gay marriage

As we noted last August, support for gay marriage seems to have been increasing at an accelerated pace over the past couple of years.

Backers of a similar amendment that would forbid gay marriage in Florida appear to be ahead in the polls as well.

The verdict was the second in a federal gay marriage case to come down in recent weeks.

So parents probably need not worry that recognizing gay marriage will increase the likelihood of their child's turning out to be homosexual.

This was not the first time gay marriage had come up for a vote in New York.

And yet gay marriage marches on, scoring its own victories along the way.

The gay marriage law has been a boon for tourism, said Pablo De Luca, founder of the Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce in Buenos Aires.

A string of opinion polls shows that Californians are ready to embrace gay marriage.

Proponents of gay marriage in the US could take a few pointers from the British prime minister, David Cameron.

During the campaign, for example, he said he favoured civil unions but refused to endorse gay marriage.

But advocates of gay marriage have the wind at their backs. Most Americans support either gay marriage or gay civil unions.

"Maine legalized gay marriage today. Maine became comfortable with the idea after years of touching Canada. " --Craig Ferguson.

But the state of New York recently had quite a lot to say about gay marriage.

But gay marriage has now been legal in parts of America for more than six years, and is getting less controversial by the minute.

The attorneys also said gay marriage was an experiment with unknown social consequences that should be left to voters to accept or reject.

One congressman said gay marriage would "devalue the love between a man and a woman. "

Like abortion, gay marriage is one of those hot-button issues in the culture war between liberals and conservatives.

Pundits pondered whether the legalisation of gay marriage in California would have an impact on the general election.

But many GOPers think they've got enough to run on without bringing up the gay marriage issue.

A majority of Americans oppose gay marriage, and with health care and the economy to fix the president has plenty to keep him busy already.

The verdict is the second in a federal gay marriage case to fall down in recent weeks.

With gay marriage becoming a reality in some places, more people are beginning to sit up and take notice.

It seems the cynics were right: last week a gay paper dug up a long-lost questionnaire from 1996 in which he strongly endorsed gay marriage.

Australian Marriage Equality national convenor Peter Furness said gay marriage would be recognised overseas, unlike civil unions.

In Maine opponents of gay marriage overturned a state law at the ballot box that would have allowed same-sex nuptials.

Besides, the debate over gay marriage has led to a wide national dialogue over traditional morality.

Homosexuality is an abomination and is banned by the Bible. Gay marriage should be illegal in all cases.

"I believe that there wouldn't be any gay marriage today if it weren't for AIDS, " Mr. Mendelsohn said.

Prof Zwicky (out and proud, incidentally, and a California resident) was writing when gay marriage was still legal in his state.

Department of Public Health, thrust Massachusetts into the center of a nationwide debate on gay marriage.

THE debate over gay marriage is at the heart of many races in America's mid-term elections.

Rhode Island may consider gay marriage as well, and already recognises unions performed elsewhere.

New Hampshire has passed a bill legalizing gay marriage, but it still needs to be signed by the governor.

And conservatives fear that newly-empowered liberal judges might one day create a right to gay marriage or government-provided health care.

Another Democratic senator, Debbie Stabenow, took a similar position because her state, Michigan, has passed a law prohibiting gay marriage.

ALBanY, NY (AP) -- The top courts in two states dealt a setback Thursday to the movement to legalize gay marriage.

In the United States, Massachusetts and California, by virtue of state court constitutional rulings, now allow gay marriage.

A federal appeals court in California decided to keep the state's ban on gay marriage in place until it hears the case.

But advocates of gay marriage have the wind at their backs.

Mr Zapatero's government has passed some of the most liberal laws in Europe, including legalising gay marriage.

Social liberals like Obama, but will probably pressure him to adjust his position on gay marriage in the months ahead.

At last Mr Obama had a better time than John Edwards, the only candidate taken to task for opposing gay marriage.

The first casualty of the acceptance of gay marriage would be the very definition of marriage itself.

