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The Merriam-Webster dictionary, among others, now include same-sex relationships under the definition of marriage.

It may be a case of all or nothing as the California Supreme Court considers eliminating the term "marriage" from state statutes and treat both kinds of couples - same-sex and opposite-sex - equally.

The California Supreme Court has to decide whether to defer to the voters of whom 52 percent support a same-sex marriage ban, or reaffirm their original ruling that preventing gay people from marrying is unconstitutional.

The Australia's federal govt has for the second time invoked special powers to invalidate a territory's law that would have been the first in recognising same-sex relationships. Since being fired as pastor of amid a gay-sex and drugs scandal, the disgraced American evangelist Ted Haggard has been pronounced 'completely heterosexual.' A man in the French Caribbean island of Martinique, has been charged with incitement of murder for advocating the killing of gay people on his blog.