HICKMAN COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) – In the wake of last week’s Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage, several Tennessee county clerks have decided to stop performing marriage ceremonies altogether. One ...

Judge Tonya Parker is openly gay and does not perform marriage ceremonies. Feb. 24, 2012 — -- Texas Judge Tonya Parker cannot legally marry a woman in her state, so she refuses to perform any ...

Competing demonstrations take place outside the U.S. Supreme Court as it hears a case on gender-affirming care for transgender children in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 4, 2024. A Waco justice of the ...

A Texas judge is asking a federal court to overturn marriage equality in the U.S., arguing in a lawsuit filed on Friday that marriage for same-sex couples is unconstitutional because it was legalized ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Texas judges and justices of the peace, who are legally allowed to perform wedding ceremonies, now will not face punishment if they refuse to perform a ceremony on the basis of a ...

The hullabaloo earlier this year regarding Pope Francis’ directive to allow priests to provide blessings to same-sex couples once again placed the issue of sexual minorities and religion in headlines.

A Waco justice of the peace who refused to marry same-sex couples filed a federal lawsuit Friday that asks the courts to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 Supreme Court decision that recognized ...