The top court in the Louisville-based Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has cleared a California minister of charges she violated the church constitution by performing marriage ceremonies for two lesbian couples.

Having tied the knot four times himself, controversial Indian-origin writer Salman Rushdie says he doesn’t think marriage is necessary. Attacking the institution of marriage, Rushdie said he did not believe in it and that women rushed to the altar only because they wanted to wear a ‘wedding dress’. The author of The Satanic Verses has been married four times, most recently to Padma Lakshmi, from …

Having tied the knot four times he, controversial Indian-origin writer Salman Rushdie says he doesn’t think marriage is “necessary”. Attacking the institution of marriage, Rushdie said he did not believe in it and that women rushed to the altar only because they wanted to wear a “wedding dress”.

Same-sex couples will continue to be denied marriage, adoption rights and IVF despite the government’s decision to remove discrimination against gays in a range of commonwealth laws.

Same-sex couples will continue to be denied marriage and IVF despite the government’s decision to remove discrimination against gays in commonwealth laws.

Having tied the knot four times himself, controversial Indian-origin writer Salman Rushdie says he doesn’t think marriage is “necessary”.

ALBANY - More than 2,000 gay-rights activists gathered at the state Capitol yesterday to urge the Legislature to legalize same-sex marriage.

The following is an excerpt of the testimony of Barbara DaFoe Whitehead, co-director of the National Marriage Project, before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Subcommittee on Children and Families. She spoke to congressmen in April 2004.

What positively impacts your health more; cholesterol levels or a healthy marriage? According to Dr. George Vaillant, psychologist and professor at Harvard Medical School, a good marriage at age 50 is a better predictor of healthy aging at age 80 than low cholesterol levels.

Some call it a necessary step to protect marriage; others charge it is a backward step toward restriction of rights. At issue is whether voters should get the chance to amend the state constitution to ban gay marriage.