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Pushy liberals

Tue, 21 May 2013 01:01:04 MDT

Pushy liberals

Updated May 21, 2013 01:01AM MDT

Supporters of gay marriage would get much further if they were not so pushy. If someone prefers not to perform a same-sex wedding — or provide for its flowers, cakes, limos, venues, etc. — why not find someone else who wants the business, instead of threatening lawsuits against those who feel gay marriage is wrong? Advocates of gay marriage have many supporters, but no one needs to agree with everything someone else believes in. These days it is OK to bash Jesus and Christianity, but leave the ...

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French president signs gay marriage into law

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:26:32 MDT

French president signs gay marriage into law

The Associated Press

Updated May 18, 2013 11:26AM MDT

Paris • French President Francois Hollande has signed a law authorizing gay marriage and adoption by same-sex couples, after months of nationwide protests and wrenching debate. His signature means the first gay marriages may be celebrated in France within about 10 days. Hollande’s office said he signed the bill Saturday morning, a day after the Constitutional Council struck down a challenge to the law. Hollande, a Socialist, had made legalizing gay marriage one of his campaign pledges last year....

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Get it over with

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:01:08 MDT

Get it over with

Updated May 18, 2013 01:01AM MDT

With the recent cascade of states legalizing same-sex marriage, Edward Cannon thinks we’re approaching a “tipping point when the … country must allow all adult Americans to marry whom they love” (“Gay marriage approval,” Forum, May 15). Wishful thinking. That speeding train of states will soon hit a procedural wall — the constitutions of 31 states ban same-sex marriages. Of the other 19 states, 12 now allow gay marriage, and not all of the other seven are likely candidates (think West Virginia)....

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Just like women

Sat, 18 May 2013 01:01:05 MDT

Just like women

Updated May 18, 2013 01:01AM MDT

Re “Minn. OKs gay marriage; governor to sign” (Tribune, May 14): Minnesota just became the 12th state to stop marriage discrimination. Last week it was Delaware. The week before that, Rhode Island. Soon Illinois. The state dominoes are falling. In the not-too-distant future, students in civics classes will wonder what was the big deal about gay marriage. The same is true today about the time when women in America were so irrelevant that they could not own or inherit property, sign contracts, ser...

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Matter of conscience

Fri, 17 May 2013 01:01:03 MDT

Matter of conscience

Updated May 17, 2013 01:01AM MDT

According to a just-released ABC News/Washington Post poll, 55 percent of Americans favor legalizing gay marriage, a whopping 63 percent favor allowing gay boys into Scouting and 56 percent oppose banning gay men from being Scout leaders. Those numbers will only increase. Soon, three out of four American will favor integrating gays into society, including marriage and Scouts. Already, gays may share the same drinking fountains, bathrooms and public schools. Why then should we allow a shrinking m...

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Gay marriage approval

Wed, 15 May 2013 01:01:03 MDT

Gay marriage approval

Updated May 15, 2013 01:01AM MDT

With all of New England now allowing gays to marry, surely fearful conservatives worry that the cancer is spreading — not just down the East Coast to New York, Delaware and Maryland, but it’s popping up everywhere, in Iowa, Washington, even Minnesota. Soon in Oregon and California (regardless how the Supreme Court rules on California’s Proposition 8). Surely, we’re approaching some tipping point when the rest of the country must allow all adult Americans to marry whom they love. America’s been d...

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For Minnesota gay marriage sponsors, it’s personal

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:51:52 MDT

For Minnesota gay marriage sponsors, it’s personal

By PATRICK CONDON The Associated Press

Updated May 14, 2013 09:51PM MDT

St. Paul, Minn. • As a crowd of thousands roared from the lawn of the state Capitol, Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton signed the bill Tuesday that makes gay marriage legal here come Aug. 1. “What a day for Minnesota!” the Democratic governor declared, as American and rainbow flags flapped in a sweltering hot wind. The Minnesota State Patrol estimated about 6,000 people made up the massive crowd, and many headed to downtown St. Paul afterward for a street party celebrating the bill’s passage. Dayton’s...

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New video shows love Mormon couple have for their gay son

Tue, 14 May 2013 15:32:03 MDT

New video shows love Mormon couple have for their gay son

THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE

Updated May 14, 2013 03:32PM MDT

A doe-eyed 13-year-old Mormon boy named Jordan looks into the camera and says he was planning to disappear after college so his parents wouldn’t have to suffer any shame because of him. Why? Because he is gay. In a riveting new video produced by the Family Acceptance Project at San Francisco State University, Jordan and his LDS parents describe their experience of coping with the boy’s sexuality in the context of Mormonism. The 20-minute video traces the California couple’s transition from viewi...

