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 ...

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 ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- An appeals courts' decision to strike down Virginia's same-sex marriage ban adds to the growing list of decrees on a hot-button issue that will likely end up being decided by the U.S.

On March 8, Equality Virginia Advocates, the public policy and advocacy arm of the Commonwealth’s leading advocacy organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) equality, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brigitte Combs lives outside of Richmond and said she came to the Virginia state capitol when she heard legislators were discussing the issue of minors and forced marriage. Taking a deep breath, she ...

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 ...

FILE - West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice delivers his annual State of the State address in the House Chambers at the state Capitol in Charleston, W.Va., Jan. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Chris Jackson, File) ...

Lawmakers in Virginia voted this month to require people to be 18 years old to get married. If the governor signs this bill into law, Virginia would be only the 12th state to ban marriage for minors.