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The annual gay pride parade in Paris was enlivened by same sex marriage legislation in New York that was recently signed into law. Similar legislation in France, proposed by the Socialist Party, was blocked by conservatives.
The New York Senate voted Friday to legalize same-sex marriage, delivering a significant victory to the gay rights movement and making New York the largest state to permit such unions. Given the state’s population, the vote essentially doubles
Marriage licenses came about in the late 19th century to prevent mixed-race marriages. That should be appalling to anyone, and is in my opinion the strongest argument to privatize marriage.
There is a reason that governments regulate marriage: Governments couldn’t resist the urge to seize control of marriage which was a traditionally religious and non-governmental institution.
The Massachusetts legislature is conducting hearings Wednesday on a bill that would bar divorcing couples with children from carrying on a sexual relationship while in their own home.
Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife, Maria Shriver, separated after she learned he had fathered a child more than a decade ago — before his first run for office — with a longtime member of their household staff.
Zach Wahls, a 19 year old engineering student at Iowa University brought up by two women, speaks against Prop 6 in Iowa that will outlaw gay marriage.
It started out as a measure to protect gay rights. Now, France's 1999 civil unions system is all the rage with straight couples, reports the New York Times.
An unusual legal test case is taking place in Canada aimed at clarifying whether polygamy is a crime. Does the country's anti-polygamy law violate a constitutional guarantee of the freedom of religion? Over the next few months, a court will decide.
California's ban on same-sex marriages will remain in place until at least December, an appeals court ruled Monday, dashing the hopes of hundreds of couples who had hoped to wed as soon as Wednesday. The action by a three-judge panel of the U.S. C
As ever, thank you for the sometimes great and exciting news you convey each day. There was a great Missouri item to match an unrelated great Missouri that came in from another source yesterday. The article on "gay marriage", however, is
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In the late 1700s, something disturbing happened to marriage in Western societies: It began to change. Young people had revolutionary new ideas about the institution and what it meant to them. "People were terrified," said Stephanie Coontz, a hist
A study released Friday, which interviewed couples married for less than a year, found racial lines are blurring as more people choose to marry outside their race.
Happy Valentine's Day! We are often told by others how selfless or altruistic love is. Nothing could be further from the truth.
John Marcotte wants to put a measure on the ballot next year to ban divorce in California. The effort is meant to be a satirical statement after California voters outlawed gay marriage in 2008, largely on the argument that a ban is needed to prote
Cecelia Burnett and Ann Swanson had already set their wedding date. They joined 1,000 other gay marriage supporters for an election night party hoping to celebrate the vote that would make it possible. Instead, they went home dejected and near tears
He said when he met her, she was a "little plain". German plastic surgeon Dr Reza Vossough built himself the “perfect” wife--with 1600 grams of silicone. Before/after pix: Was it worth it?
Louisiana's governor and a U.S. senator joined in calling for the ouster of a local official who refused to marry an interracial couple, saying his actions clearly broke the law. Keith Bardwell, a white justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish in th
[dinosaurs still roam the Earth] A Louisiana justice of the peace refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have. In his experience most interracial marriages do not last long.
It is truly a blessing from God when your wife can walk in on you watching an Internet video and it actually moves you further from divorce, rather than closer to it.
Women: do you have a man? If you do, better beware. Chances are that some lone female has her eye on him.
Judging from the response, I did more than educate — I converted people
to the cause. If atheist comedians understand the importance of our
work, the God-fearing populace of California should be simple.
People who supported Prop 8 weren't trying to take rights away from
gays, they just wanted to protect traditional marriage. That's why I'm
confident that they will support this initiative, even though this time
it will be their rights that are diminished. To not support it would be
hypocritical.
No
party to any marriage shall be restored to the state of an unmarried
person during the lifetime of the other party unless the marriage is
void or voidable, as set forth in Part 2 of Division 6 of the Family
Code.
A federal court case which could legalize gay marriage in the United
States will begin trial in January 2010 with high-profile lawyers but
not longtime gay and conservative antagonists lined up on opposite
sides of the debate, a district judge ruled on Wednesday.
"I think, you know, freedom means freedom for everyone," Cheney said in a speech at the National Press Club. "I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish, any kind of arrangement they wish." He supports gays being able to marry, but believes states, not the federal government, should make the decision.
The libertarian asks, "Why in God's name would you want the state to have any say in who gets married, at all?"
Even though her views on same sex marriage are identical to those of their beloved Barack Obama, liberals hate Carrie Prejean. This is because female attractiveness is a real deal killer with this crowd. They denied her the Miss USA Title, and attemp
"...everyone was talking about Barack. I’m more of the skeptical kind, I was thinking, 'Yeah, he’s probably an idiot, whatever.'"
