* " Litigating the Defense of Marriage Act: The Next Battleground for Same-Sex Marriage.

However, the provinces may use the " notwithstanding clause " only on legislation that they otherwise have the authority to enact, and the Supreme Court ruled in Reference re Same-Sex Marriage that the definition of marriage is within the exclusive domain of the Canadian Parliament.

A government may also raise questions of rights by submitting reference questions to higher-level courts ; for example, Prime Minister Paul Martin's government approached the Supreme Court with Charter questions as well as federalism concerns in the case Re Same-Sex Marriage ( 2004 ).

* Same-Sex Marriage, Civil Unions, and Domestic Partnerships topic page from The New York Times

* Know Your Rights: Legal Advice for Same-Sex Couples where Marriage and / or Domestic Partnership is Illegal

The Case for Same-Sex Marriage: From Sexual Liberty to Civilized Commitment.

* Debating Same-Sex Marriage with John Corvino ( 2012 ) New York: Oxford University Press.

* Defending Same-Sex Marriage Rights in Massachusetts

* Anderson Cooper 360, " Same-Sex Marriage Ban Overturned ", August 2010

* Love's Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West by Ruth Vanita.

* Same-Sex Marriage in Canada

The first headline was " Repercussions of Same-Sex Marriage In Massachusetts ", written by David J.

In 2004, he was lead counsel for the Canadian Government in the Supreme Court's same-sex marriage reference .< ref > Reference re Same-Sex Marriage,

* Reference re Same-Sex Marriage, 2004

Reference re Same-Sex Marriage 3 S. C. R.

C-38 was written on the basis of a draft bill produced by then-Justice minister Martin Cauchon in 2003, which had been submitted to the Supreme Court of Canada in December 2004 as the reference question Re: Same-Sex Marriage.

** Founding Family: “ Morality ” versus Same-Sex Marriage

( see: Same-Sex Marriage )

* sexual orientation ( Egan v. Canada, Vriend v. Alberta, M. v. H. Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v. Canada ) This finding has led provincial courts ( the Supreme Court declined in Reference re Same-Sex Marriage to rule on the issue as the government had voiced its intent to legalize them anyway ) to find that laws against same-sex marriage in Canada would be unconstitutional.

The Long-Term Commitment to Africa Policy, the Commitment to the Kyoto Accord Policy, the Protection of Sex Trade Workers Policy, Canada Post-Secondary Education Transfer Policy, and the Same-Sex Marriage Rights Policy planks of the Liberal Party of Canada all originated as YLC policy.

* No Right to Marriage for Same-Sex Couples by David Novak

Gay Pride 2005 celebrating Same-Sex Marriage Law in Spain

The Supreme Court of Canada, in Re: Same-Sex Marriage ( 2004 ), held that Parliament ( as opposed to provincial legislatures ) had the power to define marriage as including same-sex unions.

Same-Sex Desire and Love in Greco-Roman Antiquity and In the Classical Tradition of the West, Harrington Park Press.

* March 6 – On an episode of The Jenny Jones Show (" Same-Sex Crushes "), Scott Amedure reveals a crush on his heterosexual friend Jonathan Schmitz.

In Geoffrey Giles ' article " The Denial of Homosexuality: Same-Sex Incidents in Himmler's SS ", several cases are put forward where members of the Nazi SS are tried for homosexual offences.

Jeffrey P. Dennis, author of the journal article " The Same Thing We Do Every Night: Signifying Same-Sex Desire in Television Cartoons ," argued that SpongeBob and Sandy are not romantically in love, while adding that he believed that SpongeBob and Patrick " are paired with arguably erotic intensity.

McCallum was quite vocal in Canada's debate on Same-Sex marriage.

He also authored the 1996 book Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example, which argues that homosexuality was not uncommon among early Mormons, and was not seen as a serious sin or transgression.

On 2 June 2008 Brandis, in his capacity as Shadow Attorney-General, referred the Same-Sex Relationships ( Equal Treatment in Commonwealth Laws – Superannuation ) Bill 2008 to a Senate committee for review.

" Jeffrey P. Dennis, author of " The Same Thing We Do Every Night: Signifying Same-Sex Desire in Television Cartoons ," argued that the romantic connection between Velma and Daphne Blake is " mostly wishful thinking " because Velma and Daphne " barely acknowledge each other's existence.

Historians Ruth Vanita and Saleem Kidwai, in their pioneering book, Same-Sex Love in India: Readings from Literature and History, for the first time compiled extracts from Indian texts, from ancient to modern times, including many Hindu texts, translated from 15 Indian languages.

* Quinn, D. Michael, Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth Century Americas: The Mormon Example ( Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1996 ): 371-372.

Also see Allan Tulchin, " Same-Sex Couples Creating Households in Old Regime France: The Uses of the Affrèrement.

This theme has arisen in Quinn's The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power and is the central topic of Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example.

* Richard Ziser, " The Next Step In Marriage Protection ", Desert Saints Magazine, July 2006 Issue

47, No. 3, Kidnapping and Elopement as Alternative Systems of Marriage ( Special Issue ) ( July 1974 ), p. 245

" Marriage By Capture in the Hmong Culture: The Legal Issue of Cultural Rights Versus Women's Rights ", Law and Society Review at UCSB, Vol.

* Wardle, Lynn D. " A Critical Analysis of Constitutional Claims for Same Sex Marriage.

* An Examination of the Constitutional Amendment on Marriage Hearing before the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights.

* Federal Marriage Amendment, a proposed United States Constitutional amendment

Same-sex marriages would not become immediately possible because of limitations in the Marriage Act ; in any event, the government took the decision on appeal to the Constitutional Court.

This postponement was to allow for input from then ongoing investigations: the Law Reform Commission, the High court KAL Case on the Canadian Marriage and the Constitutional Review committee.

The government appealed the SCA's ruling to the Constitutional Court, arguing that a major alteration to the institution of marriage was for Parliament and not the courts to decide, while Fourie and Bonthuys cross-appealed, arguing that the Marriage Act should be altered as Judge Farlam had suggested.

In the meanwhile, the Lesbian and Gay Equality Project had also launched a separate lawsuit directly attacking the constitutionality of the Marriage Act, which was originally to be heard in the Johannesburg High Court ; the Constitutional Court granted the Project's request to have it heard and decided simultaneously with the Fourie case.

On 1 December 2005 the Constitutional Court handed down its decision: the nine justices agreed unanimously that the common-law definition of marriage and the marriage formula in the Marriage Act, to the extent that they excluded same-sex partners from marriage, were unfairly discriminatory, unjustifiable, and therefore unconstitutional and invalid.

* Centre for Constitutional Studies: Reference re Same-sex Marriage ( 2004 )

On July 25, 2011, New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, represented by Liberty Counsel, filed a lawsuit in the New York Supreme Court seeking an injunction against the Marriage Equality Act, alleging corruption and violations of the law in the process of passing the bill.

Acting through Lord Falconer of Thoroton, Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs and Lord Chancellor, the sitting government issued a written statement published by the House of Lords in their debate record: Quote from " Royal Marriage ", Lords Hansard, 24 Feb 2005: