Tag: same-sex marriage
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Apple and Facebook Lobby Supreme Court for Gay Marriage
Apple, Facebook and other tech companies are joining gay-rights activists lobbying the U.S. Supreme Court to make gay marriage legal across the country.
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President Obama formally asks Supreme Court to allow gay marriage
The Barack Obama administration took another step toward institutionalizing gay marriage, formally asking the US Supreme Court to strike down a 1996 law defining marriage exclusively as a union between a man and a woman.
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Huntsman: Republicans Should Embrace Marriage Equality
Today, former Utah governor and ambassador to China Jon Huntsman published an op-ed in the American Conservative urging his fellow Republicans to get on board with the majority of Americans who support marriage equality.
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CNBC Host Suze Orman moderated a panel to discuss “The Cost of Marriage Inequality”
With many states considering freedom to marry legislation and two landmark cases about the freedom to marry before the U.S. Supreme Court, New York Times bestselling author and CNBC Host Suze Orman moderated a panel discussion Thursday at New York University on the economic harms caused by the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and the denial of marriage for same-sex couples.
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Mexican Supreme Court rules gay marriage is constitutionally protected
The Supreme Court of Mexico made public this week its decision that gay marriage is a constitutionally protected right.
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USA : First Marriage Equality Poll of 2013 Shows Growing support
The Respect for Marriage Coalition yesterday released a memo from Anzalone Liszt Grove Research summarizing key findings from the first public opinion poll of 2013 on marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples.