Marriage Laws

Source: au.rd.yahoo.com --- 24 days ago
Several thousand people have gathered in Los Angeles to protest against a voter-approved measure that bans same-sex Marriage in California.An estimated 5,000 people carried signs and chanted against Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment that bars the state from recognising such unions. ...

Source: fametastic.co.uk --- 26 days ago
Lindsay Lohan’s girlfriend Samantha Ronson has said she can’t believe voters in California passed measures to ban same-sex marriages this week. Proposition 8 sought to overturn the California Supreme Court’s May decision to allow Marriage to take place between same-sex couples and passed during Tuesday’s elections by 52% of the vote. Similar legislation was passed [...] ...

Source: www.standard.net --- 19 days ago
We, the people of the United States, have been blessed by God because we've chosen our governing Laws to align with God's Laws. When we choose to enact Laws that do not align with God's Laws, we are choosing to reject God and his blessings. ...

Source: www.theasiannews.co.uk --- 8 days ago
NEW Laws to protect people forced to marry against their will come into force today. ...

Source: forums.hannity.com --- 10 days ago
Or was Prop 8 retroactive? ...

Source: americansfortruth.com --- 9 days ago
In the United States of America, nobody — Christian or otherwise — should ever be forced to support or subsidize immoral homosexual relationships against their moral beliefs. Religious exemptions may appear to be a short-term solution to the problem of “competing rights” between traditional American liberties and newfangled “gay/transgender rights” Laws, but in the [...] ...

Source: www.traderscommunity.com --- 4 days ago
The following is a look at Laws on gay Marriage and same-sex civil unions in the United States: * Massachusetts' highest court ruled in 2003 that a ban on gay Marriage was unconstitutional, paving the way for America's first same-sex marriages the following year. * Connecticut's Supreme Court overturned a ban on same-sex Marriage on Oct. 10. Local authorities began issuing Marriage licenses on Nov. 12, making it the second U.S. state to allow gay and lesbian couples to marry after Massachusetts. * California began marrying gay and lesbian couples in June 2008, a month after the state Supreme Court ruled that barring same-sex marriages was unconstitutional. But that was reversed on Nov. 4 when Californians voted in support of a proposition to amend the state constitution to ban same-sex Marriage. * New Hampshire, New Jersey and Vermont permit same-sex civil unions that grant largely the same state rights as married couples -- from insurance coverage to tax benefits and hospital visiting rights -- but lack the full legal protections of Marriage. * Maine, the District of Columbia, Hawaii and Washington each offer gay couples some legal rights as partners. * Forty-four states have Laws explicitly prohibiting same-sex Marriage, including 29 with constitutional amendments restricting Marriage to one man and one woman. * The patchwork of Laws has caused some unusual complications. Rhode Island's top court, for example, ruled in December 200 ...

Source: www.ctemploymentlawblog.com --- 8 days ago
The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) has an article out today on their website (subscription may be required) about the effect that same-sex Marriage Laws and rulings are having on employers. The article compares California's Proposition 8 initiative with Connecticut's recent decision legalizing same-sex marriages.  As you will see, the reporter was kind enough to talk with me about the issue. Although I discussed some of the similar themes I've raised before , the contrast with California is pretty striking.  “Same-sex Marriage in Connecticut is here and very likely is here to stay,” Daniel Schwartz, an attorney with Pullman and Comley in Hartford, C onn., told SHRM Online Nov. 18. ... However, Schwartz also noted that since Connecticut already had a civil union law, “this isn’t going to change that much if employers have had employees who have entered into civil unions.” From a practical point of view, employers need to give employees who have entered into civil unions the same benefits as they would to married couples, he explained. He went on to say however, that where the differences may come is that “there are a lot of employees who did not enter into civil unions who will now get married.” He advised employers to take three steps in light of the change in the law: • Review polices and make sure that they are non-gender or sexual orientation specific to account for same sex Marriage. How do you do that? Use terms li ...

