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Complaint: NY wedding site banned same-sex couple
Two upstate New York women turned away from a potential wedding site because they are gay have filed a discrimination complaint, setting up a possible ...
France delays debate on gay marriage
France is delaying debate on a draft law authorizing gay marriage, as the government grapples with increasingly vocal opposition to the idea.
Deaf university roiled by gay marriage controversy
Gallaudet University is under fire from both proponents and opponents of gay marriage after placing an administrator on leave for signing a petition ...
Gallup study: 3.4 percent of US adults are LGBT
A new Gallup survey, touted as the largest of its kind, estimates that 3.4 percent of American adults identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or ...
NY appeals court nixes Defense of Marriage Act
Saying the gay population has "suffered a history of discrimination," a divided federal appeals court in Manhattan ruled Thursday that a federal law ...
Gallaudet employee seeks reinstatement
The chief diversity officer at the nation's leading university for the deaf and hard of hearing is fighting for her job after signing a petition to ...
Democrats criticize legal spending to defend DOMA
The House's top two Democrats are criticizing Republicans for spending nearly $1.5 million over the past 15 months on outside lawyers to defend the ...
At 0-32, gay-marriage forces seek 1st win at polls
Irene Huskens has the wedding venue picked out: a charming bed-and-breakfast in southern Maryland. But the wedding is no sure thing. The plans made ...
Obama and Romney: Where they stand on the issues
A look at where Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican presidential rival Mitt Romney stand on a selection of issues, in brief: ABORTION and ...
Vote on Iowa justice seen as test for gay marriage
Iowa Supreme Court Justice David Wiggins isn't well known outside the legal community of his state, and even inside that group, isn't particularly ...
Woman bids to lead Egypt Islamist party
For the first time, a woman is running for the leadership of the political party of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's most powerful Islamist group.
SF archbishop jokes about recent DUI arrest
Amid heavy security and the splendor of his faith's most sacred rites, the new Roman Catholic archbishop of San Francisco assumed office Thursday ...
Scalia says abortion, gay rights are easy cases
Justice Antonin Scalia says his method of interpreting the Constitution makes some of the most hotly disputed issues that come before the Supreme ...
Record number of gays seeking seats in Congress
Of the four openly gay members of Congress, the two longest-serving stalwarts are vacating their seats. Instead of fretting, their activist admirers ...
Churches using 'souls to polls' to rally vote
It's not just the collection plate that's getting passed around this fall at hundreds of mainly African-American and Latino churches in presidential ...
Court won't hear anti-gay marriage group appeal
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from a national anti-gay marriage group that tried to thwart Maine's campaign disclosure ...
Justices open big term with new human rights case
The Supreme Court plunged into its new term Monday with a high-stakes dispute between businesses and human rights groups over accountability for ...
Big cases for Supreme Court term starting Monday
The Supreme Court term that begins Monday holds the prospect for major rulings about affirmative action, gay marriage and voting rights. A look at ...
Another big Supreme Court term kicks off Monday
When last we saw the chief justice of the United States on the bench, John Roberts was joining with the Supreme Court's liberals in an unlikely lineup ...
Gay couples may get reprieve in deportation cases
The Department of Homeland Security is planning to issue a policy memo stating that illegal immigrants with American same-sex partners are eligible ...
HK tycoon offers $65M dowry for gay daughter
The daughter of a flamboyant Hong Kong tycoon who has offered $65 million to any man who can woo her away from her lesbian partner said she's not ...
Gay marriage NY arguments put US lawyer on defense
A federal appeals court panel forced a Justice Department lawyer into an awkward position Thursday, making him explain the government's decision to ...
What's missing from pro-gay marriage TV ads? Gays
In one TV ad, a husband and wife talk fondly of a lesbian couple who moved into their neighborhood. In another, a married couple speaks of wanting ...
NJ gay couple to sue over political attack mailer
A gay couple from New Jersey is suing a group that used their engagement photo in an attack mailer against a Republican Colorado state lawmaker who ...
WHY IT MATTERS: Gay marriage
The issue: On one aspect of whether same-sex couples should have the right to marry, both sides agree: The issue defines what kind of nation we are.