Gay Marriage

Just minutes after the Supreme Court of the United States issued its 5-4 decision to expand same-sex marriage to all 50 states, Montana Governor Steve Bullock issued the following statement, celebrating the decision:

Gay marriage supporters are cheering after U.S. District Court Judge Brian Morris overturned the state of Montana's Constitutional Amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman.

Tuesday, October 1 is the first day for same sex and opposite sex domestic partners to sign up on the City of Missoula's Domestic Partnership Registry.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Hollingsworth v. Perry, the case that is challenging the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage. It is the first of two gay-marriage-related cases the court will hear this week; on Wednesday it will hear arguments in United States v. Windsor, a challenge to the constitutionality of the federal Defense of