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OregonLive.com
February 26, 2018
He is also a proponent of gay marriage and marijuana decriminalization, he said. Should Gibson clinch the Republican nomination, he would still have an uphill battle against Cantwell. The Democratic incumbent has $4 million in the bank, campaign finance figures show. In 2012, she coasted to re-electionÃÂ ...
KOIN.com
February 14, 2018
Same-sex marriage was also an obstacle to the two parties - it's illegal in Northern Ireland, but legal in the rest of the United Kingdom and in Ireland. Sinn Fein wants to see it introduced in Northern Ireland, while the DUP does not. The surprise breakdown in talks came just two days after the British and IrishÃÂ ...
OregonLive.com
February 12, 2018
In April 2014, after a judge in Florida lifted the state's ban on same-sex marriage, Archbishop Thomas Wenski, who oversees Miami's Catholic ... of the Florida House, told Politico that many "may be surprised to learn that you can be fired from your employment not just because of gay marriage but alsoÃÂ ...
OregonLive.com
February 7, 2018
The results of the Oregon foster-care system audit are in, and they are more horrific than anyone could imagine - unless you work in or with foster care. ... Ben West, adopted their son through foster care and were plaintiffs in a lawsuit that successfully challenged Oregon's ban on same-sex marriage.
KOIN.com
January 31, 2018
Russia does not recognize same-sex marriage and has a law banning the dissemination of gay "propaganda" to minors, so the couple's claim that their marriage was officially registered has caused an uproar. They got married in Denmark and submitted their passports to a registrar's office, where a clerkÃÂ ...
OregonLive.com
January 31, 2018
It was in 2014 and he was explaining his landmark ruling striking down Oregon's same-sex marriage ban. He worked first as a public defender, then later as a Multnomah County Circuit Court judge. His latest position is a lifetime appointment. Now in his mid 50s, McShane said it's not lost on him that he hasÃÂ ...
Brides.com
January 30, 2018
... [gay marriage] wasn't legal in the state that we were stationed in. Our commands let us travel to the closest state in which same-sex marriages were allowed, so we had to travel to North Carolina with only three days notice (since they had passed same-sex marriage when we originally had planned to getÃÂ ...
Willamette Week
January 30, 2018
Kitzhaber ended the prohibition on gay marriage in Oregon. McShane, who was appointed to the federal bench in 2012 by President Barack Obama, is the state's only openly gay federal judge. State court judges, which McShane was in Multnomah County for 12 years before Obama promoted him,ÃÂ ...
OPB News
January 11, 2018
Parrish has never been afraid to contradict members of her party. Not long after she was elected to serve a district that includes West Linn and Tualatin, she broke ranks with her fellow state Republicans and supported same-sex marriage in 2014. For the past three years, she hasn't caucused with her party.
OPB News
January 8, 2018
The Bundys Go Free In Nevada — And Their Dismissal Reverberates Across Oregon .... Abortion is going to stop, same-sex marriage is going to stop. ... In Oregon, several lesser-known defendants charged in the Malheur wildlife refuge occupation pleaded guilty, and others were found guilty at a trial inÃÂ ...
City Watch
January 4, 2018
RELIGION RIGHTS-An Oregon state appeals court on Thursday let stand $135,000 in damages levied against the owners of a Portland-area bakery for discrimination after they refused on ... The Bowman-Cryers were married in 2014 after a federal judge struck down Oregon's same-sex marriage ban.
BP News
January 2, 2018
The three-judge panel upheld a decision by the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) that found the Kleins' refusal to design and bake a cake for a lesbian couple's ... Bowman and Cryer had a commitment ceremony in 2013 and a wedding in 2014 after same-sex marriage became legal in Oregon.
KOIN.com
December 31, 1999
Yet, during the 2012 White House campaign, with Graham mostly confined to his North Carolina home, he all but endorsed Republican Mitt Romney. And the evangelist's ministry took out full-page ads in support of a ballot measure that would ban gay marriage. Some critics on social media faulted GrahamÃÂ ...
