The head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI, has sparked new controversy this week after claiming that gay marriage will doom humanity. The papal made the damning comments in a New Year address to a division of the Vatican on Monday. According to Reuters, he told diplomats from nearly 180 countries that “pride [...]
by Stephen Gray in Pinknews A surge in wedding licenses following the Marriage Equality Act means a quarter of new marriages in the state of New York are between same-sex couples. According to figures released by the New York Post, the number of of applications for licenses rose by a third on the same period [...]
by Brody Levesque in PINKnews Mexico City’s civil registry has announced that 1,000 same-sex marriages have been registered since marriage equality came into law last year. City lawmakers approved a bill in December 2009 and mayor Marcelo Ebrard then signed it into law, with gay couples waiting until March 4th 2010 to wed. The legislation [...]
Hundreds of gay couples have wed in New York after it became the sixth and most populous state in the US to recognize same-sex unions as legal. Newly-weds brandished their marriage certificates as ceremonies were held from Manhattan to Niagara Falls. Civil rights activists argue the US Congress should now repeal a federal law defining [...]
New Irish foreign minister Eamon Gilmore criticized New York St. Patrick’s Day organizers for excluding the gay community. Gilmore believes that by excluding LGBTs, the parade does not encapsulate “Irishness,” because Ireland is a very accepting place – the Irish pride themselves on equality. “This issue of exclusion is not Irish, let’s be clear about [...]
The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has told a private meeting of influential MPs that he is not prepared to allow Church of England buildings to host religious civil partnerships. The government intends to implement a House of Lords amendment to the Equality Act that would allow churches, synagogues, mosques and other religious buildings [...]
According to a statement released by the Instituto de Politica Familiar de Baleares (IPFB), nearly 3 percent of marriages in Spain’s Balearic Islands (Islas Baleares) are between gay and lesbian couples. The archipelago in the western Mediterranean Sea consists of four large islands – Majorca (Mallorca), Menorca (Menorca), Ibiza (Eivissa) and Formentera – and many [...]
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, the twice-elected prime minister of Spain, has lauded gay marriage as a great achievement. When asked in a television interview for examples of the best and worst of being prime minister, the 50-year-old Zapatero gave gay marriage as an example of one of the best things he’s done during his two [...]
Among the imagery included in a new MSBNC ad is a gay couple exchanging vows. The ad is part of the network’s new Lean Forward campaign. The 60-second spot begins with a YouTube clip of young people enjoying a day at the lake, a marching band, a child sledding in the snow, the space shuttle [...]
A bill to allow gay couples to marry was re-introduced on 6 January 2011. Democrat representative Arthur Handy told The Providence Journal he has secured the support of 27 so-sponsors and expects to sign up more. Gay marriage bills have failed in Rhode Island repeatedly in recent years, but the state has a new, supportive [...]
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