More than 250,000 people took to the streets in Paris on Sunday to express their opposition to "anti-family" proposals in France, including plans to legalise medical procedures that will allow same-sex couples to have children.
The US Supreme Court this week declined to review federal court appeals from five states seeking to uphold the definition of marriage as between one man and one woman.
Dr Peter Saunders of the Christian Medical Fellowship has challenged the claim made by singer-songwriter, Vicky Beeching, that her plan to marry a woman does not affect her self-identifying as an evangelical Christian.