by John | Apr 12, 2012 | News, World news
LONDON — Americans watching the latest push for social change in Britain might feel as if they had stepped into an alternate political universe: Here, the Conservatives are leading the charge for same-sex marriage. Gay couples in Britain won the right to civil...
by John | Mar 31, 2012 | News, World news
Just a few years ago, House Republicans were trying to etch their opposition of gay marriage into the Constitution. Now? They’re almost silent. It’s been one of the swiftest shifts in ideology and strategy for Republicans, as they’ve come nearly full circle on...
by John | Mar 22, 2012 | News, World news
BOSTON, March 21 (Reuters) – New Hampshire lawmakers easily defeated a bill on Wednesday that would have been the first step toward reversing the state’s three-year-old law allowing same-sex marriage. The bill, an attempt to repeal a law that made gay...
by John | Mar 22, 2012 | News, World news
HELSINKI (Reuters) – A group of Finnish lawmakers proposed an amendment on Wednesday that would legalize same-sex marriage, the strongest bid yet by politicians to allow such unions in the country – the most conservative of the Nordic nations. Same-sex...
by John | Mar 18, 2012 | News, World news
BREAKING: Obama campaign releases statement opposing Amendment One (+ a back story) Well, naysayers out there who said that the President would not say a peep about the discriminatory Amendment One in NC because it’s an election year (even though he did so in 2008 for...
by John | Mar 15, 2012 | News, World news
Denmark has announced that marriage equality will come to the country as of June 15 this year. At a press conference, Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt announced that gay couples would be allowed to marry in time for the European summer, the Copenhagen Post...
