May 14th, 2013 
Wilton Drive 
Looney tune congresswoman Michele Bachmann threatened to leave Minnesota today if the state goes ahead with its plans to legalize gay marriage. Her husband on the other hand was quite excited and said just the opposite as he has other plans ( our guess is a speedy divorce is on his mind as well as [...]
May 8th, 2013 Wilton Drive 
The Delaware state senate passed its marriage equality bill Tuesday afternoon with a 12-9 vote. The legislation, which already passed in the house, will head to Gov. Jack Markell, who has said he would sign the bill into law if it reached his desk, allowing gay and lesbian couples to start marrying on July 1. [...]
April 17th, 2013 Wilton Drive 
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Hundreds of jubilant gay-rights advocates celebrated at New Zealand’s Parliament Wednesday night as the country become the 13th in the world and the first in the Asia-Pacific region to legalize same-sex marriage. Lawmakers voted 77 to 44 in favor of the gay-marriage bill on its third and final reading. People watching [...]
April 15th, 2013 Wilton Drive 
PARIS, April 15 – Well it looks like France is on track too become the next country legalizing same sex marriage. Hopefully the US Supreme Court justices will take note. French police arrested dozens of protesters against same-sex marriage on Monday as left-wing lawmakers brought forward the deadline for the adoption of a law that [...]
April 13th, 2013 Wilton Drive 
More than half of Americans support gay marriage, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Friday. Fifty-three percent of those polled said they favored allowing same-sex marriages, reflecting steadily rising support over the past decade. In late 2009, just 41 percent of Americans supported same-sex marriage; in 2004, just 30 percent did. Today, [...]
April 10th, 2013 Wilton Drive 
Gays and lesbians in France may soon be able to marry and become parents. The marriage equality bill currently before lawmakers would grant French same-sex couples the right to wed and jointly adopt children. Although the first article of the bill, which removes all gender references from marriage applications, was approved in the National Assembly [...]
April 8th, 2013 Wilton Drive 
Catholic Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron of Detroit said on Sunday that Catholics who support gay marriage yet take the sacrament of Communion are contradicting themselves, echoing recent calls from a religious scholar for supporters of gay marriage to withdraw from taking the Eucharist. According to the Detroit Free Press, Archbishop Vigneron said that Catholics who [...]
April 2nd, 2013 Wilton Drive 
If the Supreme Court decides to leave marriage equality up to the states to decide, will gay couples be concentrated in a few select states while the rest of the U.S. languishes behind in civil rights? Suze Orman, the financial planning guru, TV host, and HuffPost blogger who lives with her lesbian partner in Fort [...]
March 30th, 2013 Wilton Drive 
Across the country, Facebook users changed their profile pictures. The chart above shows the rhythm of profile pic changes day after day, with a clear spike on March 26. Facebook didn’t analyze exactly what they changed their pictures to, but we can safely assume that the red equal sign was driving the bump. On Tuesday [...]
March 27th, 2013 Wilton Drive 
A majority of Supreme Court justices on Wednesday morning appeared skeptical of the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which defines marriage for federal purposes as between a man and a woman. Whether the justices believe they have the power to make any decision in this case, however, remained murky. It was the [...]
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