Greensboro, North Carolina The chair of Guilford County’s Republican Party is refusing to back down from comments that link homosexuality with pedophilia. “In America today our churches have degraded their beliefs so much that the ordinary citizen sees no need to attend a worship service, because he sees and hears the same thing on Opra [...]
Supporters of same-sex marriage are gearing up with their own campaign to make Florida’s marriage laws gay-friendly while a Wednesday deadline looms for opponents to file a ballot measure that would prevent marriage equality. The Florida Coalition To Protect Marriage has been passing around a flurry of petitions to try to meet their deadline to [...]
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on Monday ruled that Attorney General Thomas Reilly did not act illegally when he certified the wording on a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would ban same-sex marriage. The ruling was the third major setback to gays and lesbians across the country in less than a week. Massachusetts [...]
Pope Benedict XVI wasted no time in defending the Vatican’s vision of marriage as a union of man and woman. “The family is a unique institution in God’s plan, and the church cannot fail to proclaim and promote its fundamental importance,” Benedict said on his arrival. Even before arriving, the pope said on his plane [...]
Tennessee FBI investigators probing a cross burning in front of the home of a gay couple said Friday that even if the people responsible are caught they cannot be prosecuted under federal law. The flaming cross was discovered by Brandon Waters on his front lawn earlier this week. Waters said that the cross was about [...]
New York’s highest court ruled Thursday that gay marriage is not allowed under state law, rejecting arguments by same-sex couples who said the law violates their constitutional rights. Hours later, the Georgia state Supreme Court reinstated that state’s constitutional ban on gay marriage. It reversed a lower court judge’s ruling, deciding unanimously that the ban [...]
A Florida church launched a campaign this week to identify supporters of a proposed state constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage by publishing the names and addresses of 400,000 Florida residents in 60 counties. The Internet campaign by Christ Church of Peace, a nondenominational church in Jacksonville, has been denounced by groups that support a [...]
New York’s Court of Appeals, the highest in the state, is expected to rule this week on whether same-sex couples can marry. Decisions in several other cases were handed down today, but the marriage ruling could come on Thursday, lawyers say. The court heard arguments in May in four different lawsuits brought by 44 gay [...]