Full Coverage: The road to same-sex marriage
Declaring that gay unions deserve equal respect and dignity under the law, the Supreme Court has ruled that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry nationwide without regard to their state’s laws.
The 5-4 opinion, written by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, will stand as a landmark in civil rights law and culminates a two-decade struggle for gays and lesbians to win marriage equality under the Constitution.
Same-sex couples “ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right,” Kennedy wrote.
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In a state where 86% of voters cast ballots for a ban on gay weddings in 2004, and where opposition is fierce to last week’s Supreme Court ruling declaring same-sex marriage a constitutional right, Meeke Addison stands out from the fire-and-brimstone preachers and politicians usually associated with the fight against gay marriage.
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Add Stephen Colbert to the chorus of celebrities and media personalities cheering Friday’s Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell vs.
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Duane Smith, who works in financial services, had Friday off.
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The Supreme Court ruling that legalized same-sex marriage in the U.S. raised many questions over the status of marriage in the country.
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Rainbows burst across the Internet on Friday morning after the Supreme Court declared same-sex marriage constitutional nationwide, reflecting the progressive values of many tech companies that have long advocated for gay rights.
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When the Supreme Court convened in 1967 to decide the case of Loving vs.
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Political reformers in California and Arizona and the voters who supported them won a big round at the Supreme Court on Monday, when the justices upheld the use of independent redistricting commissions to draw election districts for members of Congress.
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The Supreme Court cleared the way Monday for Oklahoma to continue using a lethal drug cocktail for executions, but, in a surprising dissent, two liberal justices opened the door to what could become a historic challenge to the death penalty itself.
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The Supreme Court has blocked Obama administration rules designed to sharply limit the hazardous air pollutants that spew from the nation’s power plants.
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The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a University of Texas case for a second time to decide a constitutional challenge to affirmative action policies at colleges and universities.
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As active members of the gay-straight alliance at Napa High School, Carley Solberg and her friends fought hard for this moment, when acceptance would feel a little more real.
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Amber Hamilton and Annice Smith were the first same-sex couple to wed in Mississippi, and nearly the last, at least for a while.
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Prominent members of the performing and visual arts professions have voiced their approval of Friday’s ruling by the Supreme Court legalizing same-sex marriage around the country.
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Veteran actor Ian McKellen celebrated with a Vine video.
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In the immediate aftermath of the U.S.
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The Supreme Court’s historic ruling Friday granting gays and lesbians an equal right to marry nationwide puts an exclamation point on a profound shift in law and public attitudes, and creates the most significant and controversial new constitutional liberty in more than a generation.
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The news spread across California through a flurry of tweets, texts, likes, links and media alerts: Same-sex marriage is now the law of the land.
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The legal world may have become inured to wildly rhetorical opinions by Justice Antonin Scalia, but his dissent in the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage decision Friday reaches new heights for its expression of utter contempt for the majority of his colleagues.
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In a display of judicial temperament right out of People vs.
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Matthew Mansell woke up in his Placentia home Friday morning and began to get ready for work like it was any other day.
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Even as a lesbian in a conservative Southern state, Katrina Martir managed to thrive in central Kentucky.
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Gay rights lawyers went to the Supreme Court hoping to find a majority of justices ready to support a historic ruling that would declare same-sex couples had an equal right to marry nationwide.
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Gavin Newsom strolled down the steps of the U.S.
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Kinsey Morrison, a freshman at Stanford University, is going to the Supreme Court on Tuesday to speak up for her parents, and the stable, loving household they provided for her and her two sisters.
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As the Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments on same-sex marriage, a new poll shows that more American adults are believed to be in gay marriages or domestic partnerships than had been previously thought.
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When it comes to attending a gay wedding, not all presidential aspirants say “I do.”
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In a move sure to please activists who had been frustrated by her conditional support for same-sex marriage, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign says she now wants the Supreme Court to back marriage equality as a constitutional right.
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There are more than 30 plaintiffs in the gay marriage lawsuits that will be argued before the Supreme Court this month.
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Mary Bonauto, the Boston lawyer who won the first gay marriage rulings in Massachusetts and Vermont, will lead the argument before the Supreme Court in favor of a constitutional right to same-sex marriage nationwide.
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About 9 o’clock the night of Feb. 8, Judge Tim Russell felt his phone vibrate, which seemed strange at that hour.
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Most legally married same-sex couples will be entitled to take up to 12 weeks leave to care for an ailing spouse regardless of whether the state in which they live recognizes their marriage under a rule issued Wednesday by the Department of Labor.
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When Justice Anthony M.
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At first, they were just joking.
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Setting the stage for its most significant ruling on gay rights, the U.S.
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A federal judge ruled Thursday that Michigan must validate nearly 300 same-sex marriages, although the decision will not take effect until next month and could be appealed by the state.
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For the first time, a majority of Americans are living in a state that allows gay marriage.
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A single conversation with a gay or lesbian door-to-door canvasser had the ability to change attitudes on same-sex marriage in neighborhoods that overwhelmingly opposed such unions, according to new research.
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A federal appeals court panel in Ohio upheld four states’ bans on gay marriage Thursday, setting the stage for the Supreme Court to rule finally on the constitutionality of same-sex marriage.
