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UK Police: Royal Wedding Guests to Face Security Checks

LONDON -- British police say guests at the royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton will have to pass through security checks to enter Westminster Abbey. Indigo / Getty Images Security checks will be required for guests at Friday's wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton at Westminster...

Texas Mulls Repealing Transgender Marriage Rights [VIDEO]

New York Allows Same-Sex Conjugal Visits in State Prisons

New York inmates who are in same-sex marriages or civil unions are being allowed conjugal visits with their spouses or partners. The state officially announced the change in policy last week, making New York one of the few states to grant the private visits for gay and lesbian inmates in legally recognized same-sex...

Texas May Strip Away Transgender Marriage Rights

AUSTIN, Texas -- Two years after Texas become one of the last states to allow transgendered people to use proof of their sex change to get a marriage license, Republican lawmakers are trying to roll back the clock. Advocates for the transgendered say a proposal to bar transgendered people from getting married smacks of...

Beckham, Elton, Mr. Bean to Attend Royal Wedding

LONDON - David Beckham, Elton John and Mr. Bean actor Rowan Atkinson will mingle with dozens of royal guests at Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding, according to an official guest list released Saturday that includes one uncomfortable presence - the Bahraini crown prince accused of a brutal crackdown on...

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06/01/12 Jewish Groups Back Court Ruling on Gay Marriage Source: The Jewish Daily Forward - New York NY he Reform movement, the Anti-Defamation League and Rabbis for Human Rights-NA welcomed a court decision ruling unconstitutional an application of the Defense of Marriage Act. The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, in Boston, on Thursday upheld a lower court's ruling that denying gay couples federal benefits accorded to straight couples was unconstitutional.
06/01/12 How Groom's Friends Spoil the Show Source: AllAfrica.com It is a tradition in many societies for a groom's friends to visit him after his wedding to felicitate with him.
06/01/12 U.S. MARRIAGE ACT RULED UNFAIR Source: The San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego CA A federal appeals court ruled unanimously Thursday that the federal law declaring marriage to be a union solely between a man and a woman discriminates against married same-sex couples by denying them the same benefits afforded to heterosexual couples â a ruling that could set the stage for the Supreme Court to review the issue as early as next year.
06/01/12 Obama's gay marriage support makes his visit 'risky'?... Source: Windy City News - Chicago IL "[H]e'll be campaigning in another key state where his recent conversion to support of gay marriage could carry political risk. Minnesota voters will decide in November whether to approve a gay-marriage ban similar to those adopted in 30 other states. Although a majority of voters in nationwide polls say they support same-sex marriage, voters consistently have rejected gay marriage in state referendums since 2004. While Minnesota's 10 electoral votes are considered fairly safe for Mr. Obama, his May 9 announcement in support of same-sex marriage has produced a backlash. Catholic churches in Minnesota have donated more than $350,000 to Minnesota for Marriage, a group that supports the proposed constitutional ban on gay marriage. There are undercurrents of opposition in other communities. In St. Paul, the black pastor of Grace Community United Church of Christ is about to lose his church to foreclosure, primarily because of his seven-year-long support of same-sex marriage."
06/01/12 Platinum wedding is as exciting as big Jubilee... Source: Leamington SPA Courier WHILE the majority of us will be celebrating the Queen's Diamond Jubilee this weekend a Cubbington couple will be marking an extra special milestone of their own.