The fate of the legal battle over California's ban on gay marriage no longer turns on the constitutional rights of same-sex couples to wed -- at least for now.
In the News
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September 5th, 2011
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September 5th, 2011Cynthia Daily and her partner used a sperm donor to conceive a baby seven years ago, and they hoped that one day their son would get to know some of his half siblings — an extended family of sorts for modern times.
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September 5th, 2011The amendment proposed by Dorries and Field to ensure independent counselling for women considering an abortion would be a triumph for common sense, and the Evangelical Alliance fully supports it.
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September 5th, 2011Many people of goodwill have shown genuine concern about the persecution of Christians in Northern Nigeria and the seeming helplessness or unwillingness of the relevant authorities to deal with the problem. Consequently people, both Christians and Muslims are dying from attacks and reprisal attacks. The cycle of violence now seems endless and a lasting solution to the problem seems utterly impossible.
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September 5th, 2011Prosecutors are choosing to take no action in cases of assisted suicide, The Times has learnt.
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September 5th, 2011Abortion charities could be misleading the public by inflating the proportion of clients who decide to keep their babies, new figures suggest.
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September 5th, 2011As the abortion debate heats up a little, the simmering arguments move to ad hominem boiling point. Nadine Dorries MP writes of Evan Harris’ ‘menacing’ involvement in the removal of No10 support from the Dorries/Field amendment to the Health and Social Care Bill:
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September 5th, 2011The British government has ignored and failed to prosecute people in dozens of assisted suicide cases after it changed its rules on prosecution following the British House of Lords siding with Debbie Purdy in her high-profile case.
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September 5th, 2011Dragged into the politicisation of identity, tolerance has become a form of 'polite etiquette', argues Frank Furedi in a new book
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September 5th, 2011Many who gaze across the Atlantic have long been amazed at the way in which the toxic issue of abortion fundamentally distorts the U.S. political agenda.