As we watch and listen and wait and think and hope with regard to all that's transpiring at the Supreme Court hearing on California's ban on gay marriage, people around the country and beyond are ...

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California and Colorado voted to repeal amendments that defined marriage as between a man and a woman, while Hawaii is on track to repeal its traditional definition of marriage, though it has not yet ...

David Fowler, a Chattanooga native, is president of the Family Action Council of Tennessee. For Tennesseans, the decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the Defense of Marriage Act and ...

Romantic norms appear more fluid now than ever before. Over the past few decades, cohabitation rates have nearly doubled, more children are being born outside of marriage and in recent months — ...

As Gov. Chris Gregoire is expected to approve a bill passed by Olympia lawmakers that would legalize gay marriage in Washington, opponents have promised to fight back. Stephen Pidgeon, an attorney and ...

Suddenly, California seems so long ago, so far away. When the Iowa Supreme Court ruled on Friday that gays can marry in the Hawkeye State, gay marriage became not just a coastal thing. Deep in the ...

We don't have a clear picture yet about how the pandemic has impacted marriages, but it has given people a chance to reassess their situation. “We're placed in a situation where you're spending, many ...

The face that was about to end 20-something years of oneness was just feet away, and getting closer. On my dad’s arm I was walking toward the man who would vow to be my partner through all the twists ...