"As people have grown up with people having the right to marry the generational momentum has been very, very strong, " said Evan Wolfson, president of Freedom to Marry, a gay rights organization.
For the Supreme Court to place the right to marry in the hands of voters in each state is for the Supreme Court to implicitly endorse tyranny of the majority.
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"The object of California's establishment of the legal relationship of domestic partnership is to grant committed same-sex couples rights equivalent to those accorded a married couple. but Proposition 8, by depriving same-sex couples of the right to marry, denies them the dignity, respect, and stature accorded similarly situated opposite-sex couples under state law, " the court brief said.
When he spoke of winning the battle, he probably did not have in mind gaining the right to join the military and marry in church.
New York's highest court is considering whether gays and lesbians have the right to marry.
Last year, assembly members rejected a proposal that same-sex couples should have the right to marry.
In Holland, gay and lesbian couples have had the right to marry since April 2001.
Justice Sotomayor asked why California had an interest in denying gay couples the right to marry.
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She said that while 16-year-olds have the right to marry, few would take that opportunity.
Twenty-eight per cent support civil unions and 26% believe the right to marry should be extended to all.
There, the justices decided that the state had no rational basis for denying same sex couples the right to marry.
Extending the right to marry and adopt to same-sex couples was one of President Francois Hollande's electoral pledges in campaigning this year.
In those states where same-sex couples had previously won the right to marry, it was because of action by legislators or judges.
Many supporters said it was most upsetting to have the right to marry yanked away from them after last year's court ruling.
Extending the right to marry and adopt to same-sex couples was one of President Francois Hollande's electoral pledges in campaigning last year.
Extending the right to marry and adopt to same-sex couples in France was one of President Francois Hollande's electoral pledges in campaigning last year.
The report quotes a 2011 public performance survey in which 53% of respondents agreed that gay or lesbian couples should have the right to marry.
Mike Gravel and Congressman Dennis Kucinich, of Ohio, had a big advantage with the studio audience, because they are the only candidates who believe that gay and lesbian couples should have the right to marry.
Iowa is the only other state that allows same-sex marriages, after the Iowa state Supreme Court ruled unanimously on April 3 that it is illegal to discriminate against same-sex couples by denying them the right to marry.
Although we acknowledge that the legislature may raise this fee in the future, we decline to speculate regarding how high the legislature could raise the fee before it would constitute a significant impediment to the right to marry.
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Finding the right man to marry is another.
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Former President Bill Clinton, who signed the marriage law into effect 17 years ago, said this month he now backs the right of homosexuals to marry.
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Ultimately, the acceptance of the gay community and the right of gays to marry will not be achieved through violent means, physical and verbal, but through peaceful and honest negotiations.
The Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples in the state have a right to marry.
Assuming a state with a gay majority, would defenders of what is presumed to be traditional marriage smile on its citizens voting away the right of heterosexual couples to marry?
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In 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court found the idea of a legal right of same-sex couples to marry so outlandish that it dismissed a Minnesota case presenting the issue without bothering to write an opinion.
The women are of the era when the only serious career offering was a husband and children, and in the novel all of them marry, except for a grammar-school teacher who is unable to find the right man and another woman who ends up a bit of a floozy.
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Mr Obama first voiced support for the right of same-sex couples to marry in May.
In Hawaii, the state's highest court used the ERA to uphold the right of same-sex couples to marry.
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