Gay Marriage
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‘Marriage for all’ in France as Hollande signs a bill and makes it law
The legislation also legalises gay adoption.
Poll: France has legalised gay marriage, would you welcome it in Ireland today?
French President Francois Hollande has signed gay marriage into law today, making it the 14th country to do so.
# gay-marriage - Wednesday 15 May, 2013
Brazil gives ‘green light’ to same-sex marriage
Brazil is the third and largest Latin American country to give a de facto green light to same-sex marriage.
# gay-marriage - Tuesday 30 April, 2013
Northern Ireland Assembly votes against calls for same-sex marriage
MLAs voted 53 to 42 against a motion which called on the Northern executive to allow civil marriage for same-sex couples.
# gay-marriage - Tuesday 23 April, 2013
France approves same-sex marriage and adoption
It is the 14th country in the world to say ‘Yes’ to marriage equality.
France to approve gay marriage but debate to rumble on
The bill to legalise same-sex marriage is expected to be comfortably carried, which will make France the 14th country in the world to legalise marriage equality.
# gay-marriage - Sunday 21 April, 2013
Column: The same-sex marriage debate shows ‘non-traditional’ families aren’t really accepted
As a single parent family, I realise we’ve only been tolerated as opposed to accepted as a proper family unit and because of the absence of the traditional set up we are somehow ‘less than’, writes Carol Redmond, who says same-sex unions are being treated in the same way.
# gay-marriage - Friday 19 April, 2013
Norris claims Iona Institute ‘tried to mislead constitutional convention’
Norris has called for an inquiry into whether the conservative think-tank misrepresented a study about child parenting.
# gay-marriage - Wednesday 17 April, 2013
The 5 at 5: Wednesday
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VIDEO: NZ House of Reps sings Maori love song after gay marriage vote
Warning: possible tearjerker.
# gay-marriage - Friday 12 April, 2013
Homophobic assaults surge in France amid gay marriage debate
Senators and members of parliament who support the bill have also been targeted.
# gay-marriage - Monday 1 April, 2013
US cardinal defends Catholic Church’s stance on gay marriage
Cardinal Timothy Dolan said sexual love is intended only for a man and woman in marriage.
# gay-marriage - Friday 29 March, 2013
Church stance on gay marriage could force Catholics to have two weddings
Catholic Bishops say they won’t recognise Ireland’s civil marriage system if it permits same-sex couples to wed.
# gay-marriage - Wednesday 27 March, 2013
US Supreme Court tackles law on benefits for same-sex marriage couples
83-year-old Edith Windsor was ordered to pay federal inheritance taxes of $363,000 following the 2009 death of Thea Spyer, her partner of more than 40 years.
The 9 at 9: Wednesday
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IN NUMBERS: US same-sex marriage
Yesterday, justices in the US Supreme Court heard arguments on whether same-sex couple have a constitutional right to marry.
# gay-marriage - Tuesday 26 March, 2013
The 9 at 9: Tuesday
Good morning! Here’s what you need to know as you kick off your Tuesday.
# gay-marriage - Sunday 24 March, 2013
Over 1,000 submissions to convention on same-sex marriage
The number of submissions made to the Constitutional Convention is almost 50 times the amount sent on other issues.
# gay-marriage - Tuesday 19 March, 2013
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Labour publishes draft law to allow same-sex civil marriage
Ivana Bacik and by-election candidate Eoin Holmes publish a bill which removes the same-sex ban on civil marriages.
# gay-marriage - Monday 18 March, 2013
Video: Hillary Clinton says she supports same-sex marriage
Clinton had previously said that she supported civil unions rather than marriage.
# gay-marriage - Monday 11 March, 2013
‘Unconstitutional’ to grant civil partnership to heterosexual couples
Alan Shatter says granting some marital obligations and protections to couples who could marry would violate the constitution.
# gay-marriage - Wednesday 6 March, 2013
Two years on: ‘We promised recovery. We are delivering’
Enda Kenny and Eamon Gilmore gave a press conference today to mark the coalition’s second anniversary in office.
# gay-marriage - Friday 1 March, 2013
Consititution Convention wants your suggestions on same sex marriage
The convention is encouraging organisations, citizens and the disapora to “make their voices heard” before its next meeting.
# gay-marriage - Saturday 23 February, 2013
Obama administration asks Supreme Court to strike down existing marriage law
The 1996 law defines marriage exclusively as a union between a man and a woman.
# gay-marriage - Thursday 14 February, 2013
Creighton can’t predict outcome of referendum on gay marriage
The EU Affairs minister tells the BBC she expects a referendum soon, but “genuinely” can’t predict whether it would pass.
# gay-marriage - Wednesday 6 February, 2013
Poll: Should Ireland legalise same-sex marriage?
Last night MPs voted for a draft law to legalise same-sex marriage in England and Wales. Should Ireland follow suit?
# gay-marriage - Tuesday 5 February, 2013
British parliament to vote on gay marriage
David Cameron has championed the drive to allow same-sex couples to marry.
# gay-marriage - Wednesday 9 January, 2013
Dutch priest to display photos of Church quitters
Many Catholics in the country were shocked by the Pope’s recent call to “fight” gay marriage.
# gay-marriage - Thursday 3 January, 2013
Almost 1,000 civil partnerships in Ireland in 2012
Now almost 2,000 people have entered civil partnerships since they became available in Ireland in April 2011.
# gay-marriage - Sunday 23 December, 2012
New COI Archbishop gives views on abortion, gay marriage
Archbishop Dr Richard Clarke said that he would be “as restrictive as one can with compassion and humanity” when it comes to abortion.
# gay-marriage - Saturday 22 December, 2012
Labour TD calls Pope’s gay marriage comments “deeply insulting”
John Lyons claims this is second time in a week that Vatican has “targeted the international LGBT community”.
# gay-marriage - Friday 21 December, 2012
The 5 at 5: Friday
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
Pope says mankind at stake over gay marriage
He said, “when God is denied, human dignity also disappears”.
# gay-marriage - Thursday 20 December, 2012
Chief Justice launches guide to rights for gay couples
The guidelines point out rights and obligations attached to civil partnerships and protection for cohabiting couples.
# gay-marriage - Monday 17 December, 2012
Vatican newspaper slams gay marriage as communist ‘utopia’
“Why repeat the same mistake and chase after an unattainable utopia?” read the daily’s front-page editorial.
# gay-marriage - Sunday 16 December, 2012
Gay rights activists protest at Pope’s Sunday morning prayer
Demonstrators held placards condemning homophobia after Pope Benedict said same-sex unions “destabilise marriage”.
# gay-marriage - Wednesday 12 December, 2012
British government to legalise same-sex marriage
But the legislation would make it unlawful for the Church of England and the Anglican Church in Wales to conduct gay weddings.
# gay-marriage - Tuesday 11 December, 2012
The Evening Fix…now with added raccoon called Rocky
Here are the things we learned, loved and shared today.
# gay-marriage - Monday 10 December, 2012
Washington State becomes latest US state to allow same sex marriage
Hundreds of couples flocked to get married in the northwest state of Washington yesterday – the first day possible following a referendum in November.
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