Virginia has issued 2,670 marriage licenses and 70 birth certificates to same-sex couples since the state began issuing marriage licenses to such couples a year ago Tuesday, according to Attorney ...
As the chief House of Delegates sponsor of the 2006 voter approved “one-man, one-woman” marriage amendment to Virginia’s Constitution, I want to alert your readers to Democratic efforts to take the ...
RICHMOND, Va. -- An appeals courts' decision to strike down Virginia's same-sex marriage ban adds to the growing list of decrees on a hot-button issue that will likely end up being decided by the U.S.
On March 8, Equality Virginia Advocates, the public policy and advocacy arm of the Commonwealth’s leading advocacy organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) equality, ...
RICHMOND — Only a few bills out of the thousands introduced this General Assembly session tackle love. Lawmakers resumed the longstanding effort to codify same-sex marriage protection, but there are a ...
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A federal judge has refused to dismiss a legal challenge by a group objecting to a requirement that race be listed on Virginia marriage license applications. A lawsuit filed ...
The Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals hearing Tuesday was, as Judge Paul Niemeyer characterized it, just one step along the way to an eventual U.S. Supreme Court ruling on whether states, like ...
RICHMOND, Va. — Wednesday, the Privileges and Elections Committee in the Virginia General Assembly heard arguments on three proposed constitutional amendments. On Thursday, lawmakers are helping us ...
Confronted with a newly Democrat-dominated legislature, Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin (R) signed a bill on Friday codifying same-sex marriage in the Commonwealth. With Youngkin’s signature, the ...
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — In a surprising move, Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) has signed bills protecting same-sex marriages at a state level. The bills, which were passed out of both chambers along mostly ...
Gay marriage cases are proceeding slowly but surely in the wake of the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act in July. Thirteen states have legal gay marriage, and according to the ...