GAY MARRIAGE TURNS OUT TO BE YAWNINGLY SIMILAR TO HETEROSEXUAL MARRIAGE.

We believe this kind of answer actually opens the door to gay marriage!

Seven state legislatures have now voted to allow gay marriage or some watered-down variant of it.

Gavin Newsom, a hero to the left for his stance on gay marriage, is an ideological pariah to the right.

I think he only supports gay marriage because he sees marriage as a form of torture, but anyway, he supports it.

Same-sex marriage supporters received a boost when a judge in Connecticut cleared the way for the legalisation of gay marriage in the state.

The ruling puts Walker at the forefront of the gay marriage debate. The longtime federal judge was appointed by President Ronald Reagan.

Earlier, Gaga had rejoiced when she heard the news that her home state of New York passed a law making gay marriage legal.

With little hope of getting a gay marriage bill signed into law in Albany, advocates marshaled forces for a court fight.

To ban gay marriage, the legislature must pass a constitutional amendment in two successive assemblies.

Those that sit against Gay marriage or are anti- abortionists are another example of this archetype expressed in present time.

What are the consequences of gay marriage likely to be?

Not to put you on the spot, but what's your take on the issue of gay marriage?

Pleading the tenth (states' rights) amendment, he argues that New York's stand on gay marriage is its own business.

Last week, during the gay-marriage appeals in California, the Rev. Jesse Jackson called for African-Americans to support gay marriage.

But this does put Republicans in a tricky position. Their traditional position on gay marriage is becoming less popular.

Last September, he famously addressed the Conservative party conference with a plan to legalise gay marriage before 2015.

Adam and Eve were told to be fruitful and multiply, but there's no way a gay marriage can fulfill this command!

In fact, if Thomas Jefferson were around today, the chairman of the Cato Institute says that he'd likely be in favor of gay marriage. Why?

If the bill became law, New York would follow Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont and Iowa in legalizing gay marriage.

Many states allow some kind of legalized relationship for gays, but only one, Massachusetts, has gay marriage on the books.

Today just 24% of young people support the statement, though they tend to be much more accepting of gay marriage.

Since Mr Craig has voted against allowing gay marriage, his critics call him a hypocrite.

No matter where you stand on gay marriage, there should be no controversy over the comedy-free coupling of Chuck and Larry.

Only one American state, Massachusetts, has so far legalised gay marriage (in 2004).

The subject of gay marriage came up, and Mr. Zhou laughed dismissively.

The propensity for tuxedoed birds to enact something like a gay marriage has since provided a memorable skirmish in the culture wars.

Gay rights groups say they will lobby lawmakers to legalize gay marriage, and file lawsuits to try to force the courts to legalize it.

Opponents said they would go on the attack against Republicans who support gay marriage.

It now says that it will reject money from Lutheran churches in richer countries to protest against their support for gay marriage.

In Britain, where a small majority of the population backs gay marriage, it is not clear which way the tide will turn.

The court had previously ruled gay marriage legal, but was obliged to uphold the voters' wishes.

A lesbian couple who led the fight for gay marriage in the state of Massachusetts is filing for divorce.

Gay rights supporters have traveled a bumpy road since the first legal U. S. gay marriage was conducted in Massachusetts in 2004.

A constitutional amendment would stop state experimentation and impose a national norm on a country divided and in flux about gay marriage.

Two steps forward, then, in the march toward the universal recognition of gay marriage? Well, yes and no.

However, the landmark ruling stops short of recognising gay marriage, which could involve public or religious ceremonies.

[color=#000000]Paradoxically, similar language is now being used by gay-marriage advocates.

I'm straight, but I support gay marriage, because a marriage is about love, not gender.

They say that gay marriage undermines the traditional sort, but have trouble explaining how.

It is hard to imagine Ronald Reagan sponsoring a federal amendment banning gay marriage or limiting federal funding for stem-cell research.

