Male and female recruits were moved into adjoining rooms housing up to eight soldiers, all the same sex.
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.
Terence Kindlon is one of the lawyers for the same sex couples.
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.
It could invalidate some unions involving an intersex partner, but also allow a genetic male and female to marry even if they look as if they belong to the same sex.
While a staid sedan may not have the same sex appeal as an open-top convertible, the market will reward a vintage automobile in top-notch condition, like the car sold at Cowan's.
Advocates for the same sex couples tried to make a very simple case that the state's 97-year old marriage law, which refers to husband and wife, doesn't live up to modern standards of equal protection under the law.
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?
Victims are victims, and, if you have been battered, stalked or otherwise threatened with violence, you should not be turned away by a shelter or denied the assistance you need merely because the aggressor is the same sex as you or because you are transgender.
He spoke before the Commons approved same-sex marriage in England and Wales by voting for the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill, by a majority of 225.
Critical, he said, are the same-sex marriage hearings in the Supreme Court in late March.
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Conservative blogger Rod Dreher, writing on BeliefNet.com, a Web site that covers spirituality and religion, said the same-sex marriage rulings show the Democratic process at work.
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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.
And the same-sex marriage bill being examined by the Congress faces strong opposition from religious and conservative lawmakers.
In America, the same-sex unions were often seen as the sinful problem, as the Christian banners, "Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve" proclaimed around the country.
The California couples, Kris Perry and Sandy Stier of Berkeley and Paul Katami and Jeff Zarrillo of Burbank, filed their federal lawsuit in May 2009 to overturn the same-sex marriage ban that voters approved the previous November.
Last week the court said that same sex couples deserve the same legal and financial benefits that heterosexual couples receive.
Obama's decision to openly endorse same-sex marriage won plaudits from campaigners worldwide who have been pushing for more liberal laws since the first same-sex couples walked down the aisle in the Netherlands in 2001.
The same-sex marriage measure, they said, would treat homosexual and heterosexual relationships equally before the law.
The "same sex marriage in which parties hereto participated is not valid pursuant to Maryland law, " the judge said.
In France, the contentious debate over the same-sex marriage bill has coincided with a spike in reported incidents of homophobic abuse, the gay rights group SOS Homophobie told BFM-TV last week.
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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