We also learned this week that the IRS leaked information about donors to at least one nonprofit group that opposes homosexual marriage to a group that supports homosexual marriage.
Lobby group Protect Marriage also continued an online campaign, saying the change will undermine the traditional concept of marriage.
"Obviously at this stage we've still got more work to do, " said John Kloprogge, spokesman for campaign group Australian Marriage Equality.
Scotland For Marriage, the campaigning group against gay marriage, said it would not be deflected from its work by "the personal failings of a single high-profile supporter".
The Marriage Foundation, a campaign group which champions marriage, said the statistics were symptomatic of an "appalling epidemic of family breakdown".
In March 2012 the Huffington Post published the names of donors to the pro-marriage group contained in IRS Form 990 Schedule B from 2008.
Nisa Muhammad of the Wedded Bliss Foundation, a pro-marriage group, urges her college-educated sisters to consider marrying honourable blue-collar workers, such as the postman.
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The couple is still happily hitched, a fact that has led to their naming as the "longest married couple" in the U.S. for 2013 by Worldwide Marriage Encounter, a Christian marriage group based in San Bernardino, Calif.
In March Christian Concern, a lobby group that opposes gay marriage, booked rooms for its conference at the Law Society, a statutory body that represents solicitors in England and Wales.
The Maryland Marriage Alliance group says it's gathered thousands of signatures and is approaching the threshold required to put the issue on the ballot, adding further uncertainty to the Port and Cowan case.
The Rhode Island legislation states that religious institutions may set their own rules regarding who is eligible to marry within the faith and specifies that no religious leader is obligated to officiate at any marriage ceremony and no religious group is required to provide facilities or services related to a gay marriage.
Yet they are winning, says Kristi Hayes, a Washington-based spokeswoman for the Abstinence Clearinghouse, a group that advocates celibacy until marriage and fidelity thereafter.
The Oregon Family Council is a conservative Christian group that opposes same-sex marriage and abortion rights.
Elizabeth Ray, a spokeswoman for the National Organization for Marriage, said the group increased security at its Washington, D.
"Millions of people understand that it's not bigotry to believe that marriage is between a man and a woman, and it's not right-wing to think that children need a mother and a father, not two mothers and two fathers, " said Gary Bauer, president of American Values, a group opposed to same-sex marriage.
"I assume that Senator Clinton -- who has spoken out strongly against military discrimination, who stands for civil unions and respect for same-sex couples -- understands that gay Americans are not immoral, and she ought to say so clearly, " said Evan Wolfson, executive director of Freedom to Marry, a group that advocates same-sex marriage.
If the government's plans become law, the UK will join a select group of 12 countries where same-sex marriage is legal.
Even before the judgment came down, a conservative group had begun to collect signatures for a measure defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
More recently the group has campaigned for the repeal of the California state gay marriage ban.
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The resolution "clarifies the Association's support for same-sex marriage" in light of new research, the group said.
In a measure of the bitterness of the public debate, Serge Dassault, CEO of the Dassault industrial group and a conservative politician, predicted in November that gay marriage would lead to the decline of the French nation, like the peoples of ancient Greece.
The former, mostly close to the Cornerstone Group, were out in force at an anti-gay-marriage rally on the conference fringe.
"There are big differences among younger and older Americans, with the youngest age group twice as likely than senior citizens to support same-sex marriage, " says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.
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She used to run a gay and lesbian advocacy group, she was a visible player in the push to legalize gay marriage in the state, and her 2012 wedding to her longtime partner, attorney Kim Catullo, was one of the biggest political parties of the year.
An opinion poll released Wednesday by polling group Ifop and Le Monde newspaper found 65% of those surveyed support equal marriage rights for same-sex couples -- a clear majority of the population.
Luke Trill, from the gay rights group, Stonewall, who was also taking part in the debate, said allowing marriage would strengthen the institution.
On questions such as gay marriage, abortion and funding for Planned Parenthood, a family-planning group, Mr Romney, his running-mate Paul Ryan and his party have big electoral weaknesses among women, especially younger ones.
Azhar Mehmood runs a women's welfare group and works with the British High Commission in Mirpur to raise awareness about forced marriage - but is increasingly hearing from women who say they've been abandoned.
The group's director, Diana Nammi, said in some traditional communities children are promised in marriage at a young age.
Dr. Suhaila Zein al-Abedin of the Saudi National Association for Human Rights -- also a government-backed group -- voiced concern not only about the age difference, but the circumstances of the marriage.
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