Source: hunterforjustice.typepad.com --- 7 days ago
From the infuriatingly libertarian, but consistent, Richard Epstein of the University of Chicago Law, a column in Forbes on Prop 8, and why the answer is to de-regulate Marriage from any government licensing: Today's harsh skirmishing over Prop 8 starts from the common assumption that the state has the right to issue Marriage licenses, so that the only question worth asking is whether it can discriminate between gay and straight couples. But to the libertarian, the antecedent inquiry is whether the state has any proper role in issuing Marriage licenses at all. Historically, people married long before the state issued its licenses. As with all licenses, the libertarian demands that the state justify any restriction on individual choice. By what warrant does the state regulate Marriage? Not to protect children, who need as much protection against single parents as against married couples. For that end, use Laws prohibiting abuse or neglect that are tied to child custody, not Marriage. More seductively, defenders of Proposition 8 insist that it is needed to "protect" Marriage. From what? Surely not against threats of force designed to prevent couples from getting married. Unfortunately here, the "protection" is not against force, but against competition. That protection is no more legitimate than using high tariffs walls to protect American producers against foreign competition. Truth is that free entry works in both cases. It is no busi ...

Source: utahpirateradio.com --- 18 days ago
Join the forum discussion on this post - (1) PostsThis is some commentary on the recent election concerning proposition 8, and marijuana decriminalization. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZoscFM97O8 ...

Source: marriage.about.com --- 6 days ago
If you are considering applying for a Marriage license in the state of Texas, here is what you need to bring with you, and what you need to know about the Texas Marriage Laws before filling out the Texas Marriage license application. ...

Source: marriage.about.com --- 6 days ago
Here's what you need to know and what documents to bring with you before you apply for a Costa Rican Marriage license. Don't let the Marriage license Laws of Costa Rica put a dent in your wedding plans. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 4 days ago
While the new Laws give same-sex partners many of the same rights and protections as married couples, they will not allow gays and lesbians to wed under the Marriage Act, which was redrawn by the last Conservative government to define Marriage as ...

Source: www.telegraph.co.uk --- 11 days ago
New Laws will come into force this week to help young British women of Asian background who are forced into Marriage against their will. Diplomats rescued one such 15yearold before it was too late. ...

Source: www.latimes.com --- 16 days ago
A Colorado battle may offer a means of challenging California's same-sex Marriage ban. In 1992, by a 53%-47% split, Coloradans passed an amendment to their state Constitution that repealed Laws in Aspen, Boulder and Denver that prohibited discrimination against gays. The amendment barred the state and its political subdivisions from adopting or enforcing any law "whereby homosexual, lesbian or bisexual orientation, conduct, practices or relationships" are the basis of a claim of discrimination. Does this sound familiar? ...

Source: open.salon.com --- 1 day ago
Social change starts with individuals. Are Charles Merrill, Melissa Etheridge (pending until 4/15), and myself the ONLY three (3) citizens of ANY (any) Love-Orientation who are FED UP ENOUGH to take a PUBLIC STAND against multiple immoral, unjust legal discriminations by our government ? How could we NOT draw a line in the sand? Treating us as 3rd-class Social-Lepers is a cruel legal prejudice whose repercussions profoundly harm our lives. These Laws affect our: Family Children Home Career Property Security Beloved.....in other words, our... "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness". I've heard from and met 100's and 100's of LGBTIQ folks over the past 20 years who silently protest this TAXATION WITHOUT EQUALITY by refusing to pay taxes at all and/or living exclusively in the "underground" (cash) economy, but far too many fear the IRS and refrain from making a public stand. Would YOU go to a restaurant if YOU had to pay MORE money for the SAME entree other patrons may purchase for LESS? Would YOU go to a restaurant if YOU had to pay the SAME amount for LESS food? INSANITY. But I do not blame them one bit for refusing to pay a government that legally treats their families as if they were worthless, disposable, and SUB-human adults and children. Perhaps not enough people within the LGBTIQ community have experienced the personal and financial devastation that DOES HAPPENS without Marriage rights; trauma, cruelty, and pain will g ...

Source: blog.beliefnet.com --- 8 days ago
In your latest entry, Tony, you choose to focus on the state's role in defining Marriage as a legal institution, and point out that the legal definition of Marriage has changed over time (e.g., the defeat of Laws against... ...

Source: www.un.org --- 4 days ago
A United Nations-backed summit to combat the sexual exploitation of children today called for a comprehensive strategy comprising Laws, policies, regulations and services across all social sectors as well as a shift in social attitudes and practices, such as child Marriage. ...

Source: www.sundaysun.co.uk --- 8 days ago
New Laws to stop women being forced into Marriage and to protect those already married against their have come into force. ...

Source: www.thehindu.com --- 4 days ago
A man who blinded a woman in an acid attack after she spurned his Marriage proposals has been sentenced to the same punishment, in a literal application of Iran’s sharia eye-for-an-eye Laws. In a highly unusual judgment, Tehran ... ...