A divided Delaware state Senate voted Tuesday to make their state the 11th in the nation to allow same-sex marriage, after hearing hours of passionate testimony from supporters and opponents.
The Senate’s 12-9 vote sends the bill to Democratic Gov.
Cardinal Dolan’s ‘Dirty Freddy’ Story Was No Joke
Catholic bishop warns against attending same-sex weddings
File under: Sour Grapes. Really, Bishop? It’s God who looks unfavorably upon marriage equality? Really? Remember when pious Catholics were warned not to attend marriages between a man and a woman but were held in non-Catholic settings? Was God pissed
Rhode Island Is Final New England State to Approve Gay Marriage
By Annie Linskey
On the subject of same-sex marriage, New England is now united.
Rhode Island became the 10th U.S. state and final one in the region to legalize gay weddings today, after its House of Representatives approved a bill
In bizarre move, bishop who ousted gay catholic from parish rejects 18,000 signatures, sends them back
File under: insulated, monolithic, callous, tone deaf church power structure
by Ross Murray
On April 11, Nicholas Coppola delivered over 18,000 signatures gathered through Faithful America to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre, asking that Nicholas be once again
Same-sex marriage: France changes law
The French parliament has approved a bill legalising same-sex marriage and adoption, following a divisive public debate.
France becomes the 14th country to pass a law allowing gay marriage, and follows New Zealand last week.
Opponents of the move have
New Zealand legalises same-sex marriage
New Zealand’s parliament has legalised same-sex marriage, the first country in the Asia-Pacific region to do so.
Lawmakers approved the bill, amending the 1955 marriage act, despite opposition from Christian lobby groups.
The bill was passed with a wide majority,
Constitutional convention backs extension of marriage rights to same-sex couples
By Ruadhan Mac Cormaic
The constitutional convention has voted overwhelmingly in favour of extending marriage rights to same-sex couples.
Some 79 per cent of members voted to recommend that the constitution be amended to allow for same-sex marriage, with 19
‘Marriage has nothing to do with love’: Catholic League President Bill Donohue talks gay marriage
The word is out!
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