Topic: Massachusetts

NJ gay couples angry about Senate rejecting same-sex marriage, say they'll keep up the fightThe ceremony was going to be at their home. Along with friends and family, Marty Finkle and Mike Plake were going to invite their state lawmakers who helped ...
Same-sex couples say 'no legitimate' reason for excluding them from feds marriage definitionGay 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 ...

NY assembly shelves gay marriage vote

New York's state assembly on Tuesday put off a tentatively planned vote on a bill that would allow same-sex marriage, but could revisit the controversial issue next week. They are negotiating," a spokeswoman for the assembly's upper house, the State Senate, told ...

NY assembly postpones gay marriage vote

New York's state assembly on Tuesday put off a tentatively planned vote on a bill that would allow same-sex marriage, but could revisit the controversial issue next week. They are negotiating," a spokeswoman for the assembly's upper house, the State Senate, told ...
Administration argues in latest DOMA filing that there is 'no fundamental right' to gay marriage benefits In its latest filing in an ongoing federal challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the Obama administration argues there is no fundamental right to ...
US rejects Mass. lawsuit in gay marriage fight, says states can't force federal benefitsStates that allow gay marriage can't force the federal government to provide benefits to those couples, the Obama administration argued Friday in court papers in a lawsuit by Massachusetts.The ...
More support for civil unions, but majority still opposes gay marriageAn increasing majority of Americans favors allowing same-sex couples to obtain most of the same rights as married straight couples, but only 39 percent support legalization of same-sex marriage, according to a ...

Texas Court To Hear Gay Divorce

A Texas judge ruled Thursday that two Dallas men married in Massachusetts may divorce in the state A Texas judge ruled Thursday that two Dallas men married in Massachusetts may divorce in the state, 'The Dallas Morning News' reported. The ruling by ...
Will same-sex marriages performed in California, Connecticut, Iowa, New Hampshire, or Massachusetts be recognized in other states? During the time when same-sex marriage was available in California - between June and November 2008 -- same-sex couples from all over the country came ...
Maine gay marriage foes recycle tactics used to pass Proposition 8 in California If it's not broke, don't fix it. We guess that's the thinking behind the new anti-gay marriage ad being aired in Maine. The strategy worked in California, where voters ...