11 states approve ban on gay unions
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In nearly a dozen states yesterday, 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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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday allowed Florida to continue barring gay men and lesbians from adopting children under a law that is the only one of its kind in the nation.
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WASHINGTON - Gay marriage is emerging as a big enough issue in several states to influence races both for Congress and the presidency.    Ballot initiatives on banning same-sex marriages are expected to propel social conservatives to the polls in 11 states, including four presidential battlegrounds: Arkansas, Ohio, Michigan and Oregon...
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Florida is the only state banning gay adoption, but lawmakers in several others are debating similar measures.
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Gay couples should be allowed to marry  because the state's constitution guarantees equality for all, a  New York judge said on Friday in a ruling that could eventually  clear the way for same-sex unions in New York.
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CONCORD, New Hampshire  - New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch signed a law on Thursday allowing same-sex civil unions that give gays and lesbians nearly the same rights as married couples.
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The Washington Supreme Court upheld the state's ban on gay marriage Wednesday, dealing the gay rights movement its second major defeat in less than a month in another liberal-leaning state that had been regarded as a promising battleground.
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A state appeals court ruled Monday that a proposed amendment to the state Constitution banning gay marriage should remain on the ballot, overturning a lower court ruling and sending the issue to the state Supreme Court.
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Ordered by New Jersey's highest court to offer marriage or its equivalent to gay couples, the Legislature voted Thursday to make New Jersey the third state to allow civil unions.
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On the day after voters in 11 states delivered a resounding rebuke to the concept of gay marriage, the liberal city that helped make same-sex unions an election year issue assessed the role its exuberant, two-month wedding march may have played in
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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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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 5 - A California appeals court upheld on Thursday the state's ban on same-sex marriage, 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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DES MOINES, Iowa  -- Two men sealed the state's first legal same-sex marriage with a kiss Friday morning, less than 24 hours after a judge threw out Iowa's ban on gay marriage and about two hours before he put that ruling on hold.
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Canada OTTAWA -- While 11 US states voted to ban gay marriage this week, the practice is now legal in a majority of Canada's provinces, the result of a court decision in Saskatchewan yesterday. The court made Saskatchewan the sixth of Canada's 10 provinces to allow gay marriage, ruling that the heterosexual-only definition of marriage is unconstitutional. Only in the ...
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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 Friday.
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Of the 11 states considering the issue, all 11 passed resolutions limiting state sanction marriages to one man and one woman. The measures passed by large margins in every state including Oregon, where gay-rights activists had hoped to prevail.
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BOSTON - A state judge upheld a 1913 law that prohibits out-of-state gay couples from marrying in Massachusetts, where same-sex marriage between residents has been legal since May.    The eight couples who filed the lawsuit - from Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine and New York - sought a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of the statute, claiming it is inherently discriminatory...