Bermuda has become the first country ever to repeal same-sex marriage. The British island territoryâs Supreme Court ruled it legal in May of 2017, but legislation repealing that decision was approved in December. This week, Governor John Rankin signed the legislation into law, rolling back the civil rights of itsâŚ
As you may be aware, Australia has, for the last two months, been debating and conducting a national postal survey to determine whether its citizens would like to legalize same-sex marriage. As it turns out, Australians are âoverwhelminglyâ in favor of the measure.
Edith Windsor, an activist whose landmark Supreme Court case is largely responsible for dismantling 1996's Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and making gay marriage legal in America, died on Tuesday at the age of 88.
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A federal judge has ruled against a Mississippi law that would have allowed court clerks to cite their religious beliefs to refuse to issue marriage licenses or perform marriage ceremonies to same-sex couples. The âProtecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Actâ was widely cited as one of theâŚ
Unable to deny a lesbian couple a marriage license, a West Virginia deputy county clerk settled for telling the women that their relationship was wrong and would be judged by God. The women also say the clerk called them âan abomination.â The clerk denies that part, but merrily told a local reporter that yes, God toldâŚ
On Monday, February 8, in Manchester, New Hampshire, Timothy Kierstead, who identifies as gay, confronted GOP presidential candidate Marco Rubio with one, pointed question: âWhy do you want to put me back in the closet?â
Slovenia has voted to overturn a law that would have given same-sex couples the ability to marry and adopt children. Thatâs after none other than Our Problematic Fave Pope Francis weighed in, telling Slovenian pilgrims days before the vote that the country had to âto support the family, a structural reference pointâŚ
Hot on the heels of this morningâs announcement that same-sex marriage is now legal in Ireland, the first gay couple to be lawfully wed has come forward to make their long-term relationship legal. Cormac Gollogly and Richard Dowling have been together for 12 years and couldnât be happier that their partnership isâŚ
Same-sex marriage is legal in the Republic of Ireland as of November 16, 2015.
On Thursday, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints added new guidelines to its church policy outlining the treatment of same-sex couples and their children. According to the Washington Post, the Mormon Church will no longer baptize children living in same-sex households and will now consider those inâŚ
With age, 91-year-old President George H.W. Bushâs attitude toward same-sex marriage has softened, according to a new biography by Jon Meacham.
The investigative site MuckRock, which focuses on filing Freedom of Information Act requests, has gotten Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, with some difficulty, to release 482 of her recent emails. Among other things, they show that the majority of the county clerks in Kentucky want to issue marriage licenses to whoeverâŚ
Kim Davis, a famously ineffective Kentucky county clerk, has been strutting all over the fucking media, being like âI am a true Christian because I took a meeting with the Pope.â It turns out that meeting was really more like a late-night text conversation, in which Davis wrote, âHey babe, wanna cum over?â and theâŚ
A self-described pastor who tried to drown out President Obamaâs second inauguration with shouting has pleaded guilty to trying to drown out the Supreme Courtâs same-sex marriage ruling with shouting. He faces up to one year in prison. That will probably not deter him from future shouting.
Kim Davis, a newly registered member of the Republican party and lazy clerk, was given the Family Research Councilâs Cost of Discipleship Award on Friday evening. I drank four wines and then I went to watch it happen.
Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis returned to work Monday morning after six days in county jail for contempt of court and a long weekend just because. She told a gaggle of reporters that she will still refuse to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples, but âwonât interefereâ if her deputy clerks do grant them.
Kim Davis was released from jail Tuesday morning, with instructions not to interfere with her office handing out marriage licenses to legally eligible couples. Unwilling to let his opportunity for publicity-friendly faux martyrdom slip away that easily, Mike Huckabee offered this afternoon to go to jail âin her place.â
As of September 8, Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis has been released from Carter County Detention Center on the strict condition that she not âinterfere in any way, directly or indirectly, with the efforts of her deputy clerks to issue marriage licenses to all legally eligible couples. However, so long as Davis remainsâŚ
