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Gay-marriage advocates probably won’t get everything they want from the U.S. Supreme Court. They still might get a lot.
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John Lewis sees two issues -- civil rights and gay marriage -- through one lens.
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Gay-marriage advocates, aiming to show broad support as the U.S. Supreme Court takes up the issue for the first time, have enlisted Apple Inc., Morgan Stanley and dozens of Republicans who once held top government positions.
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Governor Christine Gregoire signed a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in Washington, making it the seventh in the patchwork of states granting the right to gay and lesbian couples.
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Maria Woodbury has called hundreds of voters in Maine since March to talk about making same-sex marriage legal. Some hang up, others say they’re too busy. One man, who said he grew up as a Catholic, stuck out.
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At a Seattle synagogue, volunteers are running a phone bank urging voters to uphold Washington’s same-sex marriage law. In Maryland, Catholics are poised to preach from the pulpit opposing a similar initiative.
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Gay-marriage approval by voters in Washington, Maryland and Maine last month led Democratic New Jersey Assemblyman Reed Gusciora to plot a new strategy around the veto power of Republican Governor Chris Christie.
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Argentina became the first Latin American country to legalize same-sex marriages after an early morning Senate vote overcame lobbying by the Roman Catholic Church.
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Supporters and opponents of gay marriage cited similar values as they argued the merits of a proposal to repeal the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act at a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee meeting today.
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The patchwork quilt of U.S. state laws on same-sex marriage, which Washington is now poised to legalize, leaves gay and lesbian Americans with different rights depending on geography. To opponents, that’s just the way things work in a union of self-governing states.
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