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The leftist Italian media have lumped together pro-life and pro-family advocates with “neofascists” and “homophobes” as the wave of “deplorables” threatening to topple the liberal status quo.

An MP belonging to French President Emmanuel Macron’s La Republique En Marche! (LREM) has compared members of a pro-traditional marriage movement to Islamist terrorists.

Pop singer Miley Cyrus claims she is a “new age” queer who is “redefining” relationships and making gender “irrelevant” with her hetero marriage to actor Liam Hemsworth.

Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton danced with “King of Bollywood” Shah Rukh Khan at the $100 million Mumbai wedding on November 30.

Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping’s administration called for an end to increasingly lavish weddings in the Asian country in a decree this weekend, arguing that expensive ceremonies amount to an anathema to “socialist values.”

The president of gay dating app Grindr claimed in a Facebook post that marriage is “between a man and a woman.” His post went on to say, “you can’t deny my feelings about my marriage.”

Hungary is preparing to hold a country-wide national consultation on its family policy, which has already resulted in an increase in marriage and a decline in abortion and divorce.

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) – Two days of voting on a constitutional amendment that would make it harder to legalise same-sex marriage have gotten started in Romania.

A Saudi woman has been told the man who asked to marry her is “religiously unfit”  because he is known to have once played the oriental lute.

Divorce laws in Britain are set to see a “revolution” under the ‘Conservative’ government, as ministers say they are ready to bring in fast “no-fault” break-ups and make it easier to dissolve a marriage unilaterally.

There has been a 100 percent year-on-year rise in the number of forced marriage cases linked to Somali heritage youngsters, with many tricked into returning to Africa, where they are often detained and abused, officials say.

Ireland’s Leo Varadkar had said he will challenge Pope Francis on the ‘equality’ of same-sex families on his upcoming visit, with the establishment demanding the pontiff scrap the church’s “evil” teachings on homosexuality.

UK police pushed charges after less than one in 38 forced marriage reports, with just three convictions in the four years since it was made illegal in the UK.

The Home Office is allowing women with severe mental disabilities to be forcibly married and raped, in Britain and Pakistan, so that foreign men can obtain a visa and stay in the country.

A couple who threatened to murder and “chop up” their daughter after tricking her into travelling to Bangladesh for a forced marriage with her cousin has been jailed for eight years.

Jeff and Angela Hartung recently renewed the vows they made to one another 17 years ago, after a traumatic accident started their love story over from the beginning.

Gov. Mark Dayton endorsed Ilhan Omar, the first Somali immigrant to hold legislative office in the U.S., despite the fact that she has taken radically anti-Israel positions — bordering on antisemitic — and despite questions about the legality of her marriage.

The staunchly independent 106-year-old Madeline Dye of Heeley, in South Yorkshire, England, likes to credit the single life for her long one.

A new survey shows that fewer Americans are being forced to delay going to college, getting married, having kids, buying a home, or retiring because of financial concerns.

The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty filed a legal complaint Thursday against the City of Philadelphia for cutting off Catholic Social Services from foster parent placements because of its religious beliefs regarding the nature of marriage.

Migrants associated with a “Central American Caravan” showed up at the U.S. border Sunday reportedly seeking asylum from gang violence, but many decided to “tie the knot” upon hearing news from their legal counsel that they face separation.

Describing Bush as a “titan of American life,” the president praised her and former President George H.W. Bush’s 73-year marriage.

In its guidelines for the use of gender-inclusive language, the University of Dayton proposes the elimination of the gender-specific terms of “husband” and “wife,” substituting them with “spouse, partner, significant other.”

U.S. evangelist Frankin Graham has hit back at lawmakers who want to ban him from entering the UK on grounds that his preaching allegedly breaks British hate speech laws.

SAUDI police have arrested young men who were sprayed with confetti in a “gay wedding video”. Mecca police made the arrests after the men were seen walking side by side on a carpet at an outdoor festival in the holy city.

Turkey’s religious affairs state agency came under heavy criticism on Thursday from the main opposition party after it said girls as young as nine could marry under Islamic law.

There is no worse “curse” than not being able to support one’s family through hard work, Pope Francis told Vatican employees Thursday, insisting that employment safeguards the dignity of the person.

A woman has become “engaged” to her favorite chandelier, according to a report.

Austrian Roman Catholic Cardinal Christoph Schönborn has slammed a recent supreme court ruling which paves the way for the legalisation of gay marriage beginning in 2019.

A number of California college students are reportedly getting married to help them afford in-state tuition, as out-of-state prices for a university education continue to soar.

A few dozen people took part in a rally this week on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol to speak out against Republican Senate candidate Judge Roy Moore and other “heterosexists” who “hate homosexuals” and to support Democratic candidate Doug Jones. Speakers included a drag queen, transgender Miss Harvey McDaniel, and a woman wearing a clerical collar who was introduced as a reverend.

CNN reported Tuesday that Judge Roy Moore, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Alabama’s upcoming special election, met his wife, Kayla, when she was “15 or 16 years old.”

An investigation suggests almost two-thirds of Muslim wives in Britain were married in Nikah ceremonies which are not legally binding, leaving them unprotected by family courts.

TEL AVIV — A draft bill presented to Tunisian parliament that would give women and men equality with regard to inheritance laws and allow Muslim Tunisian women to marry non-Muslim men has drawn anger from the conservative circles in the country and the wider Arab world.

Nairobi Archbishop Cardinal John Njue has chastised Kenyan men, saying they are getting in the way of their daughters marrying by demanding unreasonable dowries from their would-be sons-in-law.

Tim Farron’s Liberal Democrats have released its general election manifesto, pledging to hold a second EU referendum, scrap the marriage allowance, legalise cannabis, and implement policies which will increase immigration.