Friday, October 19, 2012

Gay marriage

  • Frank Schubert, Anti-Gay Marriage Amendment Mastermind, Crumbles Under ...

    Forget Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council. Forget Maggie Gallagher of the National Organization for Marriage. Forget even the American Family Association's bilious Bryan Fischer.

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • Gay marriage petition stirs up passionate debate at gay-friendly Gallaudet ...

    WASHINGTON - Gallaudet University is under fire from both proponents and opponents of gay marriage after placing an administrator on leave for signing a petition to put Maryland's gay-marriage law on the ballot. They say that regardless of Angela ...

    www.washingtonpost.com

  • Gay marriage polling uncertain

    Washington is one of four Democratic-oriented states that will be voting on same-sex marriage measures on Election Day - Maine, Maryland, and Minnesota are the others - and in each of them polling suggests that November could provide a breakthrough ...

    www.politico.com

  • Will gay marriage become a civil right?

    On October 18, 2012, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the federal Defense of Marriage Act. The federal law that is commonly called the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) declared on a federal level that marriage only applied to the ...

    www.examiner.com

  • More than half of US Latinos favor same-sex marriage: survey

    For the first time since the Pew Hispanic Center began asking the question in its National Survey of Latinos, more Hispanics favor allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally than oppose same-sex marriage, by 52 percent to 34 percent. As recently as ...

    www.reuters.com

  • 23 Straight Professional Athlete Allies Who Support Gay Marriage And LGBT ...

    Today marks the last day of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network's Ally Week, a week for "students to identify, support and celebrate Allies against anti-LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) language, bullying and harassment in ...

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • Iowa Court Official Accused of Gay Marriage Fraud

    A rural Iowa court official filed false documents to say she had married a same-sex couple from Florida, even though she never met the men and they had not traveled to the state for a ceremony, investigators said Thursday.

    abcnews.go.com

  • France delays debate on gay marriage and adoption, amid mounting opposition

    PARIS - France is delaying debate on a draft law authorizing gay marriage, as the government grapples with increasingly vocal opposition to the idea.

    www.washingtonpost.com

  • Vikings punter Chris Kluwe to debate a chair over gay marriage

    Most recently, he has come out strongly against an amendment that would ban gay marriage in Minnesota, where he has played since 2005.

    www.cbsnews.com

  • Knights Of Columbus And Allies Donate Millions In Fight Against Gay Marriage

    (RNS) The Knights of Columbus, a wealthy and influential Catholic charitable organization, is a leading funder in the push to make same-sex marriage illegal in four states that have ballot measures on the issue this fall, a coalition of gay rights ...

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • Hathaway Photos to Help Gay Marriage

    The 29-year-old Dark Knight Rises star will donate a portion of the proceeds from the sales of her wedding photos to Freedom to Marry, a pro-gay marriage campaign, as well as other non-profit organizations. The Freedom to Marry website reported the news.

    news.yahoo.com

  • Gay marriage leads but nail biter likely: Wash. Poll

    The state's most reliable opinion poll, published on Thursday, finds Referendum 74 with a 21-point lead, but delivers an "adjusted model" predicting a much, much closer statewide vote on same-sex marriage. The Washington Poll, which interviewed 782 ...

    blog.seattlepi.com

  • Times Co. criticized for McKenna, gay-marriage ad campaigns

    The move - which company executives described as an experiment to show the power of newspaper political advertising - drew harsh criticism from Democrats and from opponents of gay marriage, as well as from journalism and political experts. The Times ...

    seattletimes.com

  • Gay marriage will not change foes' thinking

    These are some of the realities of life that we must make the best of because there is no utopia. So, if gay marriage passes, nothing will change for us opponents, and the only thing that I see being truly equal will be the marriage license.

    www.onlinesentinel.com

  • Cuomo backs GOP senator who voted for gay marriage

    Associated Press. ALBANY, N.Y. - Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo is endorsing Republican Sen. Stephen Saland (suh-LAND'), who cast the historic 32nd vote needed a year ago to legalize gay marriage in New York. The popular governor has long said ...

    online.wsj.com

  • Gay marriage shifts through the sands of time

    And that's just a little ironic, given that Obama has spent much of his presidency undoing Clinton-era rules that limited gay rights. For example, yet another appellate court has ruled that the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional. On ...

    www.lvrj.com

  • SNP members express anger at gay marriage

    In a direct attack on Nicola Sturgeon, the Deputy First Minister who gave same-sex marriage the green light, he said ministers had rendered a public consultation on the move a "fraud" by ignoring the views of the majority.

    www.telegraph.co.uk

  • Maryland leans toward historic embrace of same-sex marriage in vote next month

    Maryland voters are poised to approve same-sex marriage at the ballot box next month, a potential watershed moment in the history of a right that has been granted by courts and state legislatures but never by a popular vote, a new Washington Post poll ...

    www.washingtonpost.com

  • APNewsBreak: Fla. man angry over gay marriage scam

    IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - A Florida man says he's angry that an Iowa court official duped him and his same-sex partner into paying for an invalid marriage license. In a phone interview Friday, Joab Penney told The Associated Press that Grundy County ...

    www.sfgate.com

  • Poll: Battle over Minnesota gay marriage ban "too close to call"

    With less than three weeks from Election Day, the battle over Minnesota's proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage is too close to call. A new poll released Wednesday by KSTP-TV and SurveyUSA shows that only 47 percent of Minnesotans ...

    sdgln.com

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