by Jen | Oct 17, 2014 | News, Overseas marriages & Australian civil unions, World news
A federal judge on Sunday struck down Alaska’s first-in-the-nation ban on same-sex marriages, the latest court decision in a busy week for the issue across the country.
by Jen | Oct 17, 2014 | News, World news
The date the first gay and lesbian couples will be able to marry in Scotland has been announced as New Year’s Eve 2014.
by Carol Burger | Oct 14, 2014 | World news
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says same-sex marriage can go ahead in Idaho. The court issued an order Friday that appears to remove the last legal obstacle keeping gay and lesbian couples from getting married in the conservative state. The federal appeals court...
by Carol Burger | Oct 14, 2014 | AME Talks, World news
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal judge in North Carolina has struck down the state’s gay marriage ban, opening the way for the first same-sex weddings in the state to begin immediately. U.S. District Court Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr., in Asheville issued a ruling...
by Carol Burger | Oct 10, 2014 | AME Talks, World news
Whoopi Goldberg called the Supreme Court’s decision on same-sex marriage “spectacular,” and let conservative Christians know that marriage equality is coming — whether they’re “comfortable with it or not.”
by Carol Burger | Oct 10, 2014 | AME Talks, World news
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster says he won’t appeal a ruling that Missouri must recognize same-sex marriages legally performed in other states. Koster made the announcement Monday afternoon, several hours after the Supreme Court turned...