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A Christian legal group and a coalition of traditional marriage advocates have appealed last week’s decision by the District of Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics to refuse to place the marriage issue before voters.

Two days after “outing” the federal judge who will be ruling on California’s key gay marriage case, San Francisco’s largest newspaper emphasized Tuesday that Vaughn Walker of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has a “proven record of impartiality.”

Pro-family and faith-based organizations across the United States marked the start of National Marriage Week on Sunday to draw special attention on the need to strengthen marriage and the ways to do it.

Gay rights group Lambda Legal and the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii Foundation are planning to take legal action against the state of Hawaii after the State House of Representatives declined to vote last week on legislation to legalize civil unions in the Aloha State.

When the Apostle Paul wrote of the “perversion” of men and women who committed “indecent acts” with those of the same sex, he was talking about people he understood to be heterosexuals engaging in same-sex acts, according to The Episcopal Church’s first actively-gay bishop.

Four Christians on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit challenging the recently enacted Hate Crimes Prevention Act, arguing that it seeks to criminalize deeply held religious beliefs that are in opposition to homosexuality.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced Tuesday that the Pentagon has begun the process to repeal the “don't ask, don't tell” policy that bars homosexuals from openly serving in the military.

A full Hawaii Senate vote on a bill that would legalize same-sex civil unions in the state could take place as early as Friday after having been postponed last year.

Tuesday’s events saw the testimony of two additional witnesses for the plaintiffs: San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders and Dr. M.V. Lee Badgett, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts.

There is no hearing today in the Perry case because the federal court is closed for the Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday. This break in the action gives us an opportunity to describe what life is like behind the scenes at the California marriage amendment trial.