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FactFinder 12 Survey: Same-sex marriages
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsThe Supreme Court is hearing arguments on California's same-sex marriage ban. How do you feel about same-sex couples' rights? 1. Should same-sex couples be able to share in the legal benefits of marriage, such as the right to inherit property and the...Tags: Family, Marriage, Social Issues, Same-Sex Marriage, Gays and Lesbians
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DOMA, Supreme Court face tide of Twitter criticism
As the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday over the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, supporters and opponents of the law took to the Web to make their own case. Enacted in 1996 under a Republican Congress and Democratic...
Tags: Family, Twitter, Inc., Arts and Culture, Social Issues, Lawyers
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Supreme Court likely to strike down DOMA, experts say
Experts said that based on Wednesday's arguments, the U.S. Supreme Court appears willing to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act. Gay rights lawyer Jon W. Davidson said Wednesday that the U.S. Supreme Court was likely to permit married same-sex...
Tags: Samuel A. Alito, Family, Elena Kagan, Social Issues, Laws
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Excerpts of Tuesday's gay marriage case at high court
Excerpts from the arguments before the Supreme Court on Tuesday about California's Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage, from a transcript released by the Supreme Court: ___ On whether the case should be before them (Chief Justice John Roberts and...
Tags: Samuel A. Alito, Family, Justice and Rights, Arts and Culture, Elena Kagan
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Supreme Court hears case on federal benefits for gays
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the second of back-to-back gay marriage cases, the Supreme Court is turning to a constitutional challenge to the law that prevents legally married gay Americans from collecting federal benefits generally available to straight...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Family, Parties and Movements, Republican Party, Laws
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Gay rights: Weighing Prop. 8, religion and morality
Reader views on same-sex marriage have evolved along with broader public opinion. Over the years, the mix of opinions sent to letters@latimes.com has tilted more heavily in favor of granting gay couples the right to wed. Where there's some gray between...
Tags: Family, Justice and Rights, Abortion Issue, Social Issues, Religion and Belief
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For gay rights, a historic opportunity
It's hard to remember an initiative campaign that tore California in two as painfully as Proposition 8 did. The state might as well retire the number 8 when it comes to propositions; it will long be associated only with the 2008 measure that took the...
Tags: Family, Justice and Rights, Arts and Culture, Laws, Social Issues
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A gay marriage backlash? Not likely
Court decisions sometimes spark dramatic political backlashes. Brown vs. Board of Education, which struck down school segregation laws in 1954, temporarily retarded progressive racial reform in the South and advanced the political careers of racial...
Tags: Punishment, Family, Justice and Rights, Parties and Movements, Social Issues
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Prop. 8: 'I have done my part,' retired Judge Vaughn Walker says
SAN FRANCISCO -- Retired U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker, whose ruling on Proposition 8 led to Tuesday’s U.S. Supreme Court hearing, presided over the first federal trial on same-sex marriage. The tall, lanky, white-haired former judge is now...
Tags: Family, Litigation, Social Issues, Judges, Trials
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Prop. 8: Gay and lesbian families say they feel part of history
Alan Acosta, 60, has been with his partner, Tom Gratz, for 32 years. They were married in 2004 in San Francisco, a ceremony that felt "more like a political statement because it seemed like such a pipe dream that we would ever have marriage equality...
Tags: Family, U.S. Supreme Court, Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage
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Prop. 8: Gavin Newsom proud of helping start gay marriage case
Rep. Nancy Pelosi got Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom-- the former San Francisco mayor whose actions launched the litigation -- a seat in the courtroom Tuesday. “I don’t want to overstate it, but literally when I walked in, I had a feeling I had never...Tags: Family, Anthony Kennedy, Social Issues, Marriage, Gavin Newsom
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Marriage equality? Celebrities join Supreme Court Prop 8 debate
Pop2itThe issue of marriage quality is a hot topic among celebrities as the Supreme Court hears arguments in the case of California's Prop. 8, which bans gay marriage....
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