Virginia’s Constitution bans same-sex marriages and has since 2006, when voters approved a ballot measure that reads: “Only a union between one man and one woman may be a marriage valid in or ...

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. -- 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.

With the SCOTUS ruling last month that recognition of same-sex marriage is a decision to be left to the states, the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia is gearing up to challenge its state’s ...

Protections for reproductive rights, marriage equality and the restoration of voting rights for some felons could be enshrined in the Virginia state constitution if measures that a committee ...

To some people in Virginia, the fight over legalization of same-sex marriage echoes a decades-old battle over the state’s 1924 law banning marriage between white and black people. “You’re talking ...

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 ...

The legal forces challenging Virginia’s ban on same-sex marriage have been brought together in something like a shotgun wedding, uniting lawyers who previously clashed over the best legal strategy to ...

Last night a federal judge threw out the ban on gay marriage in Virginia. Judge Arenda L. Wright Allen ruled that four plaintiffs - two men, two women - should have the right to marry. It's a strongly ...

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