Same-sex Marriage

Jay Cost writes that putting the Democrats’ national political convention in Charlotte “frustrates multiple clients of the Democratic party. The gay marriage ballot initiative in North Carolina is only one such example, which obviously aggravates... Full Article at The Washington Post

Just 45 percent of poll participants said they back Obama. Seventeen percent said they were undecided. The poll, taken a day after Obama announced his support of same-sex marriage, reaffirms Obama never polled well in rural Arkansas, TalkBusiness.com... Full Article at United Press International

Ms. Quinn met Ms. Catullo, a products liability lawyer, in 2001, when they were set up by mutual friends. Last year, as Governor Cuomo was leading a push to legalize same-sex marriage, Ms. Quinn traveled to Albany to personally lobby lawmakers,... Full Article at The New York Times

But the group’s endorsement could potentially bolster support for President Obama with a key constituency: black Democratic voters who remain skeptical of same-sex marriage. Black and white Americans are divided on same-sex marriage in similar numbers,... Full Article at The New York Times

The facts and clear momentum toward marriage speak for themselves.” Surveys show blacks remain generally uncomfortable with same-sex marriage. A Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation poll in November found that 58 percent of African Americans called... Full Article at The Washington Post

A lawyer for Ms Port praised Friday's ruling, saying that now same-sex marriages would be recognized in Maryland regardless of what happens to the gay marriage law in November. Six US states and the District of Columbia have legalized same-sex marriage. Full Article at The New Media Journal

It is Rossiya 24, not Russiya 24. NATIONAL An article on Tuesday about Americans’ sentiments regarding President Obama’s decision to endorse same-sex marriage misstated the degree of support among racial groups when four New York Times/CBS News polls... Full Article at The New York Times

Republicans shamefully pandered to election-year politics dictated by the Family Foundation, an anti-gay pressure group. They contended that Mr. Thorne-Begland, who is in a family relationship with his male partner and two children, could not properly... Full Article at The New York Times

Before the May 8 vote, those on both sides of the issue argued over the impact amending the constitution would have on existing regulations and relationships in North Carolina, where same-sex marriage was already banned by law. Amendment supporters... Full Article at The Washington Post

Social Security-cutting “centrists” who think you need a new party to get what you want: Here’s what you want to think about — same-sex marriage. Let me back up a bit. The Americans Elect third-party presidential campaign collapsed yesterday. And I’ll... Full Article at The Washington Post

The intense theological climate that the same-sex marriage debate has stirred begs the question: What’s at stake for the black church on this issue? Jamal Harrison-Bryant, pastor of the Empowerment Temple AME Church in Baltimore, Md. , has been one of... Full Article at The Washington Post

The decision came in the case of Jessica Port and Virginia Anne Cowan, women in their 20s, who were married in California in 2008. They filed for divorce in Maryland's Prince George's County two years later. A circuit judge refused to grant the... Full Article at United Press International

But in all fairness, making it a federal issue at this point with our current Congress is pointless. It would never even come up for a vote, much less pass. At least on the state level, some states have done the right thing and passed legislation... Full Article at The Washington Post

Zavos said. The court agreed, finding that the parties’ same-sex marriage is not “repugnant” to Maryland “public policy,” the bar it would have to reach in order for the couple to be legally turned away for a divorce. Earlier this year, Gov. Martin... Full Article at The Washington Post

"That decision can only be overturned by the Legislature, and given the Legislature passed marriage, I think that we can expect that this decision will remain the law of Maryland." Unlike other states, Maryland has no ban on recognizing same-sex... Full Article at USA Today

This was an odd week. On Monday we were still talking about President Obama’s historic announcement of support for same-sex marriage. By Thursday, we were aghast at a plan to clobber Obama with the incendiary sermons of his former pastor. There was also... Full Article at The Washington Post

Indeed, in the interview, Mr. Obama spoke repeatedly and admiringly of the activity of others in how the gay rights question is being “worked out” at the state and local level. His interviewer, Robin Roberts of ABC News, noted that this working-out has... Full Article at The New York Times

Church leaders condemned Obama, while 68 percent of Catholics — five points higher than the country as a whole — support legal gay and lesbian relationships, and 51 percent support same-sex marriage. In February, the Obama administration thought it had... Full Article at The New York Times

Argument B is more uncompromising: You have the right to marry anyone, regardless of gender. The right to “marriage equality” is today’s civil rights, voting rights and women’s rights — and just as inviolable. Argument B has extremely powerful... Full Article at The Washington Post