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Ohio bill would ban ejaculation without intent to conceive — with exceptions for LGBTQ+ people

The Conception Begins at Erection Act contains exceptions for men using birth control, donating sperm, masturbating, or having sex with another man or member of the LGBTQ+ community.

Glenn Beck Says Marriage Equality Bill Will Hurt 'Procreation'

Glen Beck's guest said that LGBTQ+ people "can't procreate or won't procreate," adding, "That ain't natural and that ain't good." 

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Fed. Judges Get Tough on States Defending Marriage Bans

In today's hearing before the Seventh Circuit, judges challenged the arguments that procreation and tradition justify limiting marriage to heterosexual couples.

Virginia Attorney Files Brief Saying Courts Didn't Have Right to Allow Same-Sex Unions

In the first brief filed after a Virginia judge ruled the state's same-sex marriage ban, one attorney argues that'll lead to marriages between close relatives.

Judge Hears Arguments on Lifting Texas Marriage Ban; No Ruling Yet

The couples challenging the ban want it suspended while they await a trial in the case.

Procreation a losing argument

Those who advocate that marriage should be reserved purely for the purpose of procreation have argued themselves into a corner. If they truly want that as a standard, then it should apply it to everyone.

WATCH: Straight Russians Called on to Reproduce

Russia encourages straight couples to go forth and multiply, even offering prizes for procreation.

Texas Supreme Court Hears Same-Sex Marriage Challenge

Lawyers for Texas argue the state has an interest in procreation and opposite-sex unions are the only relationships that can produce the offspring needed for economic growth.

View From Washington: Jurisprudence

Just three years since New York's high court used procreation as a reason to block gays from marrying, the U.S. government has begun to dismantle that argument.

Challenge to federal marriage ban tossed out (16284)

In one of the few challenges to the federal Defense of Marriage Act, a California judge on Thursday ruled that the 1996 law recognizing only unions between a man and a woman as valid does not violate the U.S. Constitution.

Attorneys Make Final Case in Prop 8 Trial

Judge Vaughn Walker did not rule from the bench, but is expected to issue his decision soon. 

Kentucky's Marriage Ban Ruled Unconstitutional

A federal judge declared that Kentucky's refusal to recognize legal out-of-state same-sex marriages is unconstitutional, but stopped short of establishing marriage equality in the state.

Nev. Politician: Gays Are Unconstitutional Since They Can't Procreate

John Carlo, running for Clark County School Board, went on a truly bizarre rant while speaking at a church.

Op-ed: The Hypocrisy of the Antigay Procreation Argument

Those fighting same-sex couples' access to marriage claim the institution exists only to support procreation -- even though the government actively encourages couples past child-rearing age to wed.

Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert: Strand Gays on an Island, See What Happens

A Republican congressman argued that the ability to procreate is the true test of marriage in a speech to a D.C. youth group.

Glenn Beck Shamelessly Shoots Off on Breeding

The D-list conservative commentator reemerges to say that marriage equality stymies procreation but, more sinisterly, lunges another dangerous dagger of hate at our community.

Ky. Gov. Claims Marriage Equality Threatens Birth Rates

In appealing a February ruling that struck down Kentucky's ban on marriage equality, lawyers for the state claim that allowing same-sex couples to marry would cripple the state's economy, since those couples can't procreate.

Chief of Kenya's Film Board Says 'Crazy Gay' Lions Learned From Humans

Kenya's film board chief's homophobia ranges from Disney shows to same-sex lions who appeared to be copulating.