A United Methodist Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has gone rogue on the issue of same-sex marriage – telling the state and the United Methodist Church leadership that it will not perform marriages until its pastors are allowed to marry all couples.

Voters in three US states may have just passed bills allowing gay marriage, but Republican legislators in Indiana may be still pushing forward with a constitutional amendment banning the marriages in their state.

Even though same-sex marriage is already illegal in the state, an amendment has been authored by Representative Eric Turner (R-Marion) that would ban it in the state constitution and define marriage as being between one man and one woman.

Thirty US states have passed such constitutional bans with the most recent being North Carolina in May.

A university in the US state of North Carolina has banned fast food chain Chick-fil-A because of its opposition to gay marriage.

Elon University's Student Government Association voted 35 to 11 in favor of kicking the restuarant off the campus.

If the group's president approves the decision then Chick-fil-A will be asked to leave the college's food court.

The ruling to expel the eatery from the school premises was initiated by campus LGBT group Spectrum, claiming Chick-fil-A's presence violates the university's non-discrimination policy.

This week Democrats meet in Charlotte, N.C. to nominate President Barack Obama as their candidate for the November election. Like Republicans last week, Democrats will accept their party platform. Unlike the GOP, Obama's party is firmly standing behind gay marriage.

Called 'Moving America Forward,'  the Democrats' platform offers unequivocal support for civil marriage rights.

Davidson College in North Carolina has become the first college to give Chick-fil-A the boot - at least for now - for donating millions of dollars to anti-gay organizations and publicly taking a stand against gay marriage.

Davidson doesn't actually have a Chick-fil-A restaurant on its campus but the school was serving the chain's food at its monthly After Midnight food and music events.

Televangelist Pat Robertson said this week that he wishes people demonstrating against fast food chain Chick-fil-A for its public stance against gay marriage and millions of dollars of contributions to anti-gay groups 'would shut their mouth.'

Robertson takes issue with college students around the US, including in New York, Virginia, North Carolina and Mississippi, who do not want a company they perceive as being against LGBT rights on their campuses.

The partisan divide over gay marriage continues to grow in the US with a new poll showing that 65% of Democrats now favor marriage equality while just 24% of Republicans do.

The numbers are from a survey of 2,973 adults taken between June 28 and July 9 conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life and the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.

Looks like for the next few days US politics will be defined by if you eat at Chick-fil-A.

The fast food restaurant has been in the spotlight recently for its donations in support of anti-gay initiatives. Yesterday, 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin tweeted she and her husband were at the restaurant after a Texas campaign rally.

Nancy Pelosi, the House Minority Leader, went to her Twitter feed to say how she preferred a Chick-fil-A rival.

An inspiring transgender teen is seeking help to fund his dream of attending a progressive school in North Carolina.

American 14-year-old Asher Doyle is trying to raise the money to attend Arthur Morgan School, a trans-friendly Quaker boarding school.

Doyle says: ‘Being 14 isn’t easy, not for anyone: puberty, middle school, and all that crazy stuff. For trans kids like me, it’s even more complicated.’

The teen found out about his gender identity at the age of two, and has found it difficult to be at public schools.

Holding signs with such slogans as 'Stop the Hate' and 'Gay Rights are Civil Rights,' more than 1,000 people on Sunday (27 May) demonstrated against a North Carolina pastor who recommended that gays and lesbians be confined behind electric fences so they will all die off.

The Sunday sermon by Charles L. Worley of Providence Road Baptist Church in Maiden, North Carolina, went viral after it was posted on YouTube.

A public demonstration will be held in North Carolina on Sunday (27 May) to protest the message of a Baptist minister who, during a sermon earlier this month, recommended that gays and lesbians be confined behind electric fences so they will all die off.