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– The Oklahoma same-sex couple that filed suit for the right to marry nine years ago is still waiting for their day in court.
– Two more Illinois same-sex couples have been granted the right to marry before the state’s law takes effect because each includes a partner facing chronic illness.
– Because the Department of Veteran Affairs still does not recognize same-sex marriages, a Texas couple will have to pay $50,000 more for their new house than they would have if they’d been granted the VA loan they were denied.
– The faculty at the University of Southern Indiana are the latest to pass a resolution opposing the proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
– The European Court of Justice has ruled that workers in civil partnerships are entitled to the same benefits as married couples.
– French President François Hollande is the latest world leader to announce he will not be attending the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
– According to a new poll, 70 percent of Israelis support “equal rights” for same-sex couples.
– Former soccer manager Chris Mubiru has been arrested in Uganda for “sodomizing” one of his players; graphic pictures of the two allegedly having sex were published last year in the tabloid Red Pepper.
– Thousands rallied Sunday in India, protesting the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the colonial-era sodomy law: