Canada Unveils Explosive Gay Marriage Legislation
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Canada's minority government unveiled  draft legislation to permit gay marriage on Tuesday, taking a  political gamble on a social issue that has split the country  and the ruling Liberal Party.
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The Supreme Court of Canada gave the  federal government the go-ahead on Thursday to legalize gay  marriage, prompting Prime Minister Paul Martin to announce  plans to introduce a redefinition of marriage early next year.
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The Spanish government is set to approve a controversial draft law legalising gay marriages.
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Canada's Supreme Court tells the government it can legalise gay marriage without violating the constitution.
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Canada's Parliament upheld a 2005 law allowing same-sex marriage on Thursday when it threw out a bid by the minority Conservative government to revisit the contentious issue.
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SASKATOON (CP) - Saskatchewan became the seventh Canadian jurisdiction to allow same-sex marriages Friday after a judge ruled the current federal law on the subject unconstitutional.
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Gay marriage opponents launched a petition drive Monday in hopes of persuading lawmakers to amend the state constitution to include a definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
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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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Colombia's Congress approved a bill late on Thursday granting same-sex couples rights similar to their straight counterparts, a move seen as the biggest advance for homosexuals in this Roman Catholic country.
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FREDERICTON (CP) - The Liberal government will defiantly push ahead with plans to introduce a same-sex marriage bill next week in the face of increasingly vocal opposition from critics outside and inside the party.
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DUBLIN -- A lesbian couple who wed in Canada can seek to have their union legally recognized in Ireland, a judge ruled yesterday in a case he predicted would have deep consequences for this predominantly Catholic country.
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The Italian Cabinet on Thursday approved proposed legislation granting legal rights to unmarried couples in both heterosexual and same-sex relationships.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Canada&#39;s top court says Ottawa has the authority to redefine marriage to include same-sex couples, but religious officials cannot be forced to perform unions against their beliefs.
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Five women and one married man are ordained in Toronto in a ceremony that openly defies Catholic doctrine.
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Gay couples in New Hampshire will able to join in civil unions starting next year under a bill Gov. John Lynch signed into law Thursday.
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The right by homosexual couples to adopt children will reportedly be added to draft legislation legalizing gay marriages to be adopted Friday by Spain's Socialist government.
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TORONTO, Dec. 7 -- Canada's House of Commons rejected a move Thursday by Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper to reopen debate on a national law permitting same-sex marriages.