The Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals hearing Tuesday was, as Judge Paul Niemeyer characterized it, just one step along the way to an eventual U.S. Supreme Court ruling on whether states, like ...

Virginia’s Constitution bans same-sex marriages and has since 2006, when voters approved a ballot measure that reads: “Only a union between one man and one woman may be a marriage valid in or ...

Protections for reproductive rights, marriage equality and the restoration of voting rights for some felons could be enshrined in the Virginia state constitution if measures that a committee ...

On Saturday evening, members of the LGBTQ+ community in Virginia and its allies gathered at Richmond’s historic Main Street Station for the annual Commonwealth Dinner, a fundraiser hosted by Equality ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WSET) — On Thursday,Senator Adam Ebbin (D-Alexandria) and Delegate Mark Sickles (D-Fairfax) introduced Senate Joint Resolution 11 and House Joint Resolution 9, proposed amendments to ...

RICHMOND — Only a few bills out of the thousands introduced this General Assembly session tackle love. Lawmakers resumed the longstanding effort to codify same-sex marriage protection, but there are a ...

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Here are four proposed constitutional amendments approved by the Virginia Legislature reflecting an unabashedly progressive agenda that voters will weigh in on later this year.

As the chief House of Delegates sponsor of the 2006 voter approved “one-man, one-woman” marriage amendment to Virginia’s Constitution, I want to alert your readers to Democratic efforts to take the ...

RICHMOND, VA — Today, the Virginia General Assembly passed House Joint Resolution 3 (Sickles), a constitutional amendment to protect marriage equality, with bipartisan support in both chambers. Senate ...

Virginia state legislators are considering a bill that would establish the legal marriage age to be 18 without exception. Under the current law, children ages 16 and 17 can marry in the commonwealth ...

The bill passed the legislature and is awaiting action by the governor. Advocates say allowing minors to marry leads to abuses. Lawmakers in Virginia voted this month to require people to be 18 years ...