The Hutchinson News
December 17, 2017
Multiple mainstream organizations warned that if same-sex marriage was codified it would open up a host of secondary issues. It was called the “collision course” between religious liberty and gay marriage. Lots of collateral damage was predicted. These predications have come to pass. The Stutzman caseÃÂ ...
HuffPost
December 10, 2017
According to the court majority, refusal of some states to recognize “gay marriage” violated both the Due Process and Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Although it was a narrow 5–4 decision, same-sex marriage is now the law everywhere in the United States. However, that has notÃÂ ...
myCentralOregon.com
December 7, 2017
iStock/Thinkstock(SYDNEY, Australia) — Marriage equality is now a reality in Australia. The country's parliament voted on Thursday to allow same-sex marriage in the commonwealth country. The House of Representatives passed the bill to change the definition of marriage from solely between a man andÃÂ ...
Vox
December 6, 2017
Hodges, announcing the constitutional right to same-sex marriage, Justice Anthony Kennedy and the four liberals opened their opinion by declaring, “The ... So Oregon could apply its “across-the-board criminal prohibition” to ban Native Americans from using peyote as their sacrament in worship services.
TIME
December 4, 2017
Edith Windsor overturned a key section of the Defense of Marriage Act. Kris Perry struck down California's same-sex marriage ban. Jim Obergefell made gay marriage legal nationwide. “A loss at the Supreme Court could open the door to many forms of discrimination that have long been outlawed in ourÃÂ ...
myCentralOregon.com
December 4, 2017
Twitter/@AboutTheHouse(SYDNEY, Australia) — Australian lawmaker Tim Wilson proposed to his partner of seven years today while debating a same-sex marriage bill in the House of Representatives. After speaking at length about growing up gay in Australia, Wilson, a member of the Liberal Party, askedÃÂ ...
Oregon Faith Report
December 1, 2017
Now that a majority of the public and much of corporate America support gay marriage, anti-gay holdouts pay a price for speaking and acting on their beliefs. Fair-minded people ought to concede this even if we think conservative Christians are completely wrong on this issue. To the larger point, it would beÃÂ ...
Queen Anne and Mangolia News
November 30, 2017
This “breakaway republic” could include part or all of Washington, Oregon, northern California, and/or southwest British Columbia. To an outsider, that might sound not very different ... We could pass initiatives for gay marriage and elgal cannabis in our state. But when two Black Lives Matter activists took ...
TVNZ
November 30, 2017
Mr Williamson, who delivered a memorable speech in favour of same-sex marriage four years ago, has unwittingly shot to prominence in the Asian country ... "The thing I love to tell anyone that'll listen about New Zealand is that we're an incredibly tolerant society -we basically passed gay marriage and then went off and had ...
GetReligion (blog)
November 30, 2017
Other local media, such as Oregon Public Broadcasting classifies the same-sex marriage refusal, and the fact that Vance is an evangelical Christian, ... could at least entertain the idea that religious liberty is the ultimate issue here and had Vance not opposed gay marriage, none of this would be happening.
Sacramento Bee
November 29, 2017
The owner, Jack Phillips, refused to bake the cake, saying that gay marriage violated his religious beliefs. Colorado law, like that in California and ... Smith (1990), involved Native Americans who sought to use peyote in their religious observances in violation of Oregon state law. The Supreme Court, in an ...
Colorado Springs Independent
November 29, 2017
On Nov. 20, about 50 people gathered at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church to learn about the new battle plan in the fight for universal health care in America. The event was put on by the local chapter of the Colorado Foundation for Universal Health Care, and the speaker was T.R. Reid, an author and ...
myCentralOregon.com
November 28, 2017
Moore decried the “immorality of our time” and emphasized his opposition to transgender rights, same-sex marriage and abortion. He also compared the Roe v. Wade decision to the Supreme Court's decision in the infamous Dred Scott case. “As far as abortion, I will not fund Planned Parenthood. And I will ...
The Register-Guard
November 27, 2017
Over a period of years, this is what happened with the gay marriage movement. A type of inclusion that initially appeared radical and frightening became an obvious form of fairness to a majority of Americans. Politicians, including President Obama, were left catching up to the new social consensus.
