same-sex marriage

Questions swirled Thursday about the origins of Pope Francis’ bombshell comments endorsing same-sex civil unions, with all evidence suggesting he made them in a 2019 interview that was never broadcast in its entirety.

In new documentary “Francesco,” Pope Francis endorsed permitting civil unions for same-sex couples, the first time he has publicly addressed the issue since becoming pope in 2013.

The Supreme Court is leaving in place a decision that allowed a lawsuit to move forward against a Kentucky clerk who was jailed in 2015 after refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples

The Hallmark Channel, reversing what it called a “wrong decision,” said Sunday it will reinstate same-sex marriage commercials that it had pulled following a complaint from a conservative group. The earlier decision by Crown Media, Hallmark’s parent company, to pull several ads for the wedding planning site Zola featuring two brides kissing at the altar had caused a storm...

Under pressure from a conservative advocacy group, The Hallmark Channel has pulled ads for a wedding-planning website that featured two brides kissing at the altar. The family-friendly network, which is in the midst of its heavily watched holiday programming, removed the ads because the controversy was a distraction, a spokesperson said in an interview Saturday. “The debate surrounding these commercials on...

Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner turned some heads over the weekend after he officiated a same-sex marriage ceremony in Chicago.

Niki Quasney, whose desire to have her same-sex marriage recognized by Indiana before she died helped galvanize efforts to overturn the state’s gay marriage ban, has died at 38.

Florida’s ban on same-sex marriage ended statewide at midnight. But Miami-Dade County got a jump on the rest of the state when a judge lifted a stay that allowed same-sex marriages to start Monday afternoon.

Same-sex weddings may soon begin in Florida after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to block them.