California's fight over the initiative to ban gay marriage (popularly called Prop. 8) has attracted its share of million-dollar donors.

Vermont has become the fourth American State to legalize gay marriage after legislators overruled a veto by the state governor.

This, we believe, explains some of the differences in opinion on gay marriage.

I wholeheartedly support gay marriage, equality, and anything pertaining to the LGBT community.

Uruguay's Congress voted overwhelmingly to legalise gay marriage, the second country in Latin America, after Argentina, to do so.

Fifty years ago, however, most people probably would not have dreamed that America or Britain would ever allow gay marriage.

Do you know where China stands on things like abortion and gay marriage?

Some courts and legislatures have extended those rights, but voters have consistently opposed gay marriage.

I don't agree with either gay marriage or polygamy for exactly the same reason: both prevent marriage from fulfilling its primary goal.

The current mayor, Marcelo Ebrard, has legalised abortion on demand, gay marriage and gay adoption in his first four years in office.

The New Testament, after all, has a lot more to say about poverty than about gay marriage.

The Catholic church has been angered by clauses which could be interpreted as legalising abortion and gay marriage.

He added, however, that he does not support federal legislation on gay marriage.

Barack Obama says he supports civil unions but, as a Christian, opposes gay marriage.

She's from a small village in Belgium and gay marriage is recognised over there [as opposed to civil partnership].

Continuing domestic political battles about gay marriage have kept the city in the global spotlight.

Barack Obama has been both praised and criticised a day after he became the first sitting US president to publicly support gay marriage.

California legalizes gay marriage, how will the rest of America respond?

California struck down its gay-marriage law in a ballot in 2008, just six months after it was passed.

He argued that the world was in moral decline, with the widespread acceptance of gay marriage the clearest sign.

So does the Bible have anything to "say" about gay marriage?

Many of the whites have veered hard right, hating abortion and gay marriage and reliably voting Republican, though less so very recently.

i think that gay marriage is something that should be between a man and a woman .

A flurry of pro-gay marriage rulings and votes in Iowa and New England this year has reversed a trend toward banning them. Most U.

A social conservative, she opposes gay marriage, abortion and the legalization of the morning-after pill.

A slew of socially liberal legislation, from gay marriage to fast-track divorce, has gone through parliament.

Gay marriage, civil unions or domestic partnerships is afforded to gays in many countries and states.

While all of the candidates oppose gay marriage, no one bashed homosexuals.

In other measures, gay marriage has been legalised and religious (in effect, Catholic) education has been downgraded.

Two steps forward, then, in the march toward the universal recognition of gay marriage?

Spain, which introduced gay marriage four years ago, has shed its Roman Catholic-inspired suspicion of same-sex couples, Rico said.

Their appeal is likely to keep gay marriage in the state on hold pending future proceedings.

He has also pandered to the religious right, opposing stem-cell research and promoting a federal amendment banning gay marriage.

If the measure passes, New York will become the sixth and most populous state in the country to allow gay marriage.

A bill that legalises gay marriage in France easily passed the National Assembly. It now heads to the Senate.

The trial will be the first to consider whether bans on gay marriage violate federal civil rights and anti-discrimination laws.

He also called on Catholic schools and parishes to ban gay-marriage supporters from speaking at their events.

Besides, I don't think a few gay marriage will end the entire human race?

Bill Clinton signed the Defence of Marriage Act, which barred federal recognition of gay marriage.

But Labor will now support a Greens motion which calls for all MPs to speak to their constituents about gay marriage.

Gay marriage was legalised by the courts in part because it so resembled heterosexual marriage; for instance, it has two people.

A law specifically legalizing gay marriage has stalled in Argentina's Congress since October.

Poll after poll shows a majority of the Australian public supports gay marriage.

He wants to end the Catholic church's privileged status in schools and to liberalise laws on gay marriage and abortion.

They will also be cross-examined about other claims against gay marriage.

