A fast food chain has been banned from donating meals to a high school fundraising event in California because of its support for marriage as the life-long union of one man and one woman.
The first Church of England clergyman to enter into a same sex 'marriage', Jeremy Pemberton, is taking legal action against the CofE after he was blocked from officiating at services and taking a new job as a hospital chaplain.
Last Wednesday, a federal ruling by a judge in Louisiana upheld the right of the state to defend the traditional view of marriage as the exclusive union of one man and one woman.