MSN: Gay Marriage

Mary Cheney, the openly gay first daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, gave hundreds of dollars in campaign contributions to a Senate candidate who opposes same-sex marriage, records show. Cheney gave $500 on ...

Despite a majority opposing gay marriage specifically, most believe there should be some form of legal recognition for same-sex marriages (66 percent). 37 percent of voters think gays and lesbians should be allowed to ...

A new poll finds a large majority (59%) of Rhode Islanders support gay marriage. The poll of 500 registered voters was commissioned by the Boston-based group Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD). When ...

Marriage equality bills have stalled in the Rhode Island legislature every year since 1997. But a new poll in the state shows that 59 percent of voters support marriage equality . “The poll, with a sample size of 500 ...

San Diego's 10News reports that 13 people have been arrested at a sit-in at the San Diego County Clerk's office after two gay couples tried and failed to obtain marriage licenses: "Thirteen people were arrested Thursday ...

Gay marriage has popped up as the surprise question in the Australian election campaign, with Prime Minister Julia Gillard and her right-leaning opponent Tony Abbott repeatedly challenged on the issue. Gillard, an ...

A supporter of same-sex marriage holds American and gay pride flags as he awaits a decision to lift a stay that would allow same-sex couples to marry in California on August 12, 2010 in San Francisco. A US court has ...

Earlier this year, historian Robert Perkinson published Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire (Henry Holt and Company, 496 pp., $35), in which he traces the history of American prisons through the prism of the ...

SAN DIEGO - A crowd of demonstrators who gathered in front of the county clerk's office Thursday, demanding the issuance of marriage licenses for same-sex couples were arrested after refusing orders to disperse. The ...

California Republican gubernatorial nominee Meg Whitman on Friday told the Sacramento Bee that, if elected, she would defend Proposition 8, which prohibits marriage equality in the state, by appealing a ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I., Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Almost six out of 10 Rhode Island residents support allowing same-sex couples to marry, a poll indicates. The poll released Wednesday showed growing support for same-sex ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The federal judge who overturned California’s same-sex marriage ban has more bad news for the measure’s backers: He doubts they have the right to challenge his ruling that gay couples can begin ...

In filing its challenge to Wisconsin's domestic partnership law, a group opposed to gay rights claims it's too similar to marriage. “The same-sex only, statewide domestic partnership registry mimics marriage ...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Aug. 16 blocked any same-sex marriages from taking place in California while proponents of the state’s marriage ban appeal the Aug. 4 district-court ruling that found ...

SAN DIEGO - Nine demonstrators who gathered in front of the county clerk's office Thursday to demand marriage licenses for same-sex couples were arrested after refusing orders to disperse, authorities reported. The ...

A US court has blocked same-sex marriages in California until at least December while an appeal of a landmark decision to overturn a state ban is considered. A supporter of same-sex marriage holds American and gay pride ...

Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard has filed suit against a cardinal who claims Ebrard bought a Supreme Court ruling in favor of gay marriage, the Spanish news agency EFE reported. Ebrard filed his suit ...

GUADALAJARA, August 19, 2010 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - A spokesman for the Archdiocese of Guadalajara yesterday told reporters that the Cardinal Archbishop of that city has proof to back up his contention that the justices ...

Mayor Marcelo Ebrard of Mexico City on Wednesday filed a civil suit claiming defamation against Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iniguez of Guadalajara, upping the ante in a high-profile political spat over gay marriage ...

Mayor Marcelo Ebrard of Mexico City on Wednesday filed a civil suit claiming defamation against Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iniguez of Guadalajara, upping the ante in a high-profile political spat over gay marriage ...