New Jersey voters favor gay civil union law: poll
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Sixty percent of New Jersey voters support a law allowing same-sex couples to form civil unions, but half oppose a law allowing gay marriage, according to a poll on Thursday.
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Voters in eleven US states voted overwhelmingly to slap constitutional bans on gay marriage, one of the hottest issues in this year's presidential poll, early results showed.
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Under pressure from New Jersey's highest court to offer marriage or its equivalent to gay couples, lawmakers gathered on Thursday to vote on whether to create civil unions.
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New Jersey voters think there is more to the resignation of Gov. James E. McGreevey than what he has told them, and it has little to do with his sexual activities, according to a poll released Monday.
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Facing pressure from the state's top court, the New Jersey Legislature voted Thursday to give gay and lesbian couples the rights and privileges of marriage, while using the term "civil unions" to describe the partnerships.
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MADRID A law that would give gay and lesbian couples the same right to marry, divorce and adopt children as heterosexuals was approved by Spain&#39;s Socialist government Friday.
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NEW ORLEANS - Louisiana voters overwhelmingly approved a state constitutional amendment Saturday banning same-sex marriages and civil unions, one of up to 12 such measures on the ballot around the country this year.    With 95 percent of precincts reporting, the amendment was winning approval with 79 percent of the vote and support for it was evident statewide...
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When it comes to statewide votes on gay marriage, the score so far is 20-0 in favor of keeping it a one-man, one-woman institution.
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So, the governor of New Jersey is gay. After reading through chat rooms of New Jersey residents, I was apparently the only one who did not know this.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 5 -- A state appeals court ruled Thursday that California's ban on same-sex marriage does not violate the constitutional rights of gay men and lesbians, a critical defeat to a movement hungry for a win after high courts in New York and Washington state upheld similar bans.
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In nearly a dozen states Tuesday, voters sent the loud, clear message that they think marriage should be reserved for unions between a man and a woman.
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Voters on Sunday cast ballots on a referendum that would repeal a Western-brokered law that effectively grants local autonomy to the country's ethnic Albanians.
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Shortly after midnight, Steven Goldstein and Daniel Gross renewed their vows as New Jersey became the third state in the nation to offer civil unions for gay couples.
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TRENTON, New Jersey  - Lawmakers in the U.S. state of New Jersey legalized same-sex civil unions on Thursday to give gay and lesbian couples the same rights as marriage but would not allow such partnerships to be called "marriage".
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Gay rights groups praised the US Supreme Court for refusing to intervene in a Massachusetts decision allowing gay marriage while religious conservatives
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Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday praised a recent demonstration in Rome against proposed legislation granting legal rights to unmarried couples, including gay ones, saying it showed that traditional family was at the core of Italian society.
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TRENTON -- Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry has failed to get much traction with voters in New Jersey. Six days before the election President George W. Bush has closed a four-point gap from a week