The Family First lobby group has published a poll which finally concedes what all other polls in the past year have shown - that more New Zealanders now support gay marriage than oppose it.

The proposed redefinition of marriage now before Parliament seems to have produced two major responses, writes Ron Hay.

The return of a Pride Parade to Auckland has been declared a fabulous success.

Opponents of a law change to allow same-sex marriage are stepping up their campaign, targeting MPs they feel may change their vote at the bill's next hurdle.

There is, if you'll pardon the expression, something rather queer about the gay marriage controversy.

Conservative Party leader Colin Craig says homosexuality is a choice and society is right to discriminate against gay relationships.

Terms such as mother, father, husband and wife could disappear from the law if gay marriage is legalised, according to Family First director Bob McCoskrie.

Family First is expected to present a petition containing more than 72,000 signatures to a select committee hearing submissions on legalising gay marriage today.

The absence of out gay players perpetuates the appearance that rugby is a game for "red-blooded" heterosexual men, writes Dean Knight, and reinforces the barriers to participation by gays at all levels of the game.

The MP behind a law change to legalise gay marriage has slammed the "dishonest" argument by opponents that her bill will pave the way to polygamous relationships.

Family First national director Bob McCoskrie says the push for same-sex marriage in New Zealand is a stepping-stone to legalising polygamy.

New polls show Kiwis back the terminally ill's right to die, think same-sex marriages should be legal and are largely happy with the immigration rate.

A team of New Zealand celebrities has banded together in a video called "Marriage Equality Matters" to promote same sex marriage.

The question before us today is why should we, as a same-sex couple, be allowed to marry?

Hobbit star Sir Ian McKellen has spoken out with the hope that he will one day have the chance to return to "Middle Earth" and get married.

When Mike King used Twitter to help find a high-profile sports star to promote the marriage equality bill, you could almost see the tumbleweed roll by.

All this uncertainty and potential for costly litigation highlights there are both intended and unintended consequences of changing the definition of marriage, writes Bob McCoskrie.

TV reporter Matty McLean has made a personal plea to Parliament to legalise gay marriage so he can fulfil his father's wish to attend his wedding.

If that change really is needed, then so be it, writes Andrew Geddis. "But I think the Law Society is wrong and the bill as it stands would not require anything new of any religious group."

The debate on same-sex marriage has stepped up with a former MP comparing the proposed law change to "apartheid".

A Whangarei school teacher dismissed for speaking out against what he called discriminatory comments by his catholic school principal is a keynote speaker at a national marriage equality conference.