by John | Mar 2, 2013 | News, Overseas marriages & Australian civil unions, World news
Mar. 1, 2013 — There is no valid scientific basis for denying same-sex couples the right to legal marriage, or to deprive them of considerable benefits of the institution, according to legal briefs filed with the U.S. Supreme Court by the American Psychological...
by John | Mar 2, 2013 | News, Overseas marriages & Australian civil unions, World news
WASHINGTON: Barack Obama’s administration has urged the US Supreme Court to reinstate same-sex marriage in California, taking a stand in a historic case that could lead to weddings of gay couples across the US. The filing adds a potentially powerful voice to the...
by John | Mar 1, 2013 | News, Overseas marriages & Australian civil unions, Uncategorized, World news
WASHINGTON: The Obama administration is asking the Supreme Court to overturn California’s ban on gay marriage and take a sceptical view of similar bans elsewhere, wading into a case that could have broad implications for the right of same-sex couples to wed. The...
by John | Mar 1, 2013 | News, Overseas marriages & Australian civil unions, World news
As New Zealand moves a step closer to legalising gay marriage, a Samoan church minister in Auckland has said most Pacific Island-New Zealanders are strongly opposed to its legalisation. Word of Life Church minister, Reverend Tavale Mataia, told Radio Australia’s...
by John | Feb 28, 2013 | News, Overseas marriages & Australian civil unions, World news
Three hundred sixty-three thousand and fifty-three dollars was the amount that Edith Windsor was assessed in federal estate taxes when her wife, Thea Spyer, died in 2009. Zero dollars, everyone agrees, would have been the amount she owed if the federal government had...
by John | Feb 27, 2013 | News, Overseas marriages & Australian civil unions, World news
Scores of corporations will file a Supreme Court brief favoring gay marriage later this week. Signatories will include Apple, Facebook, Intel, and Morgan Stanley. FORTUNE — On Thursday, dozens of American corporations, including Apple, Alcoa, Facebook, eBay,...
