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Apr 2010
Elizabeth Taylor to Marry Longtime Boyfriend. Screen legend Elizabeth Taylor is reportedly engaged to be married for the ninth time, Us Weekly reports. Jason Winters, 49, of Sterling Winters Management, has been dating the actress for several years, according the magazine. Getty Images has photographs of the couple working red carpets together for at least the past three years. “It’s no secret that they’ve been together forever and are in love, so it wouldn’t be a surprise if they were engaged,” a source said. “Right now they are keeping it between them.” “Jason Winters is one of the most wonderful men I’ve ever known and that’s why I love him,”
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A federal appeals court ruled Monday that California’s ban on gay marriage will remain in place indefinitely as judges consider whether it is constitutional.
The decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturns the order of judge Vaughn Walker last week that would have permitted same-sex couples to marry as soon as this week.
The three-judge panel that issued the decision said the 9th Circuit will expedite the challenge to California’s voter-aproved ban on gay marriage, though the case will not be heard in court until December.
Earlier in the month, U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker ruled that the ban, known as Proposition 8, amounts to unconstitutional discrimination. Just last week, Walker ordered it to be lifted on Wednesday, Aug. 18.
Opponents of same-sex unions responded harshly to Walker’s decision, saying it reflected his judicial activism.
“When a lower judge makes an unprecedented ruling that totally overturns existing Supreme Court precedent, the normal thing for that judge to do is to stay his decision, and let the higher courts decide, in an orderly fashion that respects the rule of law, if he’s right or if he’s way off-base,” said Brian Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage.
The appeals court decision is a further setback for gay rights advocates, many of whom were planning wedding ceremonies for 5 o’clock on Wednesday, when same-sex marriages would have resumed for the first time since November 2008, when voters approved Proposition 8.