Gay marriage dealt defeat in California
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A state appeals court upheld California's ban on gay marriage Thursday, a critical defeat for a movement hungry for a win after similar losses in two other states.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 22 -- Ten months after San Francisco's mayor defiantly granted marriage licenses to thousands of gay couples, a judge began hearing arguments Wednesday in a pair of lawsuits that seek to have California's one-man, one-woman matrimony law declared unconstitutional.
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The House emphatically rejected a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage Thursday, the latest in a string of conservative pet causes advanced by Republican leaders in the run-up to Election Day.
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The US House of Representatives failed on Thursday to muster the two-thirds majority needed to pass a proposed constitutional amendment backed by President Bush to ban gay marriage.
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With their same-sex marriages yanked away by the California Supreme Court, many gay and lesbian couples were left wondering Friday what will happen to the benefits they briefly received, such as family insurance discounts and medical coverage.
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Gay and lesbian advocates have been doing some soul-searching since President Bush's election victory, wondering if same-sex wedding marches through San Francisco and Massachusetts tipped the scales to Republicans promising to restore traditional values.
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The resolution puts the California diocese in lockstep with more conservative Anglican churches.
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The Republican-controlled House emphatically defeated a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage Thursday, the latest in a string of conservative pet causes pushed to a vote by GOP leaders in the run-up to Election Day.
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Far from the coastal strongholds of the same-sex marriage movement, gays in the red states of the Bible Belt are struggling to maintain confidence and optimism in the aftermath of an election that many viewed as a stinging personal rebuff.
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In another setback for defenders of same-sex marriage, the US state of Washington ruled that a law defining marriage as strictly between a man and a woman does not violate the state constitution.
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The US House of Representatives today solidly defeated the Marriage Protection Amendment, formerly the Federal Marriage Amendment.
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A year that brought gay and lesbian couples hope, when the potential for legitimate marriage seemed euphorically within reach, came to a dispiriting end for many of them Tuesday at the ballot box.
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More than two years after a Massachusetts court cleared the way for gay couples to marry, the issue faces its most serious challenge yet &amp;#151; this time in the Legislature.
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The legal fight over same-sex marriage has shifted to Southern California now that a lawsuit filed by a gay couple from suburban Orange County is the only remaining challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
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A proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage in Michigan failed Monday to win certification that would put the issue before voters in November.
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A California appeals court upheld the state's ban on same-sex marriage on Thursday, reversing a lower court's judgment against a voter-approved law defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman.
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The Supreme Court has refused to intervene on behalf of a handful of religious extremists whose feelings were hurt by gay marriage in Massachusetts... The US Supreme Court has rejected without comment an appeal