Sentences with phrase «wedding of a gay couple»

But others defended the East Harlem Democrat, who dropped the bombshell that she had «high - risk HPV» from Puerto Rico, where she officiated at the wedding of a gay couple over the weekend.

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A Christian - owned family bakery in Oregon is facing a fine of $ 135,000 for its refusal to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple and their owners» public discussion of the issue.

Last year, for example, the Justice Department filed an amicus brief for the Masterpiece Cakeshop Supreme Court case in support of the Christian baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple.

- how you can appeal to «religious liberty» to justify denying wedding cakes to gay and lesbian couples without challenging a candidate who wants to increase surveillance of Muslim neighborhoods, create a database of Muslim citizens, and ban Muslims from visiting the U.S., which would suggest the only «religious liberty» you want to protect is your own,

Just a brief note to start a conversation about the case of the baker, Jack Phillips, who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple who had been married in Massachusetts and wanted to celebrate with a party in Colorado.

The Daily Mail opposes it for as many of the right reasons as it is now possible for a secular paper to admit to: «This legislation,» it said, «which not even Stonewall, the most persistent gay rights group, was agitating for, is not just about allowing homosexual couples to have a wedding rather than a civil partnership.

And the Trumps» arrangement may even be more transparent than the couples who wed with all the faith and hope of having a loving, equal partnership only to be deceived later because hubs always knew he'd put his career above his wife's, or he knew he was gay but married anyway because it's what he thought he should do, or she's been hiding a huge amount of debt (as 1 in 5 of us do).

Former President Clinton, who said back in 2009 that he had «changed his mind» about his opposition to gay marriage, has issued a statement in support of the effort to pass a bill that would let same - sex couples legally wed in New York.

The bishop of the New York Diocese, which oversees churches in the Bronx, Manhattan and Staten Island, has decided not to wed gay couples in those boroughs.

A day after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the federal Defense of Marriage Act, gay couples inundated the Manhattan municipal building where marriage licenses are issued and weddings conducted.

The first gay couple to legally wed in New York will do so next to Niagara Falls in the wee hours of July 24.

NYC & Co., the city's tourism arm, and the City Clerk's office conducted a survey of more than 1,700 same - sex couples, finding that since the Marriage Equality Act went into effect in July 2011, 67 percent of gay couples held wedding receptions at restaurants, homes or catering halls in the five boroughs.

The lower body of New York's state legislature approved Governor Paterson's measure to allow gay couples to wed last night.

[69] In the guidelines, «gay couples who get married will be able to ask for special prayers in the Church of England after their wedding, the bishops have agreed.»

It's quite a scene at the Marriage Bureau on Centre Street, where hundreds of gay couples are tying the knot on the first day same sex weddings are permitted in the state.

Rather than dealing with the real - life quirks of gay weddings, or the more subtle forms of bigotry that actual queer couples deal with every day, writer - director Mary Agnes Donoghue puts her heroine through a series of blunt confrontations: with her conservative parents, with their even - more - conservative friends, and so on and so on.

Organized by Confetti magazine editor Vivienne Kaye - Wiley (Felicity Montagu) and owner Antoni Clark (Jimmy Carr), the race is quickly narrowed down to just three couples — the Hollywood musical theme of Matt and Sam (the wonderful Martin Freeman and Jessica Stevenson, respectively), tennis enthusiasts Josef and Isabelle (Stephen Mangan, Meredith MacNeill), and naturists Michael and Joanna (Robert Webb, Olivia Colman)-- and then placed in the hands of the country's most flamboyant wedding planners, gay couple Archie Heron (Vincent Franklin) and Gregory Hough (Jason Watkins).

In tangentially - related news, a few months back, there was the case of the baker who refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple and was subsequently sued, followed by that of the Denver bakery that refused the request of a man who wanted the proprietors to bake a Bible - shaped cake christened with anti-homosexual epithets.

Marking the huge success of civil partnerships and the 2nd anniversary of the Dáil and Seanad passing the civil partnership legislation, GLEN today celebrate civil partnerships with the GLEN «wedding bus» on Kildare Street!We warmly congratulate the hundreds of lesbian and gay couples who have...

And the Trumps» arrangement may even be more transparent than the couples who wed with all the faith and hope of having a loving, equal partnership only to be deceived later because hubs always knew he'd put his career above his wife's, or he knew he was gay but married anyway because it's what he thought he should do, or she's been hiding a huge amount of debt (as 1 in 5 of us do).