Gays marrying will lead to a lesbian queen giving birth to a future monarch by artificial insemination, a former Tory chairman has warned.

Lord Tebbit, 82, also told the Big Issue magazine the legislation in England and Wales could also allow him to marry his son to escape inheritance tax.

Imagine: you want to set up a new company but the law requires you to have the written consent of your wife; or you’ve just got pregnant, but you haven’t got a piece of paper with your husband’s signature on it stating he’s OK with that; or you’ve just been involved in a major car accident, sadly without your spouse’s written approval.

Australian supporters of marriage equality have picketed the electorate office of Opposition leader Tony Abbott to mark the signing into law of same-sex marriage by French President Francois Hollande.

Over 120 people gathered today outside Abbott’s Manly electorate office to highlight the fact that Australia is increasingly out of step with its international peers, with same-sex marriage legislation passing in New Zealand last month and France becoming the 14th country to allow same-sex couples.

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.

A church in New Castle County, Delaware has removed an image from its electronic billboard which appeared to be criticizing efforts in the state to legalize same-sex marriage after it said it had been misinterpreted.

The image on the Glasgow Church billboard showed a Christian cross and an equals sign on a red background with a ‘greater than’ math sign between them – appearing to send the message that religion was more important than marriage equality.

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 head of the Catholic church in New Zealand has responded to the legalization of same-sex marriage in the country last week.

Archbishop John Dew of Wellington said:

'We find it bizarre that what has been discarded is an understanding of marriage that has its origin in human nature and is common to every culture.'

The Archbishop added 'we know many New Zealanders stand with us in this', Catholic News Agency reports.

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.

Married and Counting, a documentary about a gay couple who wed in eight states, premieres this month in New York City.

Narrated by openly gay actor George Takei and starring Pat Dwyer and Stephen Mosher, Married and Counting follows the couple on their journey to get married in every state where it was legal at the time.

Olympia Snowe, the ex-Senator of Maine, stated yesterday (5 April) she now supports marriage equality.

'I think obviously this has evolved over time on the whole issue for the whole country and the nation,' she said to CNN, as reported by the newspaper the Portland Press Herald. 'We've seen a sea change in society's whole attitude on this particular issue and it's only natural for government to be responsive to those changes.'

Bob Casey, US senator from Pennsylvania, came out in favor of marriage equality on Monday (1 April) and also called for the end of the Defense of Marriage Act.

Casey had been under increasing pressure after four of his Democratic colleagues in the senate switched their positions last week when the US Supreme Court heard cases challenging DOMA and California's Proposition 8.