Speaker: Youth persuadable on gay marriage
[QUOTE@right@180="They'll come up to me afterwards and say, 'I didn't know these arguments existed.' That makes it worthwhile."
-- Jennifer Roback Morse]WASHINGTON (BP) -- Jennifer Roback Morse, an economist, rejects the notion that increasing support for homosexual marriage among young people means that its legalization is somehow inevitable.
Europe leads trend recognizing gay unions
WASHINGTON (BP) — A group of lawmakers from German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party has called for same-sex couples in civil partnerships to be given the same tax breaks as heterosexual married couples, continuing a trend in Europe toward legal recognition of same-sex relationships. But the idea faces skepticism among some of Merkel’s traditionally minded German […]
Europe leads trend recognizing gay unions
WASHINGTON (BP) — A group of lawmakers from German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party has called for same-sex couples in civil partnerships to be given the same tax breaks as heterosexual married couples, continuing a trend in Europe toward legal recognition of same-sex relationships. But the idea faces skepticism among some of Merkel’s traditionally minded German […]
Ill. marriage law will have court defender
CHICAGO (BP) -- An Illinois judge has granted intervenor status to the Thomas More Society to do what the Cook County state attorney and the Illinois attorney general won't do: defend the state's 1996 Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as being between a man and a woman.
Gay marriage legal battle moves to Ill.
CHICAGO (BP) — Two major pro-homosexual rights groups in Illinois have filed lawsuits hoping to see gay marriage legalized in the state. And with the state government unlikely to defend its law defining marriage as between one man and one woman, pro-family groups are starting to gear up for a long legal battle. The two […]
