Same-sex marriages

Same-sex marriages

A community portal about Same-sex marriages with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Same-sex marriage is the legal union of two people who are of the same biological sex or gender. Other terms include "gay marriage... [more]

A community portal about Same-sex marriages with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Same-sex marriage is the legal union of two people who are of the same biological sex or gender. Other terms include "gay marriage", "gender-neutral marriage", "equal marriage", "lesbian marriage", "homosexual marriage", and "same-gender marriage".

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Gay married couples suing the government over a federal law that doesn't recognize same-sex unions say there is "no legitimate or plausible" reason for having a federal definition of marriage that excludes gay couples. The lawsuit was brought by seven gay couples and three widowers, all of whom were married in Massachusetts after it became the first state in the country to legalize gay marriage in 2004. In court documents filed Tuesday, the couples say the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) violates the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution because it denies them access to federal benefits given to other married couples, ... Read Full Story
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It looked like a stunning reversal: the same church that helped defeat gay marriage in California standing with gay-rights activists on an anti-discrimination law in its own backyard. On Tuesday night, after a series of clandestine meetings between local gay-rights backers and Mormons in Salt Lake City, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced it would support proposed city laws that would prohibit discrimination against gays in housing and employment. The ordinances passed and history was made: It marked the first time the Salt Lake City-based church had supported gay-rights legislation. The Mormon church — which continues to suffer a backlash over ... Read Full Story
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It looked like a stunning reversal: the same church that helped defeat gay marriage in California standing with gay-rights activists on an anti-discrimination law in its own backyard. On Tuesday night, after a series of clandestine meetings between local gay-rights backers and Mormons in Salt Lake City, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced it would support proposed city laws that would prohibit discrimination against gays in housing and employment. The ordinances passed and history was made: It marked the first time the Salt Lake City-based church had supported gay-rights legislation. The Mormon church — which continues to suffer a backlash over ... Read Full Story
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  The Modern Classic Reader Society this year named G. Roger Denson’s novel Voice of Force as the 2009 gay novel to rank with the great gay novels of the past.    Here is the story synopsis from the back cover of the novel along with the synopses of the twenty classic novels it joins.     To see the actual website go to:  http://modernclassicreader.tripod.com/gaynovels/ G. Roger Denson -- Voice of Force The first significantly gay novel set in the 21st-century, Voice of Force is a fictional dossier leaked from the office of the Manhattan District Attorney and pieced together to tell a story of ... Read Full Story
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Following Tuesday’s narrow rejection of same-sex marriage in Maine, the latest front in the battle over gay rights has moved to New Jersey. The Democrat-controlled legislature in New Jersey, which currently recognizes same-sex couples in civil unions, is under pressure to pass a bill that would authorize gay marriage before Jon Corzine ends his term in mid-January. Corzine, who was unseated in Tuesday’s election, said he would sign such a bill. On the contrary, his successor, Republican Chris Christie, has taken a stand against same-sex marriages and has stated that he would veto it as governor. “New Jersey is at the very top of ... Read Full Story
 
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In a 4-3 decision, New York State's highest court rejected a Christian legal group's argument that same-sex marriage was akin to incest and polygamy, and should therefore be denied government benefits for spouses. But the court's narrow ruling did not address the broader question of whether same-sex marriages performed in other states should be recognized in New York. The minority vote came from judges who argued that the case should have...  
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In 2006, the Arizona-based Alliance Defense Fund filed a lawsuit against Westchester County executive Andrew Spano for directing his employees to civilly recognize same-sex marriages performed in states where they are legal. Governor David Paterson later ordered state agencies to do exactly this in a May 2008 directive that had anti-gay groups like the ADF up in arms (they're coordinating their own case against Paterson, too.) The case...  
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A challenge to New York's recognition of same-sex marriages performed elsewhere has failed in a 4-3 ruling by the state's highest court, the Ithaca Journal reports: "The state Court of Appeals rejected a Christian legal group’s claim that the extension...  
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Republican gubernatorial hopeful Rod Roberts of Carroll supports the ouster of three Iowa Supreme Court justices that are up for retention votes in 2010 due to their verdict legalizing same-sex marriage earlier this year.  
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Supreme Court to review same-sex marriage amendmentDaily CardinalThe Wisconsin Supreme Court will review the validity of the state constitutional amendment passed in 2006 banning same-sex marriage and ...Supreme Court to hear gay marriage caseFox11online.comall 2 news articles »  
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