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Minn. Senate OKs gay marriage; governor to sign

Mon, 13 May 2013 22:45:20 MDT

Minn. Senate OKs gay marriage; governor to sign

The Associated Press

Updated May 13, 2013 10:45PM MDT

St. Paul, Minn. • Spurring onlookers’ cheers, the Minnesota Senate voted Monday to make gay marriage legal, putting the state on the brink of becoming the 12th to allow same-sex couples to marry. Gov. Mark Dayton immediately announced he would sign the legislation Tuesday. The Senate vote of 37-30 came four days after the House passed the bill on a 75-59 vote. When the tally was announced after more than four hours of debate, a huge cheer erupted in the chamber and gallery, where spectators sto...

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Minn. OKs gay marriage; governor to sign

Mon, 13 May 2013 17:54:37 MDT

Minn. OKs gay marriage; governor to sign

By PATRICK CONDON and BRIAN BAKST The Associated Press

Updated May 13, 2013 05:54PM MDT

St. Paul, Minn. • Minnesota is set to become the 12th U.S. state where gay couples can get married after a final legislative vote Monday that will let the weddings start on Aug. 1. Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton has pledged to sign the bill, and scheduled a ceremony at 5 p.m. Tuesday on the front steps of the Capitol in St. Paul to do so. Minnesota is now the first state in Midwest to legalize gay marriage by legislative vote, and the third nationwide in just 10 days, joining Rhode Island and Delaw...

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Ginsburg: Roe gave abortion opponents a target

Sun, 12 May 2013 16:36:47 MDT

Ginsburg: Roe gave abortion opponents a target

By JASON KEYSER The Associated Press

Updated May 12, 2013 04:36PM MDT

Chicago • U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she supports a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion, but feels her predecessors’ landmark Roe v. Wade ruling 40 years ago was too sweeping and gave abortion opponents a symbol to target. Ginsburg, one of the most liberal members of the nation’s high court, spoke Saturday at the University of Chicago Law School. Ever since the decision, she said, momentum has been on abortion opponents’ side, fueling a state-by-state campaign th...

Utah’s Golden Rule

Sat, 11 May 2013 01:01:07 MDT

Utah’s Golden Rule

Updated May 11, 2013 01:01AM MDT

May 17 is the ninth anniversary for marriage equality in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the past nine years, not one individual, not one family, not one religious or civic organization has been harmed by secular equality. Not one. The average fifth-grader understands that some words are spelled the same but have completely different, unrelated meanings. For example, “nut” can mean: (a) an edible seed, or (b) a manufactured part used with a bolt to hold stuff together. Similarly, “marriage...

Polygamy and DOMA

Sat, 11 May 2013 01:01:06 MDT

Polygamy and DOMA

By mark goldfeder

Updated May 11, 2013 01:01AM MDT

While the Supreme Court ponders the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, activists along the political spectrum are voicing their opinions on monogamy’s core institution and whom it should include. Most miss the following point: DOMA doesn’t just prohibit gay marriage by defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman. It also prohibits plural marriage by limiting it to one and one. The plural marriage movement is real. An estimated 50,000 to 150,000 polygamous families alre...

Minnesota House approves gay marriage; would be 12th state

Thu, 09 May 2013 20:25:08 MDT

Minnesota House approves gay marriage; would be 12th state

By PATRICK CONDON and BRIAN BAKST The Associated Press

Updated May 9, 2013 08:25PM MDT

St. Paul, Minn. • A pivotal vote Thursday in the Minnesota House positioned that state to become the 12th in the country to allow gay marriages and the first in the Midwest to pass such a law out of its Legislature. The 75-59 vote was a critical step for the measure, which would allow same-sex weddings beginning this summer. It’s a startling shift in the state, where just six months earlier voters turned back an effort to ban them in the Minnesota Constitution. The state Senate plans to consider...

Branch of Mormonism ready to endorse same-sex marriage

Thu, 09 May 2013 09:27:03 MDT

Branch of Mormonism ready to endorse same-sex marriage

THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE

Updated May 9, 2013 09:27AM MDT

Now at least one branch of Mormonism is poised to embrace same-sex marriage. At their national meeting last month, delegates in the Community of Christ (formerly the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the second largest group that traces its origins to Mormon founder Joseph Smith) voted overwhelmingly to approve the ordination of gay people and marriages or covenant commitment services of gay couples. The move had three elements: • That the “sacrament of marriage be extend...