Thursday, March 15, 2012

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Britain starts talks on legalizing gay marriage
Washington Post
CANTERBURY, England — The British government on Thursday (March 15) launched a 12-week consultation that is widely expected to lead to the legalization of same-sex marriage in England and Wales, despite strong opposition from Catholics and some ...
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Morocco: Rape-Marriage Law Will Be Amended
Huffington Post
RABAT, March 15 (Reuters) - Morocco on Thursday said it would amend a law allowing rapists to marry their underage female victims after the suicide of a teenage girl raised doubts about the effectiveness of reforms to women's rights in the country.
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Same-sex marriage, the state dinner and the president's table
Washington Post (blog)
And when it comes to gay men and lesbians and the issue of marriage equality, a consistent message is coming into clearer focus. For a man who maintains that he is "evolving" on the issue of same-sex marriage, President Obama is pretty evolved on the ...
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New Guide Helps Members Of Congress Change Public Position On Gay Marriage
Huffington Post
WASHINGTON -- Things just got a little easier for members of Congress who may want to publicly endorse same-sex marriage but don't know how to explain their past positions against it. Third Way, an influential centrist Democratic group, ...
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Morocco feminist says change must come after teen girl's suicide
Los Angeles Times
The name "Amina" has become a rallying cry for Moroccan feminists after the suicide of a 16-year-old girl who was reportedly forced to marry her rapist. Activists say the tragic death of Amina Filali should be a wake-up call to end a law that allows ...
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Morocco faces calls to change law after suicide of teen forced to marry rapist
msnbc.com (blog)
Fouzia Assouli, president of Morocco's Democratic League for Women's Rights, and 300 other protesters stage a sit-in Thursday outside the local court in Larache that had approved the marriage of Amina al-Filali, 16, who drank rat poison last week after ...
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msnbc.com (blog)
Gay marriage debate
The Guardian
Your report (15 March) notes that "[the] consultation paper [on gay marriage] will, however, also ask if the status quo should be maintained". Why has this question been introduced if the government has, rightly in my opinion, agreed to "press ahead"?
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Gay marriage consultation greeted with suspicion on both sides
The Guardian
David Cameron placed great emphasis on two words when he told last year's Tory party conference that the government would hold a consultation on legalising gay marriage. "Yes, it's about equality," he said, "but it's also about something else: ...
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The Guardian
A Rape Victim's Suicide Proves Morocco's Culture of Silence Must Go
Daily Beast
"Moroccan Girl Kills Herself After Judge Forces Her To Marry Her Rapist." This horrific headline, or some version of it, spread from Twitter to traditional news outlets around the world earlier this week. Using the hashtag #RIPAmina, people voiced ...
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Daily Beast

Blogs5 new results for marriage
 
Marriage ref.: Catholic prelates weigh in | Strange Bedfellows ...
By Joel Connelly
"The mission of Protect Marriage Washington is to qualify a referendum to the November 2012 ballot giving voters the right to approve or reject SB6239 which seeks to redefine marriage," says the WSCC, which speaks for the state's four ...
Strange Bedfellows -- Politics News
U.K. government launches consultation on same-sex marriage
By By Trevor Grundy
[Ecumenical News International] The U.K. government on March 15 launched a 12-week consultation in England and Wales that is widely expected to lead to the legalization of same-sex marriage, despite strong opposition from the Roman ...
Episcopal News Service
Meta-Analysis: Marriage And Childbirth Make You Miserable ...
By Garth Sundem
After marriage your well-being dips and after divorce it rises; after childbirth, relationship satisfaction stays permanently below its pre-birth level -– so says a meta-analysis of 2159 studies, published this week in the Journal of Personality and.
Science 2.0
GayPatriot » Is it hateful to oppose inclusion of "marriage equality ...
By B. Daniel Blatt
In the past month, almost half of all Democratic senators, several of Obama's national campaign co-chairs, the House Minority Leader and the chairman of the Democratic convention, among others, have said they support adding marriage ...
GayPatriot
DNC reportedly resisting adding marriage equality - AMERICAblog ...
By John Aravosis
News and opinion about US politics from a liberal/Democratic/progressive perspective.
US Politics | AMERICAblog News

Web1 new result for marriage
 
A Refined Formula to Predict Doom in Celebrity Marriages ...
How the Sundem-Tierney celebrity-marriage prediction equation measured up in its five years, and how it is being tweaked for added accuracy.
www.nytimes.com/.../a-refined-formula-to-predict-doom-in-ce...


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