Countries With Legalized Same-Sex Marriage
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Same-Sex Marriage: A Call For Intense Dialogue
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In the present ongoing discussion about same-sex marriages, the one thing that seems to be missing within the Roman Catholic Church and within our country, is a dialogue among people who respect one another. And for me, as your pastor, it is much easier to remain silent, than to take up the challenge to use…
Marriage – History or Mystery? by Sally M. Masters
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As we celebrate the 25th anniversary of Northampton Pride and the 2nd anniversary of the legal recognition of same sex marriage in Massachusetts this year, history has been at the forefront of my mind. Several thousand same sex couples have married in Massachusetts over the past two years, and life is only better for the…
How the Grinch Stole Marriage
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by Mary Ann Horton, Lisa and Bill Koontz (with apologies to Dr. Suess.) Every Gay down in Gayville liked Gay Marriage a lot……But the Grinch, who lived just east of Gayville, did NOT!! The Grinch hated happy Gays! The whole Marriage season!Now, please don’t ask why. No one quite knows the reason.It could be his…
Just Married, After 51 Years Together
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Activist Gay Couple Accepts Leading Role SAN FRANCISCO — The bride on the left wears a lavender pantsuit. The other bride carries a gold-chained purse. As the music starts, they begin making their way toward the stage. They walk slowly, not because they want to, but because this is how they walk at age 83…
LGBTQ Families Speak Out
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Know Gender Identity Terms to Raise Awareness in the Workplace
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Statement on Same-Sex Marriage
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CALGARY – Yesterday the Liberal government introduced their much-awaited marriage legislation. The decision I have come to has been a difficult one. I have spoken to many hundreds in my riding of Calgary Centre-North. I have met with many community leaders including religious leaders from Calgary and representatives of the gay community. I have held…
Couple Has Everything But A Ring
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Buoyed by hope, Kathy Barkley and Riki Blackwell, a married couple in every way but the one that legally counts, had planned a trip downstate this weekend. Then the weather out of Albany took a not-so-surprising turn. They had to call the whole thing off. Riki turned 51 on Saturday. For her birthday, she and…
Same Sex Marriage Miscellaneous
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May 26, 2017 – Countries (nationwide or in some parts) that now legally recognize same-sex marriage are: Argentina, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, Columbia, Denmark, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay. Note that this list is different than…
Church of Scotland Expected to Move Towards Gay Marriage
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May 21, 2017 – Scotland is moving towards being the country in the UK with most liberal Christian practice on gay marriage with the Church of Scotland and the Scottish Episcopal Church both taking steps in this direction in the near future. On Thursday the Church of Scotland is expected to back same-sex marriage in…
The Power of Legal Marriage (by David Brooks)
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Anybody who has several sexual partners in a year is committing spiritual suicide. He or she is ripping the veil from all that is private and delicate in oneself, and pulverizing it in an assembly line of selfish sensations. But marriage is the opposite. Marriage joins two people in a sacred bond. It demands that…
Canadian Military Performs First Gay Wedding
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HALIFAX, NS — The military has marked its first same-sex wedding, more than a decade after gays were allowed to join the Armed Forces. Two servicemen, who do not want to be named, exchanged vows May 3 at the chapel at CFB Greenwood, N.S., in front of 45 friends and a United Church minister. Lt.-Cmdr….
