In October 2009, a Tangipahoa Parish justice of the peace refused to marry Beth Humphries to Terence McKay because she is white and he is black. That justice of the peace, a white man named Keith ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – A federal judge blocked a Mississippi law on religious objections to same-sex marriage moments before it was set to take effect Friday, ruling it unconstitutionally establishes ...

A federal judge has dismissed a challenge to a North Carolina law that allows magistrates to refuse to marry same-sex couples by citing religious beliefs. The judge in Asheville dismissed a lawsuit ...

Gov. Pat McCrory (R-N.C.) [p12]Updated: 9:30 p.m. EDT RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory vetoed Thursday a religious exemption bill that would allow some court officials to avoid gay ...

Over the weekend, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton suggested that local clerks with religious objections could opt-out of granting marriage licenses to gay couples in light of the Supreme Court’s ...

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Dear Eric: I am very much enjoying the second time around following a long and less than joyful first marriage. My problem is plans for burial. All of our children are terribly against our marriage ...

A solid majority of Americans now support equal treatment for same-sex couples despite religious objections, according to the State of the First Amendment survey released last week by the First ...

True love, they say, never runs smooth and they were forced to resort to the local magistrates for permission to marry after ...