Slovenia to Allow Gay Marriage?

The government intends to amend legislation to give same-sex partnership equal rights, Labour, Family and Social Affairs Minister Ivan Svetlik announced after the government session on Thursday.

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Stand for Marriage in Maine Launches Website to Fight Overturn of Gay Marriage Law

Stand for Marriage Maine, a broad-based coalition formed to pass a Peoples' Veto to overturn the recent gay marriage law, announced the launch of their Web site today.

The Web site serves as the campaign's online headquarters for supporters of traditional marriage to receive petitions, send in their donations, get the latest information about the campaign, and learn how to volunteer for the People's Veto effort.

"The response of Mainers wanting to help qualify the Peoples' Veto is overwhelming, and this new Web site gives our supporters another opportunity to get involved with this very important issue," said Marc Mutty of Stand for Marriage Maine. "Our coalition will use the Web site to educate people about the importance of restoring traditional marriage."

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Wisconsin Family Council Plans Legal Challenge to Wisconsin's New Domestic Partner Law

There could be a legal challenge to the state's domestic partner registry. As part of the recently signed state budget, county clerks will soon have to offer a domestic partner registry to same sex couples around Wisconsin.

Not so fast says Julaine Appling of the Wisconsin Family Council. "Our lawyers have been looking at this domestic partnership registry since the day it was introduced," Appling. "Our lawyers are looking right now at what a legal challenge would look like."

Appling claims the budget language violates the 2006 Constitutional Amendment banning gay marriage and any similar "union" sanctioned by the state. But Scott Ross with One Wisconsin Now says Appling and other proponents claimed the amendment would not ban what the state is now doing.

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Gay Marriage Rally Held in Bloomington, Indiana

Couples in wedding dresses and suits filed through the Monroe County Courthouse Thursday to protest the denial of marriage licenses to same-sex partners.

The peaceful demonstration took place throughout the day in downtown Bloomington, with protesters holding signs in support of marriage equality, 6News' Ben Morriston reported.

Renee Reed and Stephanie Burks were two of the people applying for a marriage license, but they were told that same-sex marriages are not allowed in Indiana.

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PFLAG to March in Temecula, California Fourth of July Parade

For the first time ever, a group dedicated to supporting gays, lesbians and transgendered people will march in Temecula's Fourth of July parade.

The participation by PFLAG -- Parents, Families, & Friends of Lesbians and Gays -- in the city-organized parade is notable given the region's reputation as a bastion of conservative values.

In 1995, dozens of protesters picketed a Temecula theater showing the NC-17 rated movie "Showgirls." And last November, two-thirds of Temecula voters supported Prop. 8, which banned gay marriage in California.

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More Couples, Mostly Lesbian, Getting Married in Eastern Iowa

Two months after the Iowa Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage, the number of applications is climbing in parts of eastern Iowa.

County recorders say 100 same-sex marriage applications have been issued in Johnson County and another 71 in Linn County. Recorders say almost 75 percent of the applicants are women.

Recorders say in about 30 percent of applications, both partners are from out of state.

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Gay Louisiana Couple Sues for Marriage License

A Louisiana couple has filed a lawsuit after being turned away by officials at the Orleans Parish marriage license office on April 2 because they were both men. The couple is saying the New Orleans’ constitutional amendment against gay marriage violates their constitutional rights under the U.S. Constitution.

Kristoffer Bonilla and John Thomas want a federal judge to rule that they have a right to marry under the U.S. Constitution and international law, despite a 2004 amendment defining marriage in the state as between “one man and one woman.” That amendment was overwhelmingly approved by voters.

“We just want a marriage license,” said Bonilla, a law school graduate who is not yet a practicing lawyer. “The people at the office were extremely nice. The cab driver who took us asked to be invited to the wedding.”

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Jackass's Steve-O Joins NoH8, Puckers Up for Gay Marriage

Too bad Gilles Marini wasn't around when Steve-O had his portrait taken for the NO H8 organization. We're sure the former Jackass stuntman would have tried to lock lips with his fellow Dancing With the Stars alum.

"If I could walk down the aisle with any male, it would be Gilles," the Steve-O tells us. "He's gorgeous in every sense of the word. He's an absolute cockthrob, and he's a really great guy."

So, who is Steve-O kinda puckering up to in the pic?

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Republican Resolution in Oklahoma Blames The Gays for The Recession

A resolution introduced in the Oklahoma legislature by GOP State Rep. Sally Kern blames the nation's economic woes on gay pride celebrations, lack of public prayer, abortion and "debauchery."

Dr. Ed Buckner, president of American Atheists, said that the bizarre claim "betrays not only intellectual bankruptcy, but insults the intelligence of voters in Oklahoma and the rest of the country who want real solutions to the serious economic difficulties that face our nation. The resolution offered is not only counter-productive, it severely misquotes key founding fathers. Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, and probably Washington as well would be appalled at being falsely claimed by these anti-American yahoos."

The "Oklahoma Citizen's Proclamation for Morality" singles out President Obama for recognizing June as LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual and Transgendered) Pride Month, and charges that America is economic peril because of "abortion, pornography, same-sex marriage, sex trafficking, divorce, illegitimate births, child abuse and many other forms of debauchery."

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First Federal Hearing on Prop 8 Gay Marriage Lawsuit is Today

The first hearing on the federal case brought by The American Foundation for Equal Rights, lead by powerhouse attorneys Ted Olson and David Boies, is tomorrow, July 2nd, and the two attorneys have requested an injunction which would immediately allow same-sex marriages to resume in California until the Prop 8 issue is settled.

The two attorneys argue that Prop 8 violates the U.S. Constitution's guarantees of equal protection and due process because it relegates same-sex partners to domestic partners instead of granting them full equal rights. The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court in Northen California on behalf of two same-sex couples.

The American Foundation for Equal Rights has some high-profile board members, including director Rob Reiner, Chad Griffin, Oscar-winner Dustin Lance Black, Bruce Cohen, Kristina Schake, and Michele Singer Reiner.

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