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Proposition 2 marriage amendment to the Texas Constitution, adopted by the Texas Legislature by Senate approval on May 21, 2005, and approved by Texas voters November 8, 2005. Read the full text of Proposition 2 here. Reported in JURIST's Paper...

Spain's conservative Popular Party Friday filed a constitutional challenge against a law passed earlier this year which legalizes gay marriage and allows homosexual couples to adopt children. The party filed the case in...

Complete text of the draft Iraqi constitution, as translated from the Arabic by the Associated Press :PREAMBLECHAPTER ONE: BASIC PRINCIPLESCHAPTER TWO: RIGHTS AND FREEDOMSPART ONE: RIGHTSPART TWO: FREEDOMSCHAPTER THREE: THE FEDERAL AUTHORITIESPART ONE: THE LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITYPART TWO:...

California Attorney General Bill Lockyer released a title and summary for the proposed California Marriage Amendment Monday, opening the door for supporters of the document to begin gathering the hundreds of thousands of signatures needed to...

Proyecto de ley por la que se modifica el código civil en material de derecho a contraer matrimonio, passed by the Spanish Congress of Deputies on June 30, 2005 [law legalizing same-sex marriage and allowing same—sex couples to adopt and...

Despite being voted down in the Senate , the Spanish parliament on Thursday passed a law legalizing same-sex marriage and allowing same-sex couples to adopt and inherit each other's property. Read the text of the...

Leading Wednesday's international brief, the South African National Assembly has approved the highly controversial national Children's Bill , nine years after its first introduction. The bill, which will be presented to the National Council of Provinces...

In some of his most pointed remarks since becoming pontiff in April, Pope Benedict XVI spoke out against same-sex marriage , artificial birth control and divorce Monday while speaking to a group at Rome's St....

Gay couples in Switzerland can register their partnerships after 58% of Swiss voters Sunday said "yes" in a referendum , bringing to fruition a victory predicted by a Friday opinion poll [JURIST...

Voters in Switzerland will decide in a referendum set for Sunday June 5 whether gay couples should have the right to register as partners and have legal rights similar to as married couples. A recent poll says 67 percent...