The twins originate from a single fertilised egg, so they are always identical and of the same sex.
One objection is simply that both would-be spouses are of the same sex.
In Belgium, by the end of the century no more than two-thirds of candidates on electoral lists may be of the same sex.
In fact, being in love is itself a sweet wonder, and being in love with someone of the same sex is even more wonderful.
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Some were of the same sex, including many in Washington, Maine and Maryland, where same-sex marriage became legal in November.
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That would be if you are married to someone of the same sex as you or a registered domestic partner in a community property state.
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And what you're seeing is, you know, much more homogenized neighborhoods where people of the same sex are living together and sense - tensions were down.
For many of us, the thought of matrimony between two members of the same sex requires an emotional and cultural leap that we find hard to make.
Peers of the same sex were also highlighted as a key cause of pressure on female pupils to look good by 83% of respondents and on male pupils by 54%.
Because many find it easier to understand others of the same sex or nationality, it helps to have employees from the same cultural background as your customers.
Whatever one thinks about marriage between people of the same sex, surely a man running as a business-friendly candidate would say whether he favors boycotts of privately owned businesses on the basis of the beliefs of their shareholders?
Whatever the Supreme Court ultimately decides about the constitutionality of Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act, the movement of same-sex marriage from the margins to the mainstream has been achieved.
They were compared with 84 same-sex couples in their friendship circle who didn't get civil unions, and with 55 heterosexual married couples in which one of the spouses was a sibling of one of the same-sex couples in a civil union.
Surveys have showed that the divide is both political and generational: The Left is, for the most part, in favour of the same-sex marriage law while the hard Right, and leaders of the French Catholics, Muslims and Jews oppose it.
In 1994, when president of the Association of Civil Rights in Israel, the lobby won a landmark Supreme Court case granting same-sex partners of company employees the same benefits as opposite-sex ones.
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Mr. Cuomo cast the deal as the capstone on a year of victories that included the legalization of same-sex marriage and the passage of a plan to raise tax revenue from high-income New Yorkers while lowering taxes on the middle class.
Until now, the State Department had withheld these benefits citing the Defense of Marriage Law, which restricts the recognition of same-sex marriages on the federal level.
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The decision, or a challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act, will likely bring the issue of same-sex marriage before the Supreme Court.
Regardless, Newsom may benefit from the visibility of having defended the rights of same-sex couples, says former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown.
Ahead of the service, the question of same-sex marriage jumped to the fore when an interview Welby gave to the BBC reignited the debate over the church's approach to issues of sexuality.
Earlier on Tuesday, he had written on his blog a critique of the same-sex marriage bill.
But the court need not base its decision in Windsor on the merits of the same-sex marriage question.
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Last time proponents of the same-sex marriage ban fell 12 votes short of getting the measure on the floor for full consideration.
Ministers will hear the findings of a report by a theological commission, appointed in 2011, to look at the issue of same-sex relationships and the ministry.
Another cause of discord in the worldwide Anglican communion has been the election of an openly gay bishop and the blessing of same-sex unions.
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Throughout much of the South, the number of same-sex couples living together increased in the 2010 census, especially in metropolitan areas.
The Archbishop of Canterbury the Most Reverend Justin Welby, who has in the past praised the quality of same-sex relationships, sees the Church's response to the issue as a challenge.
On Tuesday, however, he made clear that the case of Proposition 8, a 2008 California voter initiative that rescinded the marriage rights of same-sex couples in the state, left him conflicted.
The American Episcopal Church is intimately connected with the Church of England, which last week approved the advancement of male priests in same-sex committed relationships to the position of bishop.
Yet the Supreme Court has been solemnly assured by many scientific organizations, such as the American Psychological Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics, that the overwhelming weight of evidence indicates that same-sex couples are every bit the equal of opposite-sex parents in every relevant respect.
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