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Following the refusal by America’s Supreme Court to hear appeals against same-sex marriage, courts in Alaska and North Carolina struck down bans in those states on gay couples getting hitched (結婚). The Supreme Court also turned down another request to hear an appeal against gay marriage, this time from Idaho.

An “extraordinary synod (宗教會議)” of Catholic bishops (天主教主教) meeting at the Vatican (梵蒂岡) produced a shift towards conciliatory (撫慰的, 懷柔的) language on homosexuality, as well as recognition of the “positive aspects of civil unions and cohabitation (共存)” among heterosexual (異性戀) couples.