http://homoweddings.com When love is stronger than convention Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:52:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With same-sex marriage now legal in countries like Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands, Canada and South Africa, and many more countries accepting civil unions, domestic partnerships or registered partnerships, a whole new bridal industry is springing up to cater to the demands and wishes of gay and lesbian couples. Spotted in Barcelona: ... http://homoweddings.com/wedding-boutique-for-gay-men/ The first round of the elections for President of France has narrowed the field down to gay-friendly Segolene Royal and frontrunner Nicolas Sarkozy. The 53-year-old Ms Royal is the socialist party candidate for the presidency and would become France's first woman president if elected. Her manifesto demands equal rights for same-sex ... http://homoweddings.com/gay-friendly-candidate-in-final-vote-for-french-president/ Heritage Heights residents Bill Twibill and Casper Kranenburg say they plan to join in a civil union if New Hampshire law allows it. After 25 years together, Bill Twibill and Casper Kranenburg are linked by love, mutual respect and an inch-thick stack of documents that form a fragile facsimile of marriage ... http://homoweddings.com/senior-same-sex-couples-navigate-system-that-doesnt-recognize-them/ He is 60 years of age, an elder in a particular Rasta community where the brethren are, as he says, 'constantly seeking to understand themselves in the 'present dispensation', which he considers to be, less introspective and more in the need to define a strategy for social and economic survival ... http://homoweddings.com/the-rasta-view-on-homosexuality/ Blessings for people living in same-sex relationships triggered heated debate at a meeting last month of the main governing body of the Lutheran World Federation in the southern Swedish city of Lund. Divisions that have torn apart the Anglican Communion and created discord in other Christian denominations received an airing March ... http://homoweddings.com/disagreement-on-same-sex-relations-riles-lutheran-body/ The archbishop of Canterbury broke weeks of silence in Toronto this morning, announcing that he will meet in September with the U.S. Episcopal Church on the eve of the American branch of Anglicanism being expelled from the international communion over gay rights. Williams has been under pressure to meet with ... http://homoweddings.com/anglicans-to-meet-on-same-sex-issues/ Any day now, the Maryland Supreme Court may decide whether same-sex couples have a right to marry. After Massachusetts' highest court extended that right in 2003, many lawyers expected a cascade of lawsuits in other states. But resistance from conservative legal groups and the public has been stiffer than expected, forcing ... http://homoweddings.com/gay-marriage-advocates-switch-tactics/ Canadian gay rights activist Gerard Veldhoven is calling for churches in Amherst, Nova Scotia, to allow same-sex marriages. Veldhoven says that now that civil marriage is legal, religious institutions should follow suit, reports the Amherst Daily News. “The fact civil marriage ceremonies have now been legal in the whole of Canada ... http://homoweddings.com/canadian-activist-urges-nova-scotia-churches-to-allow-same-sex-marriage/ Opposition to homosexuality has long been marked by bad science. In the past, that usually meant bad psychology or even bad physiology. Today, the more common problem is bad social science, usually involving cherry-picked data about alarming social trends followed by breathtaking leaps of logic connecting these trends to same-sex ... http://homoweddings.com/blankenhorns-logic-doesnt-hang-together/ Gene Robinson, the Episcopal Church's sole openly gay bishop, added his voice to New Hampshire's civil unions debate, saying legalising same-sex unions doesn't threaten religion or families. Robinson testified at a state senate hearing on civil unions, which passed the house last week. He said he went to the legislature as ... http://homoweddings.com/gay-bishop-supports-same-sex-unions-in-us/