Proposition 8 may have lost last week in California, but gay couples still have an alternative wedding venue at Connecticut. Hartford will start to issue marriage license and solemnize weddings of gay and lesbian couples beginning Wednesday following a final judgment from Superior Court Judge Jonathan Silbert.

The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled on Oct. 10 that gay couples have the right to wed instead of just being joined by a civil union law. With the ruling, Connecticut joins Massachusetts as the only U.S. state that legalize same-sex marriages following the defeat of Proposition 8 in California and similar proposition in Arizona and Florida.

The California Department of Public Health officials announced it is restoring the words "bride" and "groom" on all marriage license forms issued in California starting Nov. 17.

The move was in response to the clamor of many couple who still prefer the traditional terms instead of the gender-neutral "Party A" and "Party B," introduced when the same-sex marriage was legalized on June 16 to replace the "bride" and "groom" words.

An Austrian man allegedly killed his in-laws when he set their home on fire with a flame-thrower. He then attempted suicide by stabbing himself in the stomach.

Austrian police told reporters that the 48-year-old man poured gasoline in a room in the 84-year-old couple's home before lighting a propane gas bottle and throwing it into the gasoline. The woman was a diabetic amputee and was burned alive. Her husband managed to escape, but his body was found lying on a bench near the couple's home.

An Illinois man is suing a priest for stealing his wife.

Stephen Crane is suing on the grounds that he and his wife, Maureen, went to see the priest, Christopher Floss, at their church for marital counseling.

Local officials in a town near Pittsburgh are accusing a reverend and his wife of running a swingers sex club in a house of worship.

John and Kim Ondrick of Huntingdon Township facilitate nature worship at the Church for Spiritual Humanism, located in a residential area.