The justices of the US Supreme Court have questioned the meaning of marriage and the government's role in defining it, as they weigh whether the state of California can ban same-sex nuptials.
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March 26th, 2013
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March 26th, 2013
The Supreme Court is suggesting it could find a way out of the case over California's ban on same-sex marriage without issuing a major national ruling on whether gays have a right to marry, an issue one justice said was newer than cellphones and the Internet.
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March 26th, 2013
The US is on the brink of a landmark moment for gay rights. This week the Supreme Court will hear argument on two key cases: one on the constitutionality of the 1996 defence of marriage act, the other seeking to overturn California's Proposition 8, which banned same-sex couples from getting married.
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March 26th, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court suggested Tuesday it could find a way out of the case over California's ban on same-sex marriage without issuing a major national ruling on whether gays have a right to marry, an issue one justice described as newer than cellphones and the Internet.
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March 26th, 2013
An American state has passed the country's strictest abortion law, ruling that no foetus may be terminated once a heartbeat has been detected in a move that sets up a legal challenge to the landmark "Roe v Wade" Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in the US in 1973.
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March 26th, 2013
North Dakota has banned abortion once a foetal heartbeat can be detected - as early as six weeks - in the most restrictive law of its kind in the US.
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March 26th, 2013
An Oxford college is in hot water for hosting a conference for a religious group with controversial views about homosexuality.
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March 26th, 2013
he General Medical Council has backed down on requiring doctors to provide 'gender reassignment' just as a lobby group has brought forward 98 patient complaints.
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March 26th, 2013
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March 26th, 2013
The family norm used to be a married couple with two children but a new YouGov survey underscores the increasingly flexible definitions of what constitutes a family today.