A senior Church of England bishop has told opponents of gay marriage they are like supporters of the former racist regime in South Africa.

The Rt Rev Nicholas Holtam, Bishop of Salisbury, has urged Christians to ‘rethink’ their attitude to homosexuality and change their interpretations of the Bible.

After nearly a year on the film festival circuit, the drama I Do is being released in theaters just as the US Supreme Court is poised to announce its ruling on the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act.

'This film is relevant now but it’s been relevant to the hundreds of thousands of people that DOMA’s affecting,' the film's star and writer David W. Ross said on MSNBC's The Cycle this week.

'Hopefully, we can look back and see this film and realize why DOMA has to go - the devastating effects it has on families and human beings.’

As part of a stand against Australian laws prohibiting same-sex marriages, a gay man is planning to marry a lesbian bride at a demonstration in Brisbane.

Chad St James, a student filmmaker and gay rights activist is marrying lesbian Kristan Walker this Sunday (26 May) forming what has been described as a government endorsed ‘gay’ marriage.

On Facebook, the gay husband-to-be said ‘needless to say I'm all kinds of nervous and stressed’ about marrying Kristan, a fellow marriage equality activist.

A three-year-old boy is incredibly upset about one thing, and it is not about juice boxes or wanting to play video games.

He’s said same-sex marriage is still not legal in Australia, and he will definitely make his voice heard.

In the video below, an Australian couple is discussing marriage with their son, and he says he would quite like to ‘marry Mommy’ but is told he can’t because she ‘already has a husband’.

But when he is told Prime Minister Julia Gillard will not let him have a husband either, a temper tantrum follows.

Gay couples are not allowed to make joint political donations like straight couples, said the Federal Election Commission (FEC) this week.

The agency that regulates campaign finance legislation in the US said unanimously this week that their ‘hands were tied’ because of the Defence of Marriage Act (DOMA), which prevents the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages.

L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican’s newspaper, has written the French law on gay marriage is ‘divisive'.

The Vatican publication added: 'It is a very ideological move, something that does not respect the will of the majority.’

In fact opinion polls show 58% of French people support the new law.

The ‘Mariage Pour Tous’ bill, which was passed by the French parliament on Tuesday (23 April) was also criticized yesterday (24 April) by the Vatican’s spokesman, Federico Lombardi.

The French right-wing party UMP has attacked the Larousse dictionary for its new definition of ‘marriage’.

In the new edition of the 2014 dictionary, which will be published in June, marriage is a ‘solemn act between two same-sex or different-sex persons, who decide to establish a union’.

According to the commentators, Larousse’s move comes after the new French marriage law, which is being discussed at the National Assembly.

The Irish Bishops Conference (IBC) issued a stern warning to Ireland’s government not to legalize gay marriage or else the Catholic Church will no longer work with the state in solemnizing marriages.

In addition the IBC said that by legalizing marriage equality it would reduce marriage to an ‘arrangement of the sexual relationship of any two people’ endangering the family and society.

The warning was submitted by the IBC to Ireland’s Constitutional Convention, which is considering the issue of gay marriage.

Lord Carey says gay marriage is an example of PM David Cameron’s ‘aggressive secularisation’.

In an article written for British newspaper The Daily Mail, the former Bishop of Canterbury, who has previously said that gay marriage will lead to polygamy and could turn Britain into Nazi Germany, went on to liken the PM’s religious persecution to the government’s support of same-sex marriage.

As excitement builds around the US Supreme Court’s hearings on gay marriage, many have shown their support by customizing the Human Rights Campaign's logo – currently colored red for equal marriage.

From Lion King’s Rafiki, holding up the logo in place of baby Simba, to Stormtroopers walking hand-in-hand, fans have wanted to show their popular TV and film characters backing the fight.

Rocky Horror Show writer Richard O'Brien has said he is now 30% woman after taking female hormone estrogen for 10 years.

He says he has long struggled with transgender feelings but did not act on them until later in life. His brother’s reaction to hearing O’Brien, at six-and-a-half years old, wanting to be a ‘fairy princess’ caused him to shut down and ignore his feelings for 50 years.

Speaking to the BBC, O’Brien said ‘you can’t just put the lid on things and pretend they don’t exist’ and began to take estrogen a decade ago.