Tag: same-sex marriage
Australian Liberal MP pushes for vote on same-sex marriage
Liberal MP Warren Entsch has asked the prime minister to introduce legislation to allow same-sex marriage and use a plebiscite to ratify any changes.
15,000 gay couples in England, Wales tie the knot since change in law
More than 7,300 same sex couples in England and Wales have said those immortal words “I do” since the law on marriage changed last year, figures released Tuesday in London revealed.
‘Same-sex marriage coming to Northern Ireland’ says U.S lawmaker
Same-sex marriage is coming to Northern Ireland. That is the message which a pioneering New York legislator brought to Belfast on 9 October in a keynote speech to campaigners.
Openly gay U.S ambassador to Denmark weds partner
The U.S. ambassador to Denmark has married his partner in the Scandinavian country that became the first nation to allow gay couples to formalise their unions in 1989.
Vatican feels ‘regret’ over Kim Davis meeting
Pope Francis’ meeting last week with an American woman at the centre of a row over gay marriage was not something he had sought and should not be seen as an endorsement of her views, the Vatican says.
Deeply Troubling: Carly Fiorina Denies Her Own Words on Marriage Equality
Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation, reacted to news that Carly Fiorina has attempted to deny and walk back her own words suggesting that the Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v Hodges, the case that led to nationwide marriage equality is the law of the land.