Phil Bryant has said he wants Mississippi to be the "safest place in America for an unborn child".

The US Supreme Court is to decide whether same-sex couples have a right to marry under the country’s constitution, setting up a potentially historic ruling on one of America’s most sweeping social issues.

Gay and lesbian couples are getting legally married in the south-east of the US for the first time, with the practice crossing into a conservative region that has long stood against same-sex marriage.

Cocaine cake a ‘joke in bad taste’

A conservative Christian organisation is appealing against a ruling against a suburban Denver baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex ceremony.