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The conservative legal star who is fighting for gay marriage
Los Angeles Times
All since Olson — the conservative legal hero, crusader against Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton, defender of George W. Bush — signed on to fight for same-sex marriage in California, a battle that he will take to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday when ...
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Saying 'I do' to gay marriage
Boston Herald
Guess who's pushing for the United States Supreme Court to end bans on same-sex marriage: the Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans, a gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender support group — at West Point — and a slew of former defense secretaries and ...
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What's Standing in the Way of Gay Marriage?
New Yorker (blog)
All of the issues have been fully briefed and next week the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the two same-sex marriage cases now at the center of a national debate. A case arguing that California's Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage ...
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New Yorker (blog)
Standing for Marriage Equality: Holy Work in Holy Week
Huffington Post (blog)
At my church, All Saints Church in Pasadena, we are proud to have been in the forefront of the struggle for marriage equality in the State of California just as we have been in the forefront of LGBT equality in the Episcopal Church. From the first ...
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Same-sex marriage's big day in court: What's at stake?
NBCNews.com (blog)
One is a challenge to the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (more commonly known as DOMA), which bars federal recognition of same-sex marriages. The other is a challenge of California's Proposition 8, a ban on same-sex marriage that was approved by voters ...
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How Vermont's 'Civil' War Fueled The Gay Marriage Movement
NPR
Editor's note: This piece contains language that some readers may find offensive. It wasn't so long ago that a handful of Vermont legislators in a shabby Statehouse committee room struggled over what to call their proposal to give marriage-like rights ...
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NPR
Dozens rally for marriage equality in Allentown
Allentown Morning Call
The vigil is one of 150 being held over the next five days across the country as the Supreme Court prepares to hear two cases that will affect gay marriage. On Tuesday, the court will consider California's Proposition 8 to decide whether the voters ...
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Allentown Morning Call
Conservatives divided on gay marriage
Boston Herald
And I'd probably still prefer civil unions if we had settled on some arrangement that conferred the economic and legal benefits of traditional marriage without calling it marriage. Still, gays have an entirely understandable reluctance to settle for ...
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Dome: Groups plan same-sex marriage vigil
News & Observer
Same-sex marriage supporters will hold vigils across North Carolina and the rest of the country on Tuesday, including a Triangle event in Raleigh. The vigils coincide with the U.S. Supreme Court hearing arguments Tuesday and Wednesday on the ...
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Wide range of potential outcomes on gay marriage
Huffington Post
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court can choose from a wide array of outcomes in ruling on California's Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage and the federal Defense of Marriage Act. The federal law, known by the shorthand DOMA, defines marriage as ...
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Blogs5 new results for marriage
 
Daily Kos: Young conservatives against marriage equality have a sad
By rss@dailykos.com (Hunter)
"Proponents of same-sex marriage have done a fantastic job of telling the story of same-sex marriage through music and television and film," said Eric Teetsel, 29, the executive director of the Manhattan Declaration, which describes itself as a ...
Daily Kos
Groups opposed to same sex marriage deny that homophobia ...
By Agence France-Presse
For opponents of same-sex marriage in the United States, it's the welfare of children that is at stake when the US Supreme Court hears oral arguments on the hot button issue next week. "Children do best with a mother and father, and marriage ...
The Raw Story
Argument preview: Marriage and the Court's "friends" — Part I ...
By Lyle Denniston
This is the first of two articles examining the arguments made in the Supreme Court's two same-sex marriage cases by the "friends of the Court" — the amici who have filed written briefs, a lengthy list. This article deals with the amici arguments ...
SCOTUSblog
Frank Bruni: Gay Marriage 'the Harlem Shake of Political ...
By Andy Towle
Bruni What a difference four years make. In 2008, both Clinton and Barack Obama publicly opposed same-sex marriage. Just a year ago, that was still Obama's formal stance. But by the summer of 2012, marriage equality had made its way ...
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Key players in same-sex marriage Supreme Court arguments
By Howard Mintz, San Jose Mercury News
Attorney Theodore Olson, right, speaks next to attorney David Boies at a news conference in San Francisco, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010. A federal judge overturned California's same-sex marriage ban Wednesday in a landmark case that could ...
National Politics

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Opinion: Gay marriage, then group marriage? - CNN.com
Robert George, Sherif Girgis and Ryan Anderson: The civil rights rhetoric of " marriage equality" masks a profound error.
www.cnn.com/2013/03/20/opinion/george-gay-marriage


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