The New York State Court of Appeals is expected to issue a ruling in the big gay marriage lawsuit today. Will it be wedding bells, civil unions, or livin’ in sin? Stay tuned.
New York’s Highest Court to Rule on Gay Marriages [NY Times]

Dan Henninger of the Wall Street Journal went on Fox News to note that a woman in India married a snake last week and he took that moment to smugly wonder whether the slippery slope of gay marriage would lead to people wedding animals one day. With his infallible logic, Stephen Colbert responded to the […]

The federal marriage amendment might have failed in the Senate, but the religious right has other ways. Leaders in the anti-gay marriage movement recently met to discuss calling for a actual, honest to God, Constitutional Convention to ratify an amendment without Congress. They’d need three quarters of state legislatures to call a convention, and then […]

So much for freedom of speech in academia. Jeffrey Nielsen, a Mormon and professor of philosophy at Brigham Young University in Utah wrote an op-ed early this month for the Salt Lake Tribune expressing his opposition to the federal marriage amendment. A few days later, he was told his contract wasn’t being renewed because he’d […]

In a historic move last month, the Australia Capital Territory approved a domestic partnership law for gay couples, that carefully defined the unions as something other than marriage. Well that wasn’t good enough for the conservative Prime Minister John Howard, who invoked special powers to invalidate the law, leading one to suspect that any legal […]

As expected, the Senate vote on the constitutional gay marriage ban failed by 49-48, meaning it won’t even be formally considered as an amendment. It did, however, provide some illuminating hours of debate from various Republican senators including James Inhofe of Oklahoma who showed off a photo of his kids and grandkids and crowed, “I’m […]

Crooks and Liars has up a great clip of The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart taking apart conservative guru Bill Bennett over the subject of gay marriage. Stewart neatly reveals the right-wing chatter about “defending marriage” for what it really is: a fundamental belief that gay people are not worthy human beings.

There’s always time to pander. With the country going to hell in a handbasket, Congress will take time this week to vote on a constitutional marriage amendment. It will not pass, but it will help remind the conservative base that the Republicans are the only thing holding back the homosexual menace at a time when […]

If you hurry, you can catch Marriage Equality New York’s Wedding March across the Brooklyn Bridge for same-sex marriage rights. They start at Cadman Plaza in Brooklyn at 11 p.m. and march on over to Battery Park for a festival.

Conservative Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has finally confirmed that he’ll hold a vote on opening a debate about repealing Canada’s gay marriage law. He promised to revisit the issue during the campaign, but has been dithering ever since. Gay rights groups, though, are actually taunting Harper into pushing the issue, since they’re confident any […]