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A Massachusetts legislature vote on a proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage has been postponed until January. Although opponents of same-sex marriage had obtained 170,000 signatures in favor of putting the...

South African lawmakers are expected to pass a civil unions bill next week after a parliamentary committee Thursday approved language without specific reference to heterosexual or same-sex couples that recognizes the "voluntary union of two persons, which is solemnized...

President Bush Thursday reiterated his belief that "marriage is a union between a man and a woman" a day after the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples in the state must be afforded the same...

Lewis v. Harris, Supreme Court of New Jersey, October 25, 2006 [ruling that same-sex couples in the state must be afforded the same rights as heterosexual couples, and saying that the state legislature must decide whether New Jersey will recognize...

The New Jersey Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that same-sex couples in the state must be afforded the same rights as heterosexual couples, and said that the state legislature must decide whether New Jersey will...

The Hong Kong Court of Appeal Wednesday upheld a 2005 ruling that laws prohibiting gay sex are unconstitutional and discriminatory and violate Hong Kong's Basic Law and the Bill of...

The UK High Court on Monday denied a bid by a British lesbian couple married in Canada to have their marriage recognized by British law, saying that the traditional British definition of marriage refers only...

AP is reporting that a federal appeals court has overturned a lower court ruling that struck down Nebraska's ban on same-sex marriage . A federal judge struck down the ban last May, ruling that it...

A Connecticut Superior Court judge ruled Wednesday that civil unions do not harm same-sex couples, saying that they "share the same benefits, protections and responsibilities" as married couples. Judge Patty Jenkins Pittman further wrote that...

A British lesbian couple married in British Columbia, Canada, in 2003 argued in the High Court in London Tuesday that their same-sex marriage should be recognized in British law, challenging the Civil Partnership Act 2004 which...