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Source: Los Angeles Times , Dallas Morning News Scores of United Methodist Church ministers in California are putting their careers on the line in an open revolt against religious edicts that forbid them to conduct weddings for gay and lesbian couples, Los Angeles Times reports. The pastors could lose...

Source: Salt Lake Tribune , Deseret News On the 39th anniversary of New York City's Stonewall Riots, which arguably launched the gay rights movement, their church is asking California Mormons to support a proposed constitutional amendment that would recognize only marriages between a man and a woman...

Source: Marin Independent Journal , Associated Press , San Diego Union Tribune Sara Taylor and Sherrie Holmes lined up along with other eager couples at the Marin County clerk's office Tuesday and got their license after 18 years together, but they waited until yesterday to get married Marin County...

Source: Washington Post , Christian Post , San Jose Mercury News CA marriage case Lesbian and gay couples will be able to get marriage licenses starting Tuesday from their local county clerk -- Monday evening in a few places -- but that doesn't mean they'll be able to formalize the union with...

Source: Newsday , Long Island Catholic , NY1 , Catskill News NY marriage rulings Calling him "just plain wrong," Bishop William Murphy has blasted Gov. David A. Paterson for ordering state agencies to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions, Newsday reports. In a column...

Source: Concord Monitor , Manchester Union-Leader , Reuters V. Gene Robinson, the Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire, was united in a civil union ceremony with longtime partner Mark Andrew yesterday afternoon at St. Paul's Church in Concord. Attorney Ronna Wise, a justice of the peace, performed the...

Source: " href="http://blog.mlive.com/grpress/2008/04/aquinas_cancels_gayrights_spea.html" mce_href="http://blog.mlive.com/grpress/2008/04/aquinas_cancels_gayrights_spea.html">Grand Rapids Press , The Herald of ASU , WZZM TV News GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- A Catholic college named...

Source: Pink News , BBC News Gay activists in Greece find that they have, at least temporarily, become strange political bedfellows with the Greek Orthodox Church in opposing a draft parliamentary bill that would allow unmarried couples to make their relationship legally binding, by signing a simple...

Source: This Is Oxfordshire THE Unitarian congregation at Oxford's Harris-Manchester College is calling for gay couples to be allowed to marry in church. More than 300 gay couples have 'married' in the county since civil partnerships became legal on December 5, 2005. But, although they are...

Source: Guardian and PinkNews One of England's most senior bishops has argued that the Bible sanctions same-sex relationships, using the bonds between Jesus and John the disciple, and David and Jonathan as examples. The Bishop of Liverpool, the Right Rev James Jones, a conservative evangelical, expressed...