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 ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – Alabama’s chief justice built his career on defiance: In 2003, Roy Moore was removed from the bench for defying a federal court order to remove a boulder-sized Ten Commandments ...

The attorney representing the plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging a North Carolina law that allows magistrates to refuse to perform gay marriages based on their religious beliefs says the measure ...

JACKSON, Miss. – New court action has created a slight delay for a Mississippi law that, barring an intervention from the U.S. Supreme Court, will let government workers and business people cite their ...

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 ...

VALLETTA, Malta — The predominantly Roman Catholic island nation of Malta is set to legalize gay marriage, joining much of Western Europe by replacing the traditional "you are now husband and wife" ...

About 2 percent of North Carolina's magistrates have officially recused themselves from performing marriages since the legislature passed a law last month responding to gay marriages becoming legal in ...

The parliament of Malta, an officially Catholic country, approved marriage equality legislation with a single dissenting vote. The lone dissenter bucked his Nationalist Party’s leadership, reports AP: ...

The argument to wait on the 5 Circuit before issuing same-sex coupes marriage licenses that was cited by Shaw is also preventing same-sex couples from receiving marriage licenses in Orleans Parish.

The Supreme Court on Monday denied a request from a Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples based on her religious objections. {mosads}Rowan County Clerk Kim ...