SAN FRANCISCO—A federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down California's voter-mandated ban on gay marriages, but stopped short of finding that other states or the federal government were required to recognize same-sex marriage.
Advocates heading into an 11th-hour push to legalize gay marriage in New Jersey are facing a vastly altered fund-raising landscape since their original unsuccessful effort in 2009.
Washington State's House of Representatives voted Wednesday to legalize gay marriage, a measure that cleared the state Senate last week. Governor Christine Gregoire has promised to sign the measure into law, and it would take effect 90 days ...
Same-sex marriage will resume in California over the will of the state's voters if a new federal court ruling stands up on appeal. In Perry v. Brown, a three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld a trial ...
After 14 years of marriage, what chef Michael Schwartz wants to give his wife, Tamara, on Valentine's Day is the gift of time. "It's more about finding a little time, creating a little romance" than giving a material gift, he says.
Both Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney denounced today's ruling by the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco striking down California's Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage.
In an item yesterday on the link between decline of marriage and the decline in male wages, we observed: "The supply of labor has increased enormously over the past 40 to 50 years as more women have entered the workforce. That wages would ...
The two legal superstars leading the fight against Proposition 8, California's voter-mandated ban on gay marriage, were chilling in New Orleans this weekend.
Join in the next Ideas Market series for a discussion on the subject "Is Marriage in Crisis?" Panelists include: Ralph Richard Banks, author of Is Marriage for White People? and the Review essay "An Interracial Fix for Black Marriage". He is ...
Lloyd Blankfein and Mario Batali have found a cause to agree on: gay marriage. The Goldman CEO joins a list of well-known New Yorkers in recording a video spot for the Human Rights Campaign, which is advocating equal marriage rights for all.
Gay marriage already has become an issue in the presidential race. The major Republican candidates, except Ron Paul, have signed a pledge saying they are committed to an amendment to the U.S. Constitution banning same-sex marriage.
Judge Stephen Reinhardt wrote in a 128-page majority opinion that Proposition 8 used California's initiative power to target a minority group and take away the right to marry in violation the Fourteenth Amendment and the equal protection ...
State lawmakers -- have you heard that slashing judicial budgets could end up costing your state more money in the long run than it saves? If not, don't blame the legal community, which has been beating the drum on this for months at ...
"Do I make you nervous?" asks renegade CIA agent Tobin Frost, eyeballing the equally treacherous British operative sitting beside him in Cape Town, South Africa, traffic. "Always," replies the Brit, as a sniper's bullet ventilates his ...
Opponents and backers of gay marriage in California are caught in a waiting game. As the battle over California's Proposition 8 gay-marriage ban continues to make its way through the courts, the state may not have a final verdict until 2013. ...