by John | Jun 9, 2012 | News, World news
Same-sex couples will be able to be married in Danish churches as soon as June 15 while those in civil partnerships will automatically be granted the status as ‘married’. Updated 7/6, 15:34 – Parliament passed a law legalising same sex marriage this...
by John | Jun 8, 2012 | News, World news
The Danish parliament has approved equal marriage laws 85 to 24 today, reports said today. Members of the sole house of the Folketing approved the gender-neutral marriage legislation today after an opposition amendment creating a separate system of marriage for gay...
by John | Jun 7, 2012 | News, World news
The Greens are putting more pressure on the New Zealand government to pass a law allowing same-sex couples to marry after a poll showed public support for the move. A One News poll conducted by Colmar Brunton found that 63 per cent of New Zealanders think same-sex...
by John | Jun 4, 2012 | News, World news
As the Illinois civil unions law turned one June 1, the nearly 5,000 couples throughout the state who registered for a license over the past year have encountered many legal and everyday life obstacles that reminds them a civil union is different from marriage – the...
by John | Jun 3, 2012 | News, World news
The Conservative faction of American Judaism has formally come out in support of equal marriage, nearly six years after lifting a ban on ordaining gay men and women as rabbis. The Rabbinical Assembly’s Committee on Jewish Law and Standards (CJLS) ruled unanimously,...
by John | Jun 2, 2012 | News, World news
The French prime minister Jean-Marc Ayrault told a French television station this morning a change in legislation to allow gay couples to marry and adopt children will be done ‘quickly’ and that a draft is ‘ready’. According to French news website Yagg.com, M Ayrault...