KNPR
November 25, 2017
Haque is co-director of Basic Rights Oregon, an LGBTQ advocacy group ... Court's 2015 ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
The Guardian
November 23, 2017
... with the other conscience issue of the moment – same-sex marriage. .... Victoria's scheme is unique but is modelled on Oregon, which has ...
Church Militant
November 17, 2017
Air Force Colonel Punished for Refusing to Promote Gay Marriage ... for refusing to acknowledge an airman's same-sex marriage. .... Let California, Oregon, Washington, New York and the rest of the east coast split off.
OregonLive.com
November 10, 2017
... of the state judicial building, and later for urging state probate judges to defy the U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized gay marriage.
KTVQ Billings News
November 9, 2017
May 17, 2004 - The first legal same-sex marriage in the United States ... November 9, 2016 - Kate Brown is sworn in as governor of Oregon, ...
Meriden Record-Journal
November 2, 2017
... of the Ryder Cup Series on Nov.2, 1947 at Portland, Oregon. .... a leading opponent of the drive for same-sex marriage _ also stepped aside ...
Portland Business Journal
November 2, 2017
She's been called “the most divisive member of the Oregon ... She came out in favor of same-sex marriage in 2014 and was later tossed from ...
Elite Daily
October 26, 2017
Same-sex marriage and the legalization marijuana is among many ... Colorado, Washington, and Oregon are among the growing number of ...
SBS
October 19, 2017
As Australia decides whether to legalise same-sex marriage, the US version ... "when 'gay marriage' will no longer exist, and it will simply be 'marriage'". ... was awarded US$135,000 ($171,000) in damages after the Oregon ...
OregonLive.com
October 13, 2017
Though he avoided some hot-button social issues like same-sex marriage and abortion, he vowed his support for Israel, an important issue for ...
Chicago Tribune
October 13, 2017
... federal recognition of same-sex marriage, and Washington attorney ... in the federal complaint was inspired in part by an Oregon case from ...
OregonLive.com
October 13, 2017
Ben West (center) and Paul Rummell (right) were plaintiffs in the Oregon case that declared a ban on gay marriage unconstitutional.( Stephanie ...
East Oregonian
October 11, 2017
... Vice President Mike Pence, have been vocal opponents of gay marriage, ... pflag.pendleton.or@gmail.com or the PFLAG Pendleton Oregon ...
myCentralOregon.com
October 11, 2017
In 2014, eight men were sentenced to prison for appearing in a video that allegedly showed a gay marriage, and 26 men were detained at a ...
New York Magazine
October 11, 2017
... senators from Oregon objecting to another nominee from their state, ... abortion and same-sex marriage, and allowing the expansion of the ...
OregonLive.com
October 10, 2017
In an age when we have cast off most restraints -- from restrictions on abortion, to sanctioning same-sex marriage, to normalizing the use of ...
OregonLive.com
October 8, 2017
Kitzhaber that overturned Oregon's ban on same-sex marriage. We know Richardson, like many people of an older generation with ...
Oregon Faith Report
October 2, 2017
Dennis Richardson, Oregon's sole Republican in a statewide office, has ... in Oregon law, such as the legalization of same-sex marriage, does ...
OregonLive.com
September 29, 2017
8, 2016, file photo, Dennis Richardson, the Oregon Republican ... in Oregon law, such as the legalization of same-sex marriage, does not shift ...
OregonLive.com
September 28, 2017
Oregon Secretary of State Dennis Richardson's statement to an Oregon ... Two years earlier, he characterized same-sex marriage as being ...
OPB News
September 27, 2017
When Dennis Richardson found his Mormon faith, he said it was like tasting salt: impossible to describe to someone who's never experienced it ...
Willamette Week
August 16, 2017
Now that same-sex marriage is legal, why does the city of Portland continue ... moot in 2015, when gay marriage became legal nationwide as part of the ... Oregon's 2007 domestic-partnership law—which, unlike most others, ...
The Register-Guard
December 31, 1999
Ultimately the race was about Moore, from the allegations of misconduct to his controversial stints as Alabama Supreme Court chief justice, where both terms ended in his removal for defying federal law, including his refusal to acknowledge the U.S. Supreme Court's decision legalizing same-sex marriage.
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