Equality Watch – In The News
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April 11, 2018 – Maryland has become the 12th state to ban gay conversion therapy by health professionals. It joins Washington State, California, Massachusetts, Illinois and several others in banning the practice, which often leads to depression and suicidal behavior in minors. Florida still allows it, but several South Florida cities have outlawed it. They…
Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart Threatens To Kill Gays
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by Jan Prout 365Gay.com Newscenter Toronto Bureau Posted: September 20, 2004 12:02 am ET (Toronto, Ontario) A Canadian television station has apologized publicly to viewers for a telecast of American evangelist Jimmy Swaggart’s television program in which he threatened to kill gays. The program, aired last week on Omni 1, a Toronto multicultural station, and…
Mx – A Gender-Neutral Honorific Added To Merriam-Webster Dictionary
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The gender-neutral Mx. is used as a title for those who do not identify as being of a particular gender, or for people who simply don’t want to be identified by gender. Though the earliest print evidence dates to 1977, the word has only recently become popular. Pronounced to sound like mix or mux, the…
Marriage, Loving and the Law
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In June 1958, Virginia residents Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter traveled to Washington, D.C., got married and returned home. An unexceptional story but for one fact: Richard was white and Mildred black. Their marriage therefore violated Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act. The Lovings were convicted in Virginia court and sentenced to a year in jail, with…
Crossing Lines – One Person’s Thoughts About Same-Sex Blessings
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We all grow up being taught the conventional wisdom of our surroundings. I never knew anyone whom I could identify as being a homosexual until I was in college — nice people didn’t talk about that. On the other hand, early on I learned the language of ridicule. There was a boy in our neighborhood…
Gay Marriage About Taking Responsibility
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The Liberal sponsorship scandal, the Enron affair and the Parmalat case seem to be symptoms of a failure in modern Western culture. We put too much emphasis on individual rights and not enough on individual responsibilities. The public clamours for the individuals responsible for corporate and government failures to face the same sort of criminal…
Contra Sola Scriptura
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A History of Gay and Lesbian Rights in the United States From 1610 To 2000
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Year Event 1610 Virginia Colony passes first anti-sodomy law in America. 1786 Pennsylvania becomes the first of 13 states to drop the death penalty for sodomy. 1924 The first gay rights group in the United States, the Society for Human Rights, is founded in Chicago. 1950 U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy starts a massive nationwide hunt…
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The Love that Proudly Speaks its Name
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Lloyd Thornhill and his partner Bob Peacock were married last year in Canada and were involved in the court case for equal marriage in Canada. Below is a presentation they made to the government’s Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights back on April 1, 2003 before they won the right to marry. Vancouver, BC,…
Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Ban On Transgender Service Members
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Oct 30, 2017 – President Trump’s would-be ban on transgender service members in the military has been blocked from going into effect for the foreseeable future. A U.S. district judge in Washington, D.C., decided on Monday that trans members of the military have a strong case that the president’s ban would violate their Fifth Amendment…
When Marriage Between Gays Was a Rite
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As the churches struggle with the issue of homosexuality, a long tradition of gay marriage indicates that the Christian attitude towards same sex unions may not always have been as “straight” as is now suggested, writes Jim Duffy. A Kiev art museum contains a curious icon from St. Catherine’s monastery on Mt. Sinai. It shows…
The State’s Role in Marriage (Part 2)
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Read Part 1 of this article. Today, as Canadians (or at least those of us who vote) are choosing our government for the next five years, I want to recall the words of a former national leader. On Dec. 22, 1967, defending the decriminalization of homosexual behaviour, Pierre Elliott Trudeau opined that “The state has…
The State’s Role in Marriage (Part 1)
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A possible Conservative victory in the upcoming federal election could mean social policies favouring a traditional “family” ideology: Where men are men and women are housewives and sexual and reproductive freedom is set back half a century. It’s an outcome too depressing to be worth discussion. Instead, I want to talk about one aspect of…
Mildred Loving, Matriarch of Interracial Marriage, Dies
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Equality Forum Mourns Civil Rights Pioneer May 5, 2008 In 1958, Mildred Jeter, a black woman legally married Richard Loving, a white man in the District of Columbia. They returned to their home in Virginia. Under a Virginia law enacted in 1662, blacks and whites were prohibited from marrying. In 1967, in the case of…
New York City Creates Gender-Neutral ‘X’ Option For Birth Certificates
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – People who were born in New York City and do not identify as male or female can now opt for a third gender category of X on their birth certificates. Mayor Bill de Blasio signed the provision into a law on Tuesday, making New York City the fifth place to do…