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A second federal judge in California has struck down a law denying benefits to partners in a gay marriage.
Scores of Maine churches will pass the collection plate a second time at Sunday services on Father's Day to kick off a fundraising campaign for the lead opposition group to November's ballot question asking voters to legalize same-sex marriages.
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is beginning to express some confidence that the president's historic, yet politically risky, embrace of gay marriage may not hurt him in the November election.
NAACP President Benjamin Jealous said Monday he hopes the group's resolution supporting same-sex marriage will encourage blacks to support marriage equality as a civil right if the question is put to voters on the ballot in Maryland or other states.
When President Obama announced his support for gay marriage, supporters and pundits declared it symbolic of a historic shift in American attitudes. But as the attention fades, the fact remains that voters in 31 states have rejected gay marriage and more are lining up to do so.
The NAACP passed a resolution Saturday endorsing same-sex marriage as a civil right and opposing any efforts "to codify discrimination or hatred into the law."
President Barack Obama's May 9 announcement that he favors same sex marriage led to a huge spike on YouTube, according to data assembled by the popular video sharing site.
President Barack Obama's support for gay marriage has emboldened activists and politicians on both sides of the issue, setting off a flurry of political activity in a number of states and serving as a rallying point in others where gay marriage votes are being held this fall.
Manny Pacquiao says he loves and supports gays and lesbians, even though he does not approve of gay marriage.
President Barack Obama's shift to support gay marriage is energizing young Hispanic voters who have been working side-by-side with gay activists in their push for immigration reform. The alliance has been growing nationwide and helping dispel what many say is an outdated notion that Hispanics are less tolerant of gays than the general public.
Rhode Island's governor on Monday declared that the state will recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere, giving gay couples the same rights as heterosexual ones when it comes to health insurance and a slew of other benefits.
On the upper eastern edge of Ohio lies a valley built on the sweat of the working class, where steel mills sit mostly shuttered but a once-struggling Chevy plant endures. It is a place filled with union halls and blue-collar families for whom the auto bailout meant survival, delivered by a president many here see as their savior.
In revealing his support for same-sex marriage, President Barack Obama attributed his change in thinking to a series of key conversations and experiences. Talking to members of his staff and gay service members in committed relationships made it more difficult to justify why they should not have the right to marry, he said.
President Barack Obama delighted his liberal base by coming down on the side of gay marriage, but he cheered the opposition, too.
Like many black Americans, Dorsey Jackson does not believe in gay marriage, but he wasn't disillusioned when Barack Obama became the first president to support it. The windows of his suburban Philadelphia barbershop still display an "Obama 2012" placard and another that reads "We've Got His Back."
A lesbian who sought a North Carolina marriage license with her partner and was rejected under a state law banning same-sex marriage was arrested with another person Thursday after they refused to leave a government office where several gay and lesbian couples were turned away.
Opponents of gay marriage have been aggressive — and in most cases successful — in passing measures to block gay marriage in the states expected to be at the heart of the race for the White House. Actions in the past decade in the states considered to be as 2012 toss-ups:
At a birthplace of the gay rights movement, patrons of New York City's Stonewall Inn said they felt like they were living history. In Wyoming, the mother of a man beaten to death because of his sexuality said words couldn't express her gratitude. An 82-year-old photographer who chronicled protests in the 1960s called it "a new dawn."
President Barack Obama's support for gay marriage adds a new layer of complexity for voters — especially independents — in battleground states that will decide the race for the White House.
Cuban President Raul Castro's daughter congratulated Barack Obama on Thursday for his support for gay marriage, but said his comments are just a first step toward changing policy.
President Barack Obama's announcement that he supports gay marriage brings the presidential stamp of approval to the divisive social issue but does not carry swift policy changes along with it.
House Speaker John Boehner says he's staying focused on jobs and the economy in the 2012 elections and not President Barack Obama's support for gay marriage.
President Barack Obama says he'd already decided to come out for gay marriage before Vice President Joe Biden publicly endorsed it.
President Barack Obama's campaign is using his support of gay marriage to draw a contrast with Republican rival Mitt Romney.
Replacements Limited's Stand for Gay Marriage Has a CostIn the months leading up to North Carolina’s vote this month to ban gay marriage, most of the state’s business leaders were conspicuously silent. While some executives spoke out against it as individuals, not one Fortune 500 company based in North Carolina, includin …
My hubby and I were asked this question the very first night of our pre-marital counseling. We had very ambiguous answers... "Marriage is two people loving each other..." "Marriage is two people who want to build a life together..." Our therapist smiled, gave us a few minutes to …
Maine Churches to Fundraise Against Gay Marriage on Father’s Day | TheBlaze.comPORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Scores of Maine churches will pass the collection plate a second time at Sunday services on Father‘s Day to kick off a fundraising campaign for the lead opposition group to November’s ballot question asking voters to legalize same-sex marr …
New Polls Suggest President Obama's 'Evolution' Moving The Needle On Gay Marriageseveral new polls suggest that the cause of marriage equality has been given a nice head of steam by Obama’s evolution revolution. A just-released Public Policy Polling survey shows a significant shift among Maryland voters’ support for that state’s same-sex …
VIDEO: Family Research Council Vice President Tom McClusky Compares Gay Marriage to SuicideFamily Research Council Vice President Tom McClusky told an audience at the 'Watchmen on the Wall' conference, today, that people should not support the right of same-sex couples to marry just as they should not help a depressed neighbor commit suicide.
