Marriage Law Requirements by State
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Marriage Laws > Marriage License Requirements > United States
A marriage performed in another jurisdiction -- even overseas -- is usually valid in any state as long as the marriage was legal in the ...
site: http://www.usmarriagelaws.com/

State Marriage Statutes
Marriage Laws of the Fifty States, District of Columbia and Puerto Rico ... This table links to the marriage laws of the states and attempts ...
site: http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/Table_Marriage.htm

Legal Definition of Marriage
The Legal Term * Marriage * Defined & Explained ... The 'Lectric Law Library's Lexicon On * Marriage ...
site: http://www.lectlaw.com/def2/m087.htm

Freedom To Marry
There are two types of legal marriage ? those performed by clergy, and those performed by judges or justices of the peace ? this latter ...
site: http://www.freedomtomarry.org/

Equal Marriage for Same Sex Couples
... our legal Canadian marriage in the UK," report same-sex marriage advocates Sue Wilkinson and Celia Kitzinger.
site: http://www.samesexmarriage.ca/

BBC NEWS | England | North Yorkshire | Lesbians lose legal marriage ...
A lesbian couple fail in their High Court bid to have their marriage given full legal status in the UK.
site: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/5230708.stm

Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders
New England-based legal group taking the lead on same-sex marriage efforts in Vermont...
site: http://www.glad.org/

Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto
Toronto church conducting what is claimed to be the first legal same-sex marriage in Canada.
site: http://www.mcctoronto.com/

Partners Task Force for Gay & Lesbian Couples
A national resource supporting the diverse community of committed gay and lesbian partners through a variety of media. Contains a wealth of ...
site: http://www.buddybuddy.com/toc.html

Same-sex Marriage: The Moral And Legal Debate, 2d ed
HQ1034 2004-016580 1-59102-274-6 Same-sex marriage; the moral and legal debate, 2d ed. Title main entry. Ed. by Robert M. Baird and Stuart E.... (Continue Reading)

Picking their court battles: it's taken on the Boy Scouts, eliminated sodomy laws, and won victories for students. Now Lambda Legal has its sights on marriage.
Kevin Cathcart wants every gay and lesbian person to learn the value of patience. We can't get discouraged, he says, just because marriage equality and parental rights for LGBT people are under all... (Continue Reading)

Boston legal eagle: the country's most powerful lawyer in the marriage equality fight is taking her case to other states—and trying to avoid the spotlight
As the debate over same-sex unions engulfed the country this summer, Mary Bonauto stood before reporters and cameras to announce that her group--Gay ...... (Continue Reading)

The tipping point: beginning May 17 in Massachusetts, gay and lesbian couples will be able to obtain fully legal marriage licenses for the first time in
In just a few months Wilfred Labiosa 32, and John Barter, 36, have settled in among their straight neighbors in the Boston area. Like many committed ...... (Continue Reading)

Marriage's bloody backlash: legal victories and the movement to legalize gay marriage have meant an increase in gay bashing
On February 12, 2004--the day San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom ordered his city to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples--Ken Saragosa walked out of an Orange County, Calif., gay bar and was... (Continue Reading)

Legal alternative to redefining marriage
TORONTO -- If the Supreme Court of Canada advises Parliament that the man-woman definition of marriage is incompatible with the legal equality requirements ...... (Continue Reading)

Our wedding album: the images of May 17, from towns across Massachusetts, express emotions no words could capture, as overjoyed gay and lesbian couples
Get me to the church on time How same-sex marriage came to the state of Massachusetts 4.11.2001 In Boston seven same sex couples sue to challenge ...... (Continue Reading)

Marriage amendment dead—for now
A CONSTITUTIONAL amendment to outlaw same-sex marriage died in the Senate this month despite intense pressure from President Bush, prominent religious ...... (Continue Reading)

Belgium says "I do": the country becomes only the second in the world to grant legal recognition to same-sex marriage - Marriage
Once again, one of the world's smallest countries is taking the biggest steps in expanding the rights of gay people. This time it's Belgium--passing ...... (Continue Reading)

Marriage as a religious and a legal concept - women after the Reformation
It may be surprising when, in my contribution to the debate about women after the Reformation, I focus on the institution of marriage or, to be more ...... (Continue Reading)