Student: Cheney has power of other input in regards to gay marriage.

Britain, too, has become far more tolerant of, or indifferent to, the issue of gay marriage, as various opinion polls attest.

Agent Andrew Warren noted, "I felt the need to return to Twitter due to my distaste of @uptownhockey take on the issue of gay marriage. "

Gay marriage is becoming more common and accepted, and straight people are staying single longer.

If New York passes this bill, it will be the sixth and most populated American state to recognise gay marriage.

John: I hear that Ai Xin Hong Lian opens a introduction center of gay marriage. So I come to get registered.

Forty-one have banned gay marriage and five allow it, leaving just four without an explicit policy.

Brooklyn's bishop called on parishes to ban gay-marriage supporters from speaking at events.

It is the only country in Africa to allow gay marriage.

And Republicans are hardly presenting a united front against gay marriage this year.

Supporters of gay marriage usually argue from a liberal perspective.

A judge in San Francisco ruled that California's ban on gay marriage was unconstitutional.

The lesbian couple who led the fight for gay marriage in Massachusetts is filing for divorce.

Gay marriage is likely to continue spreading from state to state.

Some conservatives feared that anything smacking of gay marriage would undermine "the real thing" .

The current gay marriage debate hints at why homophobia blazes afresh in the bush. . .

It is impossible to predict what blend of elections, legislation and judicial decisions will bring gay marriage to America.

He still opposes gay marriage and classifying crimes against gays as hate crimes.

on gay marriage, recently legalized in Mexico City, she equivocates.

The Lib Dems, by contrast, were the first big party to endorse gay marriage, in September.

THOSE who oppose gay marriage often argue that having gay parents is hard on children.

The recent poll shows that those who have a gay friend or relative are more likely to support gay marriage.

It is a dynamic we've seen elsewhere recently, in regard to issues like gay marriage and contraception.

Some churches and religious figures have taken a liberal stance on gay marriage.

The debate over the non-entity of gay marriage is with us again.

Communism, gay marriage, and nuclear weapons: all of them are legs of the Axis of Evil.

Canada's Supreme Court ruled that gay marriage was constitutional.

The gay marriage issue has been headline news across North America and on other continents.

This is not good news for those hoping for a ruling in favour of gay marriage when the issue comes before the Supreme Court.

Only gay marriage still leaves a majority uneasy, she argues, and even there opposition is shrinking.

While many people still oppose gay marriage on religious grounds, others point out that the Bible also condoned slavery.

In New Hampshire, which has a distinctly conservative streak, the House of Representatives on March 26th voted to support gay marriage.

Would gay marriage threaten real marriage? What's real marriage?

Gay-marriage supporters also reject the argument based on children, pointing to America's changing social reality.

she is pro-choice and is a supporter of gay marriage, which makes her even more progressive than many Democrats.

Mr Abbott opposes abortion, stem-cell research and gay marriage. He once called the notion of human-induced climate change "crap" .

Most Americans support either gay marriage or gay civil unions.

One year later, her tragic death could reshape the gay-marriage debate.

During an interview with The New York Post, Rudy Giuliani said that he is against gay marriage.

Palin said she vetoed it because the Alaska Supreme Court deemed it unconstitutional, not because she supports gay-marriage rights.

Was this Rodman's way of showing support for gay marriage?

In point of fact, neither Mr Giuliani nor Mr Perry favours gay marriage.

She has never ruled on gay marriage, an issue likely to come before the Supreme Court before long.

Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.

Vermont became the fourth state to legalize gay marriage.

California voters passed the ban as Proposition 8 in November 2008, five months after the state Supreme Court legalized gay marriage.

Campaigners for gay marriage say they are gaining ground, though very slowly.

Spain has legalized gay marriage by the way and fast tract divorce.

Since it is the young who are most relaxed about gay marriage, standing in its path might cost the Republicans dear in the future.

Young Americans are much more laid-back than their elders: those aged 18-34 are twice as likely to support gay marriage as those over 65.

