Articles about Marriage Equality

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4 January 2013
Gay Israeli MP conducts unofficial same-sex marriage ceremonies outside Rabbinic Court 10 Gay Israeli member of the Israeli Parliament or Knesset, Nitzan Horowitz has conducted three unofficial same-sex wedding ceremonies in front of the rabbinical court.
4 January 2013
Comment: A story about politics, friendship and equal marriage by a schoolboy 19 Writing for PinkNews.co.uk, Matthew Davies, a young college student in rural Hampshire explains how he previously felt unable to tell his friends to support equal marriage – until now.
4 January 2013
Illinois: Senate Committee approves same-sex marriage bill + Although Democrats in the state of Illinois have delayed a full Senate vote that was planned for Thursday to make same-sex marriage legal, the Senate Committee approved the bill a few hours ago.
3 January 2013
Illinois Democrats delay vote on making same-sex marriage legal 3 Democrats in the state of Illinois have delayed a vote that was planned for today to make same-sex marriage legal.
3 January 2013
Gay Catholic Mass organisers: We’re stopping services because we’re victims of our own success 42 Following reports yesterday that Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols had ruled that masses throughout Soho in central London, designed specifically for gay people must end, the organisers of the masses say that they are ceasing their masses because they are victims of their own success.
3 January 2013
Comment: Gay sex needs to be taught in schools regardless of what MPs think 30 Benjamin Butterworth argues that despite what MPs such as Welsh Conservative David Davies says, you can't indoctrinate teenagers into gay sex.
3 January 2013
Tory MP: Gay couples are being treated ‘equally’ – so there’s no need for same-sex marriage 86 Following a meeting with community religious leaders, Conservative MP John Stevenson says he remains opposed to equal marriage.
3 January 2013
UK: Teenage campaigner gathers support for marriage equality on Boxing Day 9 A gay teenage marriage equality campaigner collected signatures on Boxing Day, after learning that her local MP was to vote against marriage equality, and found that many of his constituents support equal marriage.
3 January 2013
Republican Chairman: It is time for people to support marriage equality 12 A Republican Party chairman has urged lawmakers to get behind a proposal to legalise marriage equality in Illinois.
2 January 2013
Westboro Baptist Church protest at gay weddings in Maryland 15 The anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church staged a demonstration against equal marriage in Maryland on Wednesday – with gay couples now legally able to marry in the state.
2 January 2013
Lesbian couple celebrate with France’s first baby of 2013 3 The first baby in France to be born in 2013 was by a lesbian couple, although current inequality means only one of the parents has formal legal recognition.
2 January 2013
Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols bans gay masses in Soho 116 The Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols has announced that masses throughout Soho in central London, designed specifically for gay people, are to end.
2 January 2013
US: Transgender man faces difficulty in getting divorced from wife 25 Thomas Beatie, a transgender father of three, is fighting an Arizona judge to get a divorce from his wife of nine years, Nancy Beatie, with a decision due next month.
2 January 2013
Tory MP Henry Smith: I’m against same-sex marriage, but I’m no homophobe 135 Conservative MP Henry Smith claims he’s “no homophobe” after encountering criticism to his opposition to equal marriage.
1 January 2013
Comment: A lesson on equal marriage for the Archbishop of Westminster by a gay teacher 69 Gay teacher Richard Queripel explains in an open letter to the head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales how wrong he is to use the teaching of marriage in schools as an argument against allowing same-sex couples to get married.
31 December 2012
Maryland: Couples await midnight for state’s first same-sex marriages 7 Numerous gay couples across Maryland will be celebrating the New Year with a bumper toast as they share the occasion with their marriages, the first to be conducted following the a referendum to legislate for marriage equality.
31 December 2012
Archbishop of Chicago: Same-sex marriage ‘violates natural law’ 59 The Catholic Archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Francis George, has warned against introducing marriage equality in the state of Illinois because he claims gay couples cannot consummate their unions.
31 December 2012
Comment: The leadership of the Catholic Church are hate-fuelled bigots 116 In light of today’s dramatic announcement that Pope Benedict XVI intends to step down – let us point you to this PinkNews comment piece by Adrian Tippetts – published at the end of last year about the Catholic Church’s leadership.
31 December 2012
Catholic Church tells worshippers to bombard MPs with letters telling them to vote against gay equality 96 For the first time, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales has told worshipers to bombard MPs with letters to lobby them to vote against introducing same-sex marriage.
30 December 2012
Catholic think tank: Same-sex marriage denies children the right to be raised by their parents 50 The Irish Catholic think tank the Iona Institute, has released a video and a document that argues that gay couples should be banned from marrying "for the sake of the children." It also argues that same-sex marriage could lead to children not being brought up by their parents.

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