New Jersey legalises gay unions
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New Jersey's state legislature legalises same-sex civil unions, but says they cannot be called marriages.
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New Hampshire is becoming the fourth state to legalize civil unions and about 20 couples decided to be the first to take advantage of the new law with a late-night ceremony on the Statehouse steps.
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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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South Africa's deputy president signs a new law giving same-sex couples the right to marry from Friday.
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TRENTON, New Jersey  - New Jersey on Thursday became the first U.S. state to legislatively abolish the death penalty since the Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976.
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Gov. Jon S. Corzine signed a law on Monday making New Jersey the first state in four decades to abolish the death penalty.
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New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey&#39;s gay declaration of independence, when he advanced downstage to muse about his inner turmoil, brought an oddly Shakespearean turn to the national soap opera. The difference is that when Shakespeare&#39;s Richard ...
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(Ottawa) The Supreme Court of Canada this morning gave its approval to draft legislation to make same-sex marriage legal throughout Canada.
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Referendums that would ban same-sex marriage were approved in all 11 states where they were on the ballot yesterday. Although both President
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The Illinois House on Tuesday passed a bill that bans discrimination against gays and sent it to Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who has said he supports the measure.
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A controversial law that would give gay and lesbian couples the same right to marry, divorce and adopt children as heterosexuals was approved by Spain's Socialist government on Friday.
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The New Jersey Legislature passed a bill Thursday that set ambitious goals for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases.
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A lesbian couple who wed in Canada were to learn yesterday whether an Irish court would hear their case to have their union legally recognized in Ireland, where homosexuality itself was outlawed until a decade ago.
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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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New Jersey lawmakers approved the stateâs s most sweeping measures yet in its efforts to be a leader in stem-cell research.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 14 -- With a mandate from New Jersey's highest court to offer gay couples the same rights as heterosexuals, the state legislature voted Thursday to create civil unions but stopped short of using the word "marriage."
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BOGOTA, Colombia, June 15 -- Colombia's Congress voted to recognize gay unions, approving a bill to give same-sex couples full rights to health insurance, social security and inheritance benefits. The measure would make Colombia the first country in Latin America to extend such rights to gay...