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Jeb Bush Says Only Traditional Marriage Gives Kids A Chance Out Of Poverty
During a CBN interview, Jeb Bush suggested that the only way to fight poverty in America was to defend traditional marriage.
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Ben Carson Says The President Doesn’t Have To Obey Supreme Court Ruling On Gay Marriage
GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson believes if he becomes president, that he can ignore Supreme Court decisions he does not agree with.
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Conservative Christians Demand Liberal Justices Recuse Themselves From Gay Marriage Case
Some religious leaders are demanding that liberal justices Ginsburg and Kagan recuse themselves from an upcoming gay marriage case,
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More Than 60 Percent Of Americans Now Publicly Support Marriage Equality
Support for gay marriage has climbed to 61 percent, compared to just 35 percent of Americans who are still opposed to marriage equality.
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Amicus Tells Supreme Court that Marriage Equality Will Cause 900,000 Abortions
A hysterical claim backed up by zero facts equals the perfect Republican argument against marriage equality
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Hillary Clinton Defends Same-Sex Marriage As A Constitutional Right
Hillary Clinton hopes the Supreme Court will come down on the side of same-sex couples being guaranteed the constitutional right to marry.
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Direct Democracy Fail Allows “Kill The Gays” Measure To Advance in California
Before any American thinks this will never fly in the Golden State, just reconsider that because of California’s direct democracy cockup, the religious right, Mormons, and Catholics from around the nation poured hundreds of millions of dollars into the campaign to pass that other fanatical ballot initiative Prop 8.
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Corporations Suddenly Don’t Have Religious Freedom if They Support Marriage Equality
Corporations apparently have religious freedom if they are against contraception, but they have no right to speak up about marriage equality
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Heartless Texas Attorney General Fights To Invalidate The State’s Only Same-Sex Marriage
Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) is working to invalidate the marriage of a lesbian couple, one of whom has cancer.
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Alabama Begins Issuing Marriage Licenses To Same Sex Couples
On Monday, the state of Alabama began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. A defiant Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice, Roy Moore, demanded that probate judges refuse to grant the licenses, but was unsuccessful.
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The Fight To Legalize Gay Marriage May Return To Supreme Court
It’s past time for the issue of gay marriage to be decided at the national, not just the local, level. The progress witnessed by the number of states that have approved same-sex marriage in recent years has been encouraging, but this should never have been a state’s rights sort of issue.
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A Great Time For Gay Marriage? Not So Fast!
There are two issues guaranteed to get the wing-nuts to the polls even if they have to crawl on their bellies over barbed wire in a typhoon. The first is anything to do with not being able to let their kids under ten play with howitzers; the second voting magnet is anything to do with the possibility that Bob and Bruce might marry.
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North Carolina Could Join the Ranks of States That Recognize Marriage Equality
It’s time for the Supreme Court to officially recognize that marriage equality triumphed over homophobia.
Nancy Pelosi Celebrates The Latest Victory For Marriage Equality
Today marks an important day for marriage equality in the United States as the Supreme Court refused to review several circuit court rulings that strike down state bans on same sex marriage.
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American Support For Marriage Equality Reaches All-Time High In Latest Gallup Poll
Gallup released a new poll on Wednesday showing that support for same-sex marriage has now reached its highest level since the polling firm first started tracking this issue in 1996.
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Gay Marriage Ban Struck Down in Deep Red Idaho
U.S. magistrate Candy Dale struck down Idaho’s gay marriage ban on Tuesday.
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Kentucky Argues Gay Marriage Ban Is Needed To Ensure Existence Of Human Race
Lawyers for Kentucky have crafted a bizarre argument saying the state’s gay marriage ban is necessary for procreation and human survival.
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Marriage Equality is Stealing Rights from God? Really?
There is a real standard, of course, and it’s not God. It is called the United States Constitution, and it doesn’t mention God. That is the standard here, not the Bible
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Wedge Issue Completely Gone As Majority Of People In Ohio Now Support Marriage Equality
Quinnipiac University released a poll on Monday that shows support for marriage equality in Ohio hitting 50%.
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Virginia’s Same-Sex Marriage Ban Ruled Unconstitutional by Federal Judge
Judge Arenda Wright Allen demolished every Republican argument, ruling that “the right to marry is inseparable from our rights to privacy and intimate association.”
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Anti Marriage Equality Lawyers Try To Fool Supreme Court With Sham Study
The lawyers defending Utah’s ban on same-sex marriage before the Supreme Court of the United States don’t have the law on their side, nor do they have valid facts.
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Gay Marriage Scares Oklahoma Rep So Much He Proposes Banning All Marriages
Republican lawmaker Mike Turner is floating the idea of making marriage illegal in the state of Oklahoma.
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The Supreme Court Disappoints With Utah Decision
Monday’s order by the Supreme Court to “suspend” same sex marriage in Utah is, to put it mildly, disappointing.
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State Democratic Chair Weds his Partner as Dozens of Gay Couples Marry in Utah
In Salt Lake City, Utah State Senator and State Democratic party chair, Jim Dabakis marries his long time partner.
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The Republican Plan to Violate the First Amendment by Establishing Religion
Tim Huelskamp’s Federal Marriage Amendment is not only bad politics bad religion, it’s against the law of the land
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Justice Kennedy Swats Down Proposition 8 Again
The religious bigots who lacked an argument found out this week they lacked standing as well but like frat boys they couldn’t let no mean no
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Religious Right Says Supreme Court and Constitution Are Irrelevant
Apparently God already decided what constitutes marriage and he wins 1-0. Of course, they can’t show you that part of the Constitution
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Rush Limbaugh Compares Marriage Equality for 9 Million Americans to Animal Marriage
Rush Limbaugh lived down to expectations today by claiming that the 14 Amendment doesn’t cover same sex or animal marriage.
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80 Republicans Sign Supreme Court Brief in Support of Marriage Equality
More than 80 Republicans have signed a brief which will be submitted to the Supreme Court in support of Marriage Equality
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The Right Tries and Fails to turn Marriage Into a Religious Institution
Whether bible-loving opponents of same-sex marriage like it or not, marriage is not a religious institution.