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Two straight friends named Michael O'Sullivan and Matt Murphy married each other in Dublin last week to avoid paying an inherence tax on the latter's property . The grooms have been friends for almost 30 years, and Michael is now Matt's carer. Matt doesn't have any next of kin, and wanted to hand down his house to Michael without paying any penalties.
Same-sex couples hurry to declare plans to tie the knot as Australia's new marriage equality law came into effect, with wedding registry offices holding special hours for the first day of legalised gay unions.
On Monday the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal from a Colorado bakery that refused to make wedding cakes for same-sex couples. In the wake of the Supreme Court's 2015 same-sex marriage decision, florists, bakers, photographers, and other businesses have cited religious and free-speech objections in refusing to serve gay and lesbian customers. But those claims have not fared well in court, The current case saw two men file a complaint against Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop in suburban Denver. Phillips refused to make a cake for their wedding reception. He runs his cake business guided by religious principles. He closes on Sunday and refuses to make cakes containing alcohol or celebrating Halloween. According to Phillips, requiring him to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple would violate his religious views.
A federal appeals court ordered Texas on Wednesday to pay about $600,000 to cover the legal fees for two same-sex couples who defeated the state's ban on same-sex marriage in a protracted court battle. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit awarded $585,470 in attorneys’ fees and about $20,000 in costs arising from the challenge to the plaintiffs in the case, Cleopatra DeLeon, Nicole Dimetman, Victor Holmes and Mark Phariss. Our lawyers did an outstanding job," Phariss said in an interview. (Reporting by Jon Herskovitz; Additional reporting by Jim Forsyth in San Antonio; Editing by Leslie Adler)
According to a lawsuit filed on Wednesday to challenge the measure, a North Carolina law that allows government officials to refuse to perform same-sex marriages if they cite religious objections is unconstitutional and should be struck down. The six plaintiffs, who include gay and interracial couples, argue the legislation allows magistrates and other officials who perform marriages to put their personal beliefs before their sworn constitutional duty. North Carolina's Republican-led legislature passed the law earlier this year as social conservatives nationwide pushed for so-called "religious freedom bills" in response to same-sex marriage becoming legal.
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