Obama's gay marriage support brings change in attitudes among African-AmericansAn endorsement of same-sex marriage was long considered risky for President Obama because of the expected backlash from the African-American community. Few seemed to consider the alternative, which polling suggests is playing out instead: Rather than changing their minds about …
Theresa May records video in support of gay marriage | World news | guardian.co.ukTheresa May, the Conservative home secretary, has pledged her personal support for gay marriage, becoming the most senior politician yet to take part in a cross-party video campaign supporting a change to the law.
The Rev. Madison Shockley: Black Community Poised to Follow Obama's Leadership on Gay Rights - Truthdigy The Rev. Madison Shockley Two weeks after Barack Obama became the first U.S. president to declare support for marriage equality, we are still gauging the impact of his statement. At first blush, some regarded his evolution as a nonevent, since his real position was so w …
Can Science Vanquish the Small-Mindedness and Bigotry of Social Conservatism?Growing public support for gay rights, including gay marriage, is the latest example of the moral liberalism that has transformed advanced industrial societies in the last few generations. The social traditionalists who claimed to be a “moral majority” in the United …
NC Pastor: Put an Electric Fence Around Gays and Lesbians to Make Sure They 'Die Out' ~~~ Abuse Children...he officially overtook Sean Harris as the Most Offensive Pastor in the state of North Carolina. In Harris' hot mess hate sermon, as we mentioned before, he encouraged church-goers to vote against marriage equality, make "butch" daughters "smell like girls" and punch effeminate …
Colin Powell: I Have 'No Problem With' Gay Marriage (VIDEO)Former Secretary of State Colin Powell became the latest public official to back gay marriage on Wednesday. "I have no problem with it," he said on CNN, "and it was the Congress that imposed Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, though it was certainly my position and my recommen …
Dear Barack Obama, look what you have done.A lot of people didn’t give this president enough credit for knowing exactly where the country is going on the issue of gay marriage, and for having the guts and the vision to lead in such way. The beltway media was spitting the usual ignorant crap and many of PBO’s …
Media says Obama evolved, not flip-flopped, on major issues through the years - Yahoo! NewsPresident Barack Obama has evolved — again. And again. And again. In the week after the president voiced his sudden personal support for gay marriage, a move which two-thirds of Americans have concluded was primarily motivated by politics, liberal bloggers and media p …
Outrage As Social Studies Posts On Facebook "Being Gay Is The Same as Murder"A Kansas middle school teacher has caused fury afterwriting on Facebook that being gay is the same as murder. Jack Conkling, a social studies teacher at Prairie MiddleSchool and baseball coach at Buhler High School, madethe comments in a lengthy rant on the social network …
Obama's Oprah Problem She didn’t see it coming. One day, Oprah Winfrey turned around, and her nationally syndicated show was sliding in the ratings, and her audience was fleeing en masse. And it happened soon after a day she thought was one of the best in her life. Isn’t that how all …
Actions Speak Louder Than Words: How the Obama Administration Has Worked Behind the Scenes to Advance Marriage EqualityThe Obama administration has a pretty good record on LGBT issues, but it has also had a sometimes contentious relationship with gay rights activists. Even in the wake of Obama's “evolution” on marriage last week, some critics seized on his statement that the states …
NAACP Endorses Marriage Equality 'Unequivocally'Today marks another step forward — and trouble for the National Organization of Marriage's plan to drive a wedge between LGBT voters and black voters. The NAACP has endorsed marriage equality, as first reported by Senior Vice President Maxim Thorne on Twitter. The NAACP Boar …
The Only True Way to Save Marriage From ObamaBy Joe Conason: For honoring his conscience on the issue of marriage equality, President Obama earned angry rebukes from all quarters on the right...In this historic moment for human rights, listening to the likes of Ailes (now on his third marriage) and Limbaugh (currently ma …
Race Issues Return With Rev. Jeremiah WrightThe renewed focus on President Barack Obama’s controversial pastor is reviving the issue that neither presidential campaign wants to discuss directly: race. But the differing reactions Thursday from Obama aides and Romney officials to revelations about a planned …
Morons Disappointed to Learn Most Babies Born in America Are Not WhiteWhen the US Census bureau announced this morning that for the first time in US history, the majority of babies born in 2011 were not white, naturally my first thought was to see what paranoids and dum dums on the internet were saying about it, because I'm nothing if not a chron …
Same-sex marriage: Empathy or right?Problem is: It’s a howling contradiction to leave up to the states an issue Obama now says is a right. And beyond being intellectually untenable, Obama’s embrace of the more hard-line “rights” argument compels him logically to see believers in traditiona …
Weapons of Mass Distraction: @BarackObama Has No ClothesEach week, the Obama administration (which has become indistinguishable from the Obama campaign) becomes more reminiscent of the old children's story, "The Emperor's New Clothes," with the national media elites playing the members of the king's fawning court, pretending tha …
Senate Takes Significant Step With Domestic Partnership Benefits BillYesterday, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee passed legislation that extends health insurance and other benefits to the same-sex partners of federal employees.
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