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May 20, 2011 • The Salt Lake Tribune
Last Saturday's New York Times reported that "as gay rights advocates intensify their campaign to legalize same-sex marriage in New York, the bulk of their money is coming from … conservative financiers and wealthy donors to the Republican Party... Full Story
June 17, 2011 • By Michael Gormley The Associated Press
ALBANY, N.Y. • Gov. Andrew Cuomo held more one-on-one negotiations Friday with Senate Republicans who worry his bill to legalize gay marriage doesn't do enough to protect religious groups and churches that refuse to preside over same-sex wedding... Full Story
June 16, 2011 • The Associated Press
Albany, N.Y. • Gay couples watched anxiously as a closely divided New York Senate started, then stalled, down the path toward a vote on whether to legalize gay marriage, a pivotal decision with national consequences that looked more and more likely t... Full Story
June 20, 2011 • By Michael Gormley The Associated Press
ALBANY, N.Y. • Hundreds of raucous demonstrators on both sides of the divisive gay-marriage debate jammed the usually sedate halls of New York's Capitol on Monday as Senate Republicans, who can determine the measure's fate, consider whether... Full Story
August 1, 2011 • LGBT FYI by Rosemarie Winters
A fourth, "credible" poll has shown that more Americans now back gay marriage than don't, reports New York Times blogger and statistician Nate Silver.
The most recent poll from CNN found that 51 percent of U.S. adults think same-sex marriage sho... Full Story
June 28, 2011 • By Rachel Zoll The Associated Press
NEW YORK • New York's same-sex marriage debate was the toughest test yet for U.S. Roman Catholic bishops and their position that only heterosexuals should wed.
The outcome for the hierarchs was dismal. New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan was criti... Full Story
June 29, 2011 • By Erica Werner The Associated Press
Washington • President Barack Obama said Wednesday that there is a "profound recognition" in the country that gays must be treated like every other American. Yet days after New York state legalized same-sex marriage, the president refused to endorse ... Full Story
June 30, 2011 • The Salt Lake Tribune
The news from New York was shocking — a state legislature with a Republican-run Senate, not a liberal court, gave gays permission to marry! Thank heavens Utah's leaders had the foresight to put prohibition against gay marriage in the Utah Const... Full Story
July 15, 2011 • By Brian Witte The Associated Press
ANNAPOLIS, Md. • Gov. Martin O'Malley said Friday he will push harder for a same-sex marriage measure in Maryland next year if it mirrors legislation that passed in New York after changes were made to protect religious freedom.
"I think we can l... Full Story
July 24, 2011 • By Xxxxxx The Salt Lake Tribune
Yolanda Potasinski and Nancy Mertzel have called one another "partner" since 1997. After their wedding yesterday in New York, which married gay couples for the first time, now they can make it "wife."
Clerks' offices statewide and ... Full Story
July 24, 2011 • By Carolyn Thompson The Associated Press
Niagara Falls, N.Y. • Gay-rights activists Kitty Lambert and Cheryle Rudd were legally married the very first moment they could be during a midnight ceremony at Niagara Falls that ushered in same-sex marriage in the state and marked a pivotal moment ... Full Story
August 3, 2011 • By Manuel Valdes The Associated Press
SEATTLE • Standing up before dozens of Suquamish Tribal members at a general council meeting in March, Heather Purser told them she was a lesbian, and asked her people to recognize same-sex marriages at the tribe's Washington state reservation.
... Full Story
September 28, 2010 • The Salt Lake Tribune
Re "Same-sex marriage: Law should be consistent in all states" (Our View, Sept. 26):
There are two main objections to same-sex marriage. One is the conservative objection: The concept of marriage applies only to man and woman, but that doesn't m... Full Story
March 4, 2011 • By Laurie Kellman Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON • House Speaker John Boehner says he's launching a legal defense of the federal law against gay marriage.
The Ohio Republican announced Friday that he was convening a bipartisan legal advisory group to defend the Defense of Marriage A... Full Story
December 12, 2011 • By Kasie Hunt The Associated Press
Manchester, N.H. • When Mitt Romney sat down next to a patron wearing a Vietnam veteran's cap, Romney wanted to ask him about his military service.
But 63-year-old Bob Garon wanted to talk about gays in the military — because he is a gay vetera... Full Story
December 22, 2011 • The Salt Lake Tribune
Re "Mitt Romney grilled on gay marriage by gay veteran" (Tribune, Dec. 13):
Shame on Mitt Romney! He basically told a Vietnam War veteran that he didn't have the right to pursuit of happiness — to marry a person of his choosing.
Consider some... Full Story
January 20, 2012 • By Peg Mcentee Tribune Columnist
The LDS Church has joined in a multifaith statement saying that recognition of gay marriage threatens the one-man, one-woman unions and, evidently, the very foundation of religious freedom in the United States.
Worse, "Marriage and Religious Freedom... Full Story
February 7, 2012 • By Lisa Leff The Associated Press
San Francisco • Same-sex marriage moved one step closer to the Supreme Court on Tuesday when a federal appeals court ruled California's ban unconstitutional, saying it serves no purpose other than to "lessen the status and human dignity" of gays... Full Story
February 8, 2012 • By Peg Mcentee Tribune Columnist
California's Proposition 8 served only to "impose on gays and lesbians, through the public law, a majority's private disapproval of them and their relationships" by taking away their right to marriage, a federal appeals court has ruled.
W... Full Story
February 9, 2012 • By Rachel La Corte The Associated Press
OLYMPIA, Wash. - The last time same-sex marriage was debated in the state Capitol, the Legislature's sole gay lawmaker watched as his colleagues passed the state's version of the Defense of Marriage Act in 1998 banning gay marriage. Fourtee... Full Story
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