Lawyers for a county court clerk who refuses to issue marriage licenses in the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling that allows same-sex couples to wed filed an emergency motion Wednesday to block an order from the Kentucky governor.
Read More »Two disparate decisions lead to the same dead end
Two Christian colleges announced they will hereafter offer the same benefits to same-sex married employees that they offer to all other employees, even though it will cause a big stir in their Mennonite Church hierarchy.
Read More »Lawsuit: Christian judges told to perform gay weddings or face criminal prosecution
Earlier this month, Courthouse News reported that two former North Carolina magistrates filed a lawsuit in Wake County Superior Court alleging they were given a choice to either perform same-sex wedding ceremonies or face discipline, termination, and even criminal prosecution.
Read More »Colliding visions of marriage at the Supreme Court (ANALYSIS)
WASHINGTON (RNS) As the nine Supreme Court justices took up the vexing question of a constitutional right to same-sex marriage on Tuesday (April 28), the case came down to two competing visions of marriage: what it’s been, what it should be, and who gets to decide. Outside the court, hundreds …
Read More »Gay marriage fight centers on what’s best for the kids
It is perhaps the most controversial component of the national debate over same-sex marriage: Who should raise children?
Read More »Idaho city: Chapel owners exempt from discrimination law
Husband-and-wife Pentecostal ministers who own a wedding chapel in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, refused to marry same-sex couples after a recent court ruling, and the American Civil Liberties Union says that’s OK — as long as the chapel only operates as a religious establishment.
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