The Republican campaign manager who helped win a second term for President George W Bush on his anti-gay marriage platform has been accused of hypocrisy after he announced that he is homosexual.
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Republican who helped Bush campaign against gay marriage is homosexual
Monday, August 30th, 2010Court halts Calif. gay marriages pending appeal
Monday, August 16th, 2010SAN FRANCISCO – A federal appeals court put same-sex weddings in California on hold indefinitely Monday while it considers the constitutionality of the state’s gay marriage ban.
California gay marriage can resume next week: judge
Friday, August 13th, 2010A federal judge ruled on Thursday that gay marriages could resume next week in California while his landmark ruling last week that overturned a ban on same-sex matrimony is appealed.
Judge lifts stay, but same-sex marriages still on hold
Thursday, August 12th, 2010Gay and lesbian couples in California who were breathlessly poised to get married this morning had their hopes dashed when the federal judge who struck down the state’s ban on same-sex marriage lifted his stay on those nuptials – but simultaneously ruled that his order not take effect for six more days.
Record Number of Americans Receiving Food Stamp Benefits
Thursday, August 5th, 2010The number of Americans receiving federal aid through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as food stamps, soared to a record 40.8 million in May, according to government data released shortly before the Senate voted to cut billions from the food stamps budget.
Material girl Michelle Obama is a modern-day Marie Antoinette on a glitzy Spanish vacatio
Thursday, August 5th, 2010
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First Lady Michelle Obama smiles while she visits Marbella, southern Spain.
Sacrifice is something that many Americans are becoming all too familiar with during this economic downturn. It was a key theme in President Obama’s inaugural address to the nation, and he’s referenced it numerous times when lecturing the country on how to get back on its feet.
Ruling against Prop. 8 could lead to federal precedent on gay marriage
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010Judge says the same-sex marriage ban was rooted in ‘moral disapproval’ and violates constitutional rights to equal protection and due process. Opponents vow to appeal all the way to the Supreme Court.
Jerusalem gay pride: what do the locals think?
Sunday, August 1st, 2010The holiest city has traditionally seen widespread resistance to the annual parade, but are attitudes changing?
Evangelical Lutheran pulpits welcome non-celibate gay pastors
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010SAN FRANCISCO – Seven pastors who work in the San Francisco Bay area and were barred from serving in the nation’s largest Lutheran group because of a policy that required gay clergy to be celibate are being welcomed into the denomination.
US rabbis: Accept homosexuals
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010Dozens of Orthodox leaders publish statement saying that although Judaism ‘cannot give its blessing and imprimatur to Jewish religious same-sex commitment ceremonies and weddings,’ community must still accept ‘practicing’ gay couples and their children into synagogues, schools