Debate Over Same-Sex Marriage Rages On
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After 27 years together, Nancy Wilson and Paula Schoenwether got married last summer in Massachusetts, along with thousands of other same-sex couples who wanted their unions legalized.
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The Spanish government approved a bill to legalise homosexual marriages, which will make it only the third country in Europe to condone same-sex marriages -- but the move sparked fury within a still influential Roman Catholic Church.
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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's decision in February to open City Hall to thousands of gay weddings has become a subject of considerable debate among Democrats.
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A voter-approved amendment to the Louisiana state constitution banning same-sex marriages will be debated Wednesday by the state supreme court.
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Alan Keyes and Barack Obama both oppose gay marriage, but the issue produced some of the most confrontational moments of the third and final debate of their battle for the Senate.
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The Spanish government's plans to legalize same-sex marriage was lambasted by the Roman Catholic Church, the BBC reported Tuesday.
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Gay marriage appeal jilted: US Supreme Court leaves conservatives&#39; challenge of Mass. law at the altar. By Patriot Ledger staff and news services.
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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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Religious conservative leaders, sensing declining alarm over same-sex marriage, are warning that the debate over homosexuality has prompted attacks on religious freedom.
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Pope John Paul on Saturday  condemned same sex marriage as an attack on the fabric of  society and called on Catholics to combat what he said was  aggressive attempt to legally undermine the family.
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The marriage war rages, but lesbian TV hosts are all the rage
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NEW YORKâAnti-gay groups are furious over Vice President Dick Cheney&#39;s seeming dismissal of a federal ban on gay marriage, especially because President Bush himself has gone on record supporting such a ban.
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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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Republican leaders are pushing for a constitutional ban on gay marriage in the GOP platform, opening a new point of contention between social conservatives and outnumbered but vocal factions fighting to give the party's statement of principles a more moderate tone.
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A high court battle between a schoolgirl  and her head teacher over the right to wear a purity ring  pledging her to virginity until marriage has reignited debate  in Britain about how to make sex education effective.
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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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Traditionalists and gay Christians are cautious over a call for unity by the Archbishop of Canterbury amid the row about homosexual clergy.