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US gears up for historic gay marriage trial
in a historic ruling on same-sex marriage in the United States has begun at a federal court in San Francisco. The case, brought by two San Francisco couples, disputes the ban on same-sex marriage in California. Gay ... same-sex marriage in a 2008 referendum, this position was reversed. Advocates of same ...
Court rejects Russian lesbians' Canada marriage
their marriage in Canada recognised by a Moscow court, after a judge dismissed their argument that Russian law recognises foreign marriages. Public relations worker Irina Fyet, 30, and beauty parlour owner Irina Shepitko, 32, married in Toronto in October after an application for a marriage licence in Moscow ...
Portugal parliament backs same-sex marriage
The Portuguese parliament has passed a law that legalises same-sex marriage, becoming the sixth country in Europe ... and rejected by the centre-right opposition. The law gives gay marriages the same rights as heterosexual marriages, including those on taxes, inheritance and housing, but does not grant them the right to adopt ...
California gay marriage case highlights hurt, hope
on same-sex marriage on Monday said their relationships had lasted for years but they felt like third ... on same-sex marriage all the way to the US Supreme Court and to overturn bans throughout the nation ... undermine efforts to win gay marriage rights in state courts. The United States is divided on same ...
Gay marriage ban goes on trial in California
gay marriage.jpg California's ban on gay marriage goes to trial ... not choose to take the case if it is appealed that far, would make marriage a fundamental constitutional right without exception and overturn laws and state amendments limiting marriage to a man and a woman ...
Mexico City legalises gay marriage
gaypride mexico.jpg Mexico City's legislature has approved civil marriages ... marriage between them. Homosexuals are to be granted the same rights as heterosexuals, including, for example, the right to adopt children. Same-sex marriage is a sensitive subject in Roman Catholic ...
Dutch MPs want same-sex marriage in Antilles
to the government by the GreenLeft party to work towards achieving this goal. Same-sex marriage is already ... -sex marriage a status on a par with marriage between a man and woman, a ruling which met with a positive ... marriage, same-sex marriages) ...
Fashion fine - France wants to ban the burqa
to be gay - Portugal says yes to same sex marriage. Coming in from the cold - how Britain is dealing ... ban, Network Europe, same-sex marriage, winter 2009/2010) ...
Argentina stalls on gay marriage
same-sex marriage in Latin America. Two Argentinian men were due to tie the knot in Buenos Aires today ... if officials refuse to seal their union. (human rights, Same sex marriage, same-sex marriages, South ...
Sweden ordains first lesbian bishop
allowed to marry in Sweden since May. The Lutheran church supports single sex marriages and recently agreed to church blessings of these marriages. Eva Brunne (55) has a three-year-old foster child and is in a registered partnership with another woman. (gay and lesbian marriage, lesbian bishops, Lutheran ...
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