Where it is legal, gay marriage has been championed by courts and legislatures, not voters.

Dick Cheney said today, he supports gay marriage.

Although Barack Obama has said that he supports civil unions, he is against gay marriage.

She married her partner, Kelly, when gay marriage became legal in South Africa in 2006.

Iowa's Supreme Court legalized gay marriage.

They say gay marriage ruins families and hurts kids.

In 2003 Massachusetts became the first American state to legalise gay marriage.

The 2010 census will provide the federal government's first official recognition of gay marriage, which is legal in six states.

California court to weigh gay marriage ban.

When she started her lobbying, delegates would tell her gay marriage was wrong.

Because the principles behind legal gay marriage are on full display in the Declaration of Independence.

The Bible is not specific, literate, or even concerned with what we call same-sex orientation or gay marriage.

I definitely think that the acceptance of gay marriage is a very positive development.

In New England, proponents are hoping to legalise gay marriage in all six states by 2012.

Canada too, and it is plain that most North Atlantic nations will soon recognize gay marriage.

Latvia banned gay marriage in 2005, after Poland and Lithuania.

However, I think he's wrong on gay marriage and civil partnerships.

After a series of thank-yous, he turned serious in talking about gay marriage.

In Arizona, opponents of gay marriage are trying again, having lost no time fretting over the 48-52 loss in 2006.

Think social networking, gay marriage, stem cells or the rise of China.

Gay marriage advocates lost key ballot proposition battles in Calfornia in 2008 and Maine in 2009.

He is pro-guns, claims to favour low taxes and opposes gay marriage.

Mexico City became the first city in Latin America to legalize gay marriage in 2009.

Why is there opposition to gay marriage?

One is that he is a model husband, father and social conservative: he opposes abortion, gay marriage and stem-cell research.

This is thanks to the unusual pairing of lawyers who are arguing in favour of gay marriage for the plaintiffs.

And they need to recognise that gay marriage could well be their equivalent of the gun issue.

In Maine they hope to gather more than 55, 000 signatures in 90 days, thus forcing a referendum on whether to re-ban gay marriage.

Learn about the many places where gay marriage is legal and how to become a gay parent.

And according to Gallup, the proportion of Americans who think gay marriage should be legal has risen to 40% from 27% in the mid-1990s.

Even if the legislature passes an amendment, opposition to gay marriage may fade by 2012, says David Redlawsk of the University of Iowa.

Mr Ebrard is pro-choice and supports gay marriage.

About 40 U. S. states have laws banning gay marriage.

The first federal case to determine the status of gay marriage in America got under way.

This is the fourth credible poll in the past eight months to show an outright majority of Americans in favor of gay marriage.

A new poll from the University of Iowa found that only 37% of Iowans oppose both gay marriage and civil unions.

In Argentina, Cristina Kirchner not only approved gay marriage, but also pushed the country just shy of decriminalizing abortion.

For example, a report on gay marriage may convey the message that gay couples are ordinary people and parents.

What's the number one reason we should have gay marriage?

The moral case for gay marriage does not depend on the fact that it reduces red tape. But every voice helps, even that of corporate America

The decision could open the courts to thousands of challenges from gay couples from the handful of states where gay marriage is legal.

Do you think that gay marriage in China can be legally?

In 2003 Massachusetts became the first American state to legalise gay marriage. Connecticut followed suit last year, and Vermont last month.

It opposes gay marriage, for example.

I want to go to Senate, I want to pass a bill and get gay marriage legalized.

The claim that the push for "Gay" marriage is all about "love" is just utter bollocks

One Christian leader was interviewed on MSNBC-TV and was asked about the gay marriage issue. The interview went something like this

Who is hurt by gay marriage?

Now many countries and regions have admitted gay marriage or have legalized, is it a certain social trend

Activist: Lair Scott launched the campaign last week - after New York state legalised gay marriage

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