Alabama’s stand against gay marriage crumbles
Alabama’s stand against gay marriage crumbled Friday as judges in most counties sided with federal courts rather than their own chief justice.
Some Alabama counties refuse gay marriages, prompting suit
Same-sex marriage spread farther across Alabama on Tuesday as more courthouses issued licenses to gays and lesbians, yet some counties still defied a federal judge’s order, so couples took their fight back to court.
Slimantics: All quiet on the Western (Ala.) front
Monday was an historic day in many parts of Alabama, but a day of disappointment in others.
Justice Thomas objects to court’s signal on gay marriage
The Supreme Court is inappropriately signaling it intends to clear the way for gay marriage across the nation, Justice Clarence Thomas complained Monday.
Alabama seeks to stay order overturning gay marriage ban
The Alabama attorney general is asking a federal judge to stay a ruling that overturned Alabama’s ban on gay marriage, as advocates cheer what once seemed an improbable victory in the deeply conservative state.
GOP presses state bills limiting gay rights before ruling
A Texas lawmaker would strip the salaries from government officials who honor same-sex marriage licenses.
Gay marriage: High court sets stage for historic ruling
Setting the stage for a potentially historic ruling, the Supreme Court announced Friday it will decide whether same-sex couples have a right to marry everywhere in America under the Constitution.
TV campaign for gay equality starting in Miss.
Mary Jane Kennedy considers herself a conservative Christian Republican, and she’s led Bible studies in her native Mississippi for decades.
Joy, dismay as two sides assess gay-marriage ruling
One side was euphoric, the other dismayed.
Charlie Mitchell: Fewer Mississippians see gay marriage as a threat
It will happen in Mississippi.
Same-sex marriages begin in the South
Gay and lesbian couples are getting legally married in the South for the first time, crossing a threshold into a conservative region that long stood united against same-sex marriage.
Rights of same-sex military spouses vary by state
On the wall over her bunk in Kuwait, Marine Cpl. Nivia Huskey proudly displays a collection of sonogram printouts of the baby boy her pregnant spouse is carrying back home in North Carolina.
Poll: Support for gay marriage may be leveling off
A survey released Monday from the Pew Research Center indicates American support for same-sex marriage could be leveling off after several years of dramatic growth in acceptance of equal rights for gays and lesbians.
States urge Supreme Court to take up gay marriage
A stinging rejection of same-sex marriage bans in Wisconsin and Indiana, issued by a unanimous and unequivocal U.S. appeals court, has brought hope to those fighting the laws that the Supreme Court will feel pressure to rule soon in their favor.
Gay marriage arguments flooding federal courts
Federal appeals courts soon will hear arguments in gay marriage fights from nine states, part of a slew of cases putting pressure on the U.S. Supreme Court to issue a final verdict.
Ruling pushes gay marriage closer to Supreme Court
The first ruling by a federal appeals court that states cannot prevent gay couples from marrying makes it more likely the Supreme Court will ultimately have to make a decision it has so far avoided — do states have the ability to prohibit same-sex marriage?
History shades Arkansas’ gay marriage debate
Fifty-seven years after federal troops escorted nine black students into Little Rock’s Central High School as a white mob jeered, Arkansas again finds itself in the center of a debate over civil rights. This time, the issue is gay marriage, but the 1957 desegregation crisis still casts a shadow.
Arkansas plans to appeal same-sex marriage ruling
Lawyers for the state followed through with their promise to appeal a judge’s decision overturning the constitutional amendment overwhelmingly passed by voters in 2004 banning gay marriage.
Republican group says gay marriage consistent with values of freedom
A group of Republicans has come out in support of legalizing gay marriage in Utah and Oklahoma, arguing that allowing same-sex unions is consistent with the Western conservative values of freedom and liberty once championed by Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater.
Gay marriage fight pits Texas attorney general vs. gay friend
When Greg Abbott was paralyzed by a fallen tree in 1984, Mark Phariss flew 500 miles to his friend’s bedside. They were law school pals who swapped stories over dinner, job leads and airport rides, and they still exchange Christmas cards today.