Entries from Byline Portal tagged with 'Gay Marriage'
This Lily-Livered Marriage Bill Must Make Room for All of Us
by Gaby Hinsliff, Guardian, UK - Gay people are still being denied marriage, while straight people are deserting it in droves. The institution itself is a mess....
On (Gay) Marriage, Divorce and Statistics
by Nora Ephron, The Nation, USA - My friend Merrill Markoe once wrote that one of the most compelling reasons to hope that gay marriage becomes legal is that gays may end up doing for marriage what they do for...
The Non-Case against Gay Parenting
by Jill Filipovic, Guardian, UK - This methodologically suspect study is a rearguard effort to arm opponents of same-sex marriage, but it doesn't stand scrutiny....
Same-Sex Marriage Brings Healing to Me—and My Tribe
by Madeline Ostrander, Yes!, USA - Heather Purser set out to win gay marriage rights within the Suquamish Tribe and found herself on a personal journey toward self-acceptance....
Map: The State of Marriage Equality in America
by Samantha Oltman, Mother Jones, USA - Where in the United States do gay people have the right to get hitched?...
Catholic Priests, Celibacy, and the Marriage Loophole
by Sara Ritchey, Religion Dispatches, USA - The growth in number of married Catholic priests in the U.S. stems from the increasing animosity of conservative Episcopalians who disagree primarily with the Anglican Communion’s ordination and promotion to the episcopacy of...
Brazil: Despite Historic Victory, Gay Rights Struggle Far from Over
by Fabiana Frayssinet, IPS, Italy - Although gay rights organisations in Brazil are celebrating a historic triumph, legal recognition of civil unions by the Supreme Court, they say the struggle is far from over....
Brazil: Internet Users Commemorate Legal Recognition of Gay Civil Unions
by Paula Góes, Global Voices, Netherlands - Brazil's Supreme Court recognized civil unions for same-sex couples [pt]. In a unanimous decision, the justices stated that stable homosexual couples merit the same rights and obligations that Brazilian legislation grants to heterosexual...
French Lesbians' Ten-Year Battle to Marry Hits Another Hurdle
by Florence Villeminot, France 24, France - A lesbian couple’s ten-year legal battle looks set to continue after France's Constitutional Council upheld the country's ban on homosexual marriage Friday....
Gay Black Church: Radically Inclusive and Spirit-Filled
by Lisa Webster, Religion Dispatches, USA - "If we’re going to really have a conversation about civil rights, and marriage rights, and equal rights for same gender loving and transgender people, we have to go back further in history and...
Love and Marriage: Gay Couples Speak Out
by Stephanie Glaros, Utne Reader, USA - Inspired by her disappointment last year in the New York Senate’s vote against a bill that would allow gay marriage, Utne Reader cover artist Zina Saunders “decided to interview and paint long-standing gay...
Supreme Court Upholds Non-Discrimination Against Gays
by Daniela Pastrana, IPS, Italy - In the last two weeks, Mexico's Supreme Court has taken two fundamental steps in recognising the rights of gays and lesbians. On Monday, it voted to uphold a Mexico City law that allows same-sex...
Why Straight People Should Be Following the Prop. 8 Federal Trial
by Audrey Bilger, Huffington Post, USA - The marriage equality debate is not just about gays and lesbians; it's about the freedom of everyone to set the terms of their own life....
The Case for Gay Rights
by Rachel Maddow, MSNBC, USA - As recently as 1996, gay marriage was seen as a fundamentally conservative idea....
COLOMBIA: Equal Rights for Same-Sex Partners
by Helda Martínez, IPS, Italy - Members of the gay civil rights advocacy group Colombia Diversa just celebrated their fifth anniversary with a big event, which the occasion clearly merited due to a recent landmark decision by the Constitutional Court...
Gay Leaders Debate Taking Marriage Fight to 2010 Ballot
by Lisa Leff, Common Dreams, USA - Gay rights activists are weighing the wisdom of rushing in front of voters a repeal of the state ballot measure that banned gay marriage....
California Proposition 8—We Take It Personally
by Jaime and Amy Todd-Gher, Women's Media Center, USA - Riding the subway home from Manhattan to Brooklyn on Election Night 2008 was a ride like no other. We fell into a car filled with African-American gay men and their...
A Big Gay Mormon Wedding
by Jeanne Carstensen, Salon, USA - The Church of Latter-day Saints has pumped millions into Proposition 8 to ban gay marriage. But for one devout family, the politics are personal....
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