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 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...
by John | Mar 2, 2012 | News, World news
BELTSVILLE, Md. (AP) — With Maryland legalizing gay marriage, some conservative opponents and religious leaders are counting on members of their congregations, especially in black churches, to upend the legislation at the polls this fall. Many African American church...
by John | Feb 25, 2012 | News, World news
Young people overwhelmingly support right of gays to marry but conservative opponents vow to fight trend at the polls, writes Curtis Tate. With supporters of same-sex marriage racking up victories in state legislatures and federal courts, the long battle over the...
