Gay Marriage
Feb 24 2011, Marco Villa

One beneficial byproduct of the Tea Party movement, and the economic recession period generally, is the subsiding of the nation’s bitter culture wars. The Tea Partiers sought to downplay social issues in order to unite a board tent under the banner of...

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Jack, Los Angeles
Gay couples legally married in other states cannot get a divorce in Texas, where same-sex marriage is banned, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday. The 5th Texas Court...
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Oscar, Oaxaca
In a press release, the Archdiocese of Mexico City criticized the country’s Supreme Court for ruling in favor of the constitutionality of same-sex “marriage” in...
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Oscar, Oaxaca
Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a law allowing same-sex marriages in Mexico City is constitutional, rejecting an appeal by federal prosecutors who...
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Mexico City’s gay community has in recent decades turned the capital into a relative oasis in a strongly Catholic country reknowned for its conservatism and...
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Prince, Columbus
Thousands of demonstrators opposed to same-sex marriage have gathered outside Argentina’s congress ahead of a key vote by lawmakers. Supporters of the measure...
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Kelly, Philadelphia
Lawsuits over gay marriage have escalated on the nation’s two coasts, energizing advocates on both sides and bringing the legal battle over same-sex marriage...
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Erick, Los Angeles
The federal law banning gay marriage is unconstitutional because it interferes with the right of a state to define the institution and therefore denies married gay...
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Icelandic Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir has married her long-term partner, her office said on Monday, making her the world’s first national leader with a...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Laura Bush - like most southerners and Texans of her time - was raised in a Democratic household. But when she met and married George W. Bush she had to change party...
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Leonardo, Buenos Aires
The reactions of those gathered outside the congress chamber clearly signalled which way the vote had gone. On one side, gay rights activists sang, cheered and waved...
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Oscar, Oaxaca
Official figures show that 88 gay couples have married in Mexico City since same-sex marriage was legalised last month.
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Prabhunarayan, Pondicherry
In a bold step that took the state by complete surprise, a gay couple went ahead and tied the nuptial knot. A small step by two individuals but a giant stride for the...
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Shane, Mexico City
Five gay and lesbian couples were married in Mexico City on Thursday, the first such ceremonies since a law went into effect this month legalizing same-sex marriage in...
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A law allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry comes into effect on Thursday in Mexico City. The law, which was passed by the city’s local assembly in December,...
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Oscar, Oaxaca
On Friday, Mexico’s Supreme Court chose to dismiss three of six challenges facing Mexico City’s gay marriage law. The legislation, which was passed in...
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Elard, Lima
Five homosexual couples had a symbolic wedding in Peru on Valentine’s Day, as part of their public actions advocating for their legal rights to get married. The...
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Shahzaib, Nairobi
The widespread controversy over gay rights in Africa continues as protests in Mtwapa, Kenya, brought a halt to what was hoped to be the country’s first gay...
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Police in Malawi say they have arrested a man in what they describe as a sweep against homosexuals. There is a debate over gay rights in this conservative southern...
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Steven, Liverpool
The Malawi authorities have told gay activists who put up posters and distribute leaflets on the streets anonymously to “come out in the open”. Government...
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Oscar, Oaxaca
Angela Alfarache and Ivonne Cervantes met at a party 16 years ago and have been a couple ever since, filling their lives with books and writing and friends. After their...
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Federal prosecutors in Mexico City announced yesterday they would seek to overturn the city’s new gay marriage law on the grounds that it is unconstitutional. A...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
When the California Supreme Court ruled in favor of gay marriage in the summer of 2008, proponents were ecstatic. Although California would not be the first state to...
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Nuno, Lisbon
Portugal’s parliament passed a bill Friday that would make the predominantly Catholic nation the sixth in Europe to permit gay marriage.
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Geoffrey, Kampala
A Ugandan lawmaker on Friday refused to withdraw proposed legislation that would impose the death penalty for some gays and lesbians despite international condemnation...
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Andrew, Lilongwe
Two Malawian men became the first gay couple to publicly tie the knot, the Nation newspaper reported on Monday, risking arrest in the conservative southern African...
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Tony, Mexico City
Mexico City lawmakers on Monday made the city the first in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage, a change that will give homosexual couples more rights,...
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Emilio, Buenos Aires
Latin America’s first same-sex marriage, set to be held in Argentina on Tuesday, appeared derailed after a judge filed an injunction to stop the union until the...
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Marcos, Buenos Aires
An Argentine judge put a hold Monday on another court’s decision to permit the first gay marriage in Latin America, but supporters of the couple said they would...
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Chad, Tempe
The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington said Wednesday that it will be unable to continue the social service programs it runs for the District if the city doesn’t...
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John, New York
Maine residents will have their say Tuesday in the nationwide debate over gay marriage. Voters there will decide whether or not to uphold a law that was signed in May...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Thuggish Liberalism. That is the phrase conservative columnist George Will has coined to describe the left-wing’s new war on opponents. Liberals like to feign...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
A while back I wrote about the ambitious of San Francisco’s mayor to become governor of California: The young mayor captured national attention in early 2004...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Specter is not gay lest the title mislead you. But he is a shameless opportunist. Originally a Democrat, he became a Republican senator and this year switched back to a...
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John, New York
The fierce fight over same-sex marriage in California and elsewhere is creating pressure to recognize a new free-speech right that could keep petition signatures...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
The Census is one of those all American rituals like barbecues on the Fourth of July or blaming fretting that some new group or foreigners is plotting to take over the...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
It was almost become like clockwork. Republicans who have spent years preaching morality and against the “decadence” of liberal culture, feminism and gay...
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Matt Wendus, Arlington
I’m not gay. I know barely one iota about what it’s like to be gay. But I’ve heard bits and pieces. And some of those bits say, it’s not so easy...
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Jill Starr, bloomingdale
The Politics of Protesting Gay Marriage in America In seemingly unending arguments for or against gay marriage in America, we hear continual reverberations of...
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