to allow same-sex couples to wed. The action comes a day after a federal appeals court declared California's ban on gay marriage unconstitutional. The... more »
  • Milestone Marriage for leader of Iceland

    June 30, 2010 8:25 PM

    Iceland's Prime Minister made history last week by becoming the world's first head of government to enter into a gay marriage. Johanna Sigurdardottir married her long time girlfriend that fellow nordic and European nations hardly noticed. Gay rights activists say Europe in general has a better record of accepting gays... more »
  • Same-sex couples pick up marriage licenses in Washington, D.C.

    March 9, 2010 9:00 AM

    Same-sex couples in Washington, D.C. picked up marriage licenses on their first eligible day today. The law changed there last week. Fifteen licenses were picked up in the first hour, and 150 couples are eligible to pick up their licenses today. There is a mandatory three-business-day waiting period between... more »
  • Cindy McCain endorses gay marriage

    January 20, 2010 8:03 PM

    The wife of the 2008 Republican nominee for president, Cindy McCain, posed for an ad endorsing pro-gay marriage forces in California. The ad shows McCain with duct tape across her mouth and "NOH8" written on her cheek. NOH8 is a gay-rights group challenging Proposition 8 passed by voters in California... more »
  • Cameras indefinitely banned from Prop. 8 trial

    January 13, 2010 4:45 PM

    In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court has ruled to indefinitely block cameras from covering the high-profile federal court trial on the constitutionality of California's ban on gay marriage. Conservative justices were in the majority. On Monday, the Supreme Court responded to a request from gay marriage opponents and... more »
  • Court blocks taping of gay marriage trial

    January 11, 2010 10:11 AM

    The Supreme Court is blocking a broadcast of the trial on California's same-sex marriage ban, at least for the first few days. The federal trial is scheduled to begin later Monday in San Francisco. It will consider whether the Proposition 8 gay marriage ban approved by California voters in November... more »
  • Lawmakers in Mexico City legalize gay marriage

    December 21, 2009 4:43 PM

    Mexico City has become the first city in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage. The move gives homosexual couples rights like adopting children. The bill calls for changing the definition of marriage in the city's civil code. Right now, marriage is currently defined as the union of a man... more »

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