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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. judge appeared sympathetic to a lesbian federal employee's bid to strike down a law denying health-insurance benefits to her spouse, in the first hearing since the Obama administration decided to quit defending the statute.U.S. District Judge ...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California's Supreme Court opened the way on Thursday for gay marriage opponents to defend California's same-sex marriage ban in federal court, writing that the state's constitution backed their case.The ban in the most populous U.S. state has been ...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California's Supreme Court opened the way for gay marriage opponents to defend California's same-sex marriage ban in federal court, writing on Thursday that the state's constitution backed their cause.The ban in the most populous - and famously liberal ...
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Nearly half of Americans support same-sex marriage and the proportion who are accepting of homosexuality is increasing, University of Chicago researchers said on Wednesday.The results show a clear "trend toward greater tolerance regarding homosexuality," said Tom Smith of the ...
RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - The North Carolina House of Representatives voted 75-42 on Monday to put a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage before voters next May.North Carolina already has a statute barring same-sex marriage, but it is the only state in ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Will "Project Runway" be staging a gay wedding episode soon?Michael Kors, a top designer and one of the long-running TV fashion show's judges, said he plans to marry his partner, Lance LePere, now that gay marriage is legal ...
JAKARTA (Reuters) - An Indonesian family stopped a wedding after discovering the groom was a woman, only for an ex-boyfriend to save their blushes by stepping in to marry the bride.Family and guests gathered to read the Koran at the Islamic ceremony ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department has dropped its opposition to joint bankruptcy petitions filed by same-sex married couples in a victory for supporters of gay marriage.The policy change is the latest setback for the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City will open its clerk's offices on Sunday, July 24, to allow same-sex couples to wed on the first day the state's gay marriage bill goes into effect, officials said on Wednesday.City clerk's offices in the ...
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (Reuters) - Rhode Island's governor on Saturday signed into law a controversial bill legalizing same sex civil unions, but said it does not go far enough toward legalizing gay marriage.Governor Lincoln Chafee, an independent who supports gay marriage, nontheless ...
