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Rick Santorum Blames Decline in Marriage Rates on Marriage Equality

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

Rick Santorum indirectly sounded off on same-sex marriage yet again today, blaming the “changing definition” of the institution for plummeting rates of marriage across the nation.

On his Twitter account, the GOP candidate wrote: “Here is 1 effect of changing definition of marriage @HuffingtonPost: Marriage rate in America drops to new low”

Included in Santorum’s Tweet is a link to a HuffPost Weddings interview with D’Vera Cohn, a Pew researcher and senior writer who spoke at length about a new survey which found that the number of Americans who are getting married has hit a record low.

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Binational Gay Couple Forced to Relocate to Italy From USA

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

INSTEAD of going on a honeymoon, they’re going into exile. Benjamin Anderson, a disabled U.S. Coast Guard veteran, wed his long-term partner, Italian immigrant Mattia Lumaca, in a bittersweet Manhattan ceremony Wednesday.

Even though Anderson’s an American citizen, the pair are barred from getting immigration benefits as a gay couple by the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
So on Friday, the Salt Lake City spouses are leaving the country that Anderson served.

“This is the choice I’ve been given — my country or my love. So what do you do?” said Anderson, 55, who wore a pair of pink suspenders for the occasion.

Full Story from the NY Daily News

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Marriage Issues for Transgender Citizens

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011

I have been repeatedly approached lately with inquiries regarding the validity of marriages of Transgender individuals. Clearly this is an area of concern and interest about which there is not a lot of information available.

The issue is actually a lot less complicated than it would appear to be and depends a great deal on when the transition took place.

Some transgender people marry an individual of the opposite gender and subsequently undergo sex-reassignment. This results in a married couple who are of the same gender. Cases have been brought in several states including New Jersey, Louisiana, Florida, and here in California, among others, attempting to invalidate such marriages.

Full Story from SDGLN

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Cheyenne Jackson: Marriage Made Our Relationship Better

Monday, November 14th, 2011

Busy entertainer Cheyenne Jackson says that even though he’s been with partner Monte Lapke for over a decade, their recent marriage has changed their relationship for the better, according to a new interview with Broadway World.

While promoting  Cheyenne Jackson’s Cocktail Hour: Music of the Mad Men Era, his upcoming concert at Carnegie Hall with the New York Pops, Jackson discussed his decision to get married last September, taking advantage of New York’s marriage equality law.

“We have been together almost 11 years and we didn’t know how much being married and legally, officially being married would change things,” Jackson says. “But, I have to say that — I hate the word spiritual; just because it doesn’t feel right – but, it’s the closest word I guess I can use to describe the palpable shift that happens when you do make it legal, in that we really do feel closer and more connected.”

via The Advocate.

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Study Shows US Gay/Lesbian Couples Prefer Marriage to Civil Unions

Thursday, November 10th, 2011

Study of US Gay and Lesbian CouplesA US study author has said the country’s gay couples take advantage of new equal marriage rights more quickly than other legally recognised unions when they are introduced.

The study, by The Williams Institute, was designed to create a country-wide representation of the demand for legal recognition among same-sex couples. It compared data for states with full marriage equality and states with civil unions.

In the US, over 140,000 same-sex couples have had their relationship recognised by state law and nearly 50,000 have married. The data showed that same-sex couples are marrying at higher rates than they are entering civil unions or other legally recognised partnerships, particularly when the options are first introduced by a state.

Full Story from Pink News

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The Real History of Marriage

Monday, October 31st, 2011

Homosexual acts between men are presently illegal in the tiny Central American nation of Belize, with punishments as harsh as ten years in prison. But according to the quite nasty alert I’ve just been forwarded, Belize’s sodomy law will be reviewed by the nation’s highest court on December 5th.

The homosexual organization UNIBAM (United Belize Advocacy Movement) and Caleb Orozco has brought a lawsuit against the Attorney General, and thus, Govt. of Belize, seeking to change Section 53 of the Criminal Code, which says: “Any person who has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any person or any animal shall be liable to 10 years imprisonment.”

Orosco & UNIBAM are seeking to remove the words “any person or” so that this law would not apply to interpersonal relationships but only that of sex with animals.

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Rachel Maddow Personally Ambivalent on Marriage

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

Rachel Maddow revealed her conflicted feelings about gay marriage in a new cover interview with the Hollywood Reporter.

The interview was published Wednesday. In it, Maddow said that, though she and her longtime partner, artist Susan Mikula, knew many people who had gotten married, the two didn’t “feel any urgency” to join them. The reason, she said, was that she is ambivalent about the assimilationist aspect of gay marriage.

“I feel that gay people not being able to get married for generations, forever, meant that we came up with alternative ways of recognizing relationships,” she told THR. “And I worry that if everybody has access to the same institutions that we lose the creativity of subcultures having to make it on their own. And I like gay culture.”

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Marriage According to the Bible

Monday, October 3rd, 2011

Marriage in the bible has many forms beyond the oft-cited 1 man plus 1 woman. A handy chart sums it all up.

Full Story from Joe.My.God

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Santorum’s Latest: Marriage is Like Tea

Friday, August 12th, 2011

Rick Santorum just can’t help himself. He has compared same-sex marriage to water and a napkin, but not beer or a paper towel. Yesterday, during an appearance in Iowa, he explained that “calling same-sex marriage a marriage would be like calling a cup of tea a basketball.”

But cut the guy some slack, coming up with all of these analogies is actually making him sick! As Mother Jones’ Gavin Aronsen reports, Santorum was battling laryngitis, trying save his voice for tonight’s GOP Presidential debate, and still managed to spend “a quarter of his speech explaining how our rights come from God, not any gay-friendly government.” He refused to answer questions about whether he would appoint a Supreme Court justice to overturn Lawrence v. Texas or why he — the small government advocate — had agreed to appoint a government commission to investigate the intimidation of anti-gay activists:

After the event, Santorum dodged a question from Mother Jones about his past criticism of Lawrence v. Texas, the 2003 Supreme Court case that struck down the Lone Star State’s ban on sodomy.

Full Story fromThink Progress

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NY: Some Gay Couples Ask “Is Marriage Right for Us?”

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

Gay Marriage ConcernsThousands of same-sex couples in New York State will be diving into wedding preparations in the months to come, but amid the historic celebrations there will also be another group: same-sex couples who are choosing not to get married. For them, there are plenty of good reasons – legal, financial and personal – they won’t ever say “I do.”

Many same-sex couples say they want to get married but can’t because it could mean losing the person they love since New York’s new same-sex marriage law does nothing to change federal law.

Under the Defense of Marriage Act, the federal government does not recognize same-sex marriages, and legal experts say that creates a huge disparity in the immigration system.

Full Story from WNYC

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