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• Voters in Washington state approve gay marriage

  November 8, 2012 in Nation/World OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Voters in Washington state have approved gay marriage, joining Maine and Maryland as the first states to pass same-sex marriage by popular vote. Returns released since … 2

• Gay marriage, marijuana backed in historic votes

  November 7, 2012 in Nation/World Altering the course of U.S social policy, Maine and Maryland became the first states to approve same-sex marriage by popular vote, while Washington state and Colorado set up a showdown …

• Maine, Maryland vote to legalize gay marriage

  November 6, 2012 in Nation/World Voters a continent apart made history Tuesday on two divisive social issues, with Maine and Maryland becoming the first states to approve same-sex marriage by popular vote while Washington state … 1

• Maine votes in favor of legalizing gay marriage

  November 6, 2012 in Nation/World Maine residents have approved same-sex marriage, giving the gay rights movement a breakthrough victory. Gay marriage is legal in six states and Washington, D.C., but those laws were either enacted … 1

• Court upholds sale of polygamous church assets

  November 5, 2012 in Nation/World SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Monday that a polygamist sect on the Utah-Arizona border waited too long to challenge a court-ordered takeover, clearing the way … 2

• Complaint: NY wedding site banned same-sex couple

  October 22, 2012 in Nation/World ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Two upstate New York women turned away from a potential wedding site because they are gay have filed a discrimination complaint, setting up a possible precedent-setting … 2

• Deaf university roiled by gay marriage controversy

  October 19, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — Gallaudet University is under fire from both proponents and opponents of gay marriage after placing an administrator on leave for signing a petition to put Maryland’s gay-marriage …

• NY appeals court nixes Defense of Marriage Act

  October 18, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — Saying the gay population has “suffered a history of discrimination,” a divided federal appeals court in Manhattan ruled Thursday that a federal law defining marriage as … 1

• Gallaudet employee seeks reinstatement

  October 16, 2012 in Nation/World ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The chief diversity officer at the nation’s leading university for the deaf and hard of hearing is fighting for her job after signing a petition to …

• Democrats criticize legal spending to defend DOMA

  October 16, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The House’s top two Democrats are criticizing Republicans for spending nearly $1.5 million over the past 15 months on outside lawyers to defend the Defense of Marriage … 1

• Washington voters will decide fate of same-sex marriages

  October 15, 2012 in City on Page A1 OLYMPIA – Three years ago, Washington voters approved an “everything but marriage” law, giving same-sex couples all the state-granted rights and benefits that married couples have. Now voters will decide … 63

• Anti-gay marriage group airs TV advertisements

  October 14, 2012 in City on Page B3 OLYMPIA – The group fighting to overturn Washington’s gay marriage law started running its first TV ads in the state on Thursday. The 30-second ad from Preserve Marriage Washington is … 22

• SF prelate jokes about DUI charge at installation

  October 5, 2012 in Nation/World SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco’s new Roman Catholic archbishop made self-deprecating jokes about his recent drunken-driving arrest during his formal installation ceremony, which came just days after he pleaded … 1

• Scalia says abortion, gay rights are easy cases

  October 5, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Antonin Scalia says his method of interpreting the Constitution makes some of the most hotly disputed issues that come before the Supreme Court among the easiest …

• SF archbishop jokes about recent DUI arrest

  October 4, 2012 in Nation/World SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Amid heavy security and the splendor of his faith’s most sacred rites, the new Roman Catholic archbishop of San Francisco assumed office Thursday without referring to … 1

• SF archbishop selection riles gay rights advocates

  October 4, 2012 in Nation/World SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Amid heavy security and the splendor of his faith’s most sacred rites, the new Roman Catholic archbishop of San Francisco assumed office Thursday without referring to …

• Induction of SF archbishop brings cheers, rebukes

  October 4, 2012 in Nation/World SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The installation of a new Roman Catholic archbishop of San Francisco — a backer of California’s same-sex marriage ban — is drawing support and concern as …

• Justices open big term with new human rights case

  October 1, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court plunged into its new term Monday with a high-stakes dispute between businesses and human rights groups over accountability for foreign atrocities. The next nine …

• High court begins new term with human rights case

  October 1, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court opened its new term Monday with a high-stakes dispute between businesses and human rights groups over accountability for foreign atrocities. The justices appeared ready …

• Court won’t hear anti-gay marriage group appeal

  October 1, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal from a national anti-gay marriage group that tried to thwart Maine’s campaign disclosure law requiring it to …

• Another big Supreme Court term starts Monday

  October 1, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is starting a new term that is shaping up to be as important as the last one, with the prospect of major rulings about …

• Another big Supreme Court term kicks off Monday

  September 29, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — When last we saw the chief justice of the United States on the bench, John Roberts was joining with the Supreme Court’s liberals in an unlikely lineup …

• Gay couples may get reprieve in deportation cases

  September 28, 2012 in Nation/World SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security is planning to issue a policy memo stating that illegal immigrants with American same-sex partners are eligible to have their deportations …

• Gay marriage NY arguments put US lawyer on defense

  September 27, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court panel forced a Justice Department lawyer into an awkward position Thursday, making him explain the government’s decision to abandon defending the Defense … 1

• Gay marriage arguments set for NY appeals court

  September 27, 2012 in Nation/World NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. appeals court in New York is set to take its turn Thursday at considering the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, a federal …

• Chick-fil-A makes another statement on controversy

  September 20, 2012 ATLANTA (AP) — Chick-fil-A is once again in the public relations fryer. The controversy flared up this week when a Chicago politician said the company was no longer giving to …

• More states challenge US anti-gay marriage law

  September 8, 2012 MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont’s attorney general says the state is the latest to ask an appeals court to rule that the federal law defining marriage as between a man …

• 3 states oppose federal anti-gay marriage law

  September 8, 2012 MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The Vermont attorney general says the state has joined New York and Connecticut in asking a federal appeals court to rule the federal law that fails …

• 3 states support repeal of anti-gay marriage law

  September 8, 2012 MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The Vermont attorney general says the state has joined New York and Connecticut in asking a federal appeals court to rule the federal law that fails …

• Sign-of-the-times stats on eve of the conventions

  August 25, 2012 in Health A look at the U.S, past and present, by the numbers: LEAPS AND BOUNDS: The U.S. population has more than doubled since Mitt Romney was born in 1947. Population then: … 1

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