Gay Marriage

On Cincinnati Edition's weekly news review, local journalists join us to talk about the big stories from recent days.

What’s being called the Respect for Marriage Act is supported by all Democrats in the Senate. But Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has announced a vote won’t happen before the election. Brown said that’s because Republicans are saying they’ll vote no because it’s too political.

Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) is hoping for a vote by the end of the year on the bill, which is supported by all Democrats but only a handful of Republicans in the Senate, including Portman.

In 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court decision of Obergefell v. Hodges cleared the way for legal same-sex marriage across the county. After nearly seven years and tens of thousands of same-sex marriages in Ohio, the letter of the law still states that marriage can only be between one man and one woman.

A local political race in a northeast Kentucky town is drawing attention well beyond the Appalachian community. A gay man who was refused a marriage…

Last June in the landmark case, Obergefell v. Hodges, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the right to marry is guaranteed to same sex couples under the…

After years of legal limbo for same-sex couples in four states including Ohio and Kentucky, the U.S. Supreme Court has reversed an appeals court decision,…

Dozens of attorneys representing four states, and the lawsuits against them, have converged in Washington D.C. to argue whether same-sex marriage should…

It's a waiting game now as judges in the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals mull over arguments to both overturn and uphold federal decisions in same sex…

In a new report, researchers say Indiana, the most recent state studied by the Williams Institute, would see an economic boost of $39.1 million to the…