GOP sweep: Big governor victories in Virginia, N.J.
WASHINGTON Independents who swept Barack Obama to a historic 2008 victory broke big for Republicans on Tuesday as the GOP wrested political control from Democrats in Virginia and New Jersey, a troubling sign for the president and his party heading ...
 6.4K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 99.0 Activists rally to OK gay nuptials
SALEM Gay rights backers kicked off a voter education campaign Monday aimed at eventually overturning Oregon s ban on same-sex marriage. Evan Wolfson of the national gay rights group Freedom to Marry said Monday he thinks hearts and minds are chan...
3.4K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 976.0 Who will save the GOP?
Can South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, former Congressman Joe Scarborough or former Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole save the GOP from itself? The Republican Party leadership handed the torch to those with the largest microphone right-wing conse...
3.2K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 99.0 From Anglican to Catholic
VATICAN CITY (AP) The Vatican announced surprise plans today to make it easier for Anglicans to convert, reaching out to those who are disaffected by the election of female and gay bishops to join the Catholic Church s conservative ranks. Pope Bene...
6.9K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 165.0 We won t back down
WASHINGTON Rainbow flags fluttered above the crowds near the White House as tens of thousands of gay rights supporters rallied to demand that President Barack Obama keep his promises to end discrimination against gays and also let them serve openly...
4.1K - Oct. 12, 2009; scored 288.0 Field Poll: Brown has big lead in California govenor's race
SACRAMENTO, Calif. A new Field Poll shows California Attorney General Jerry Brown with a strong lead in next year s race for governor, even before he s declared himself a candidate and despite months of campaigning by his Democratic rival and three...
3.8K - Oct. 8, 2009; scored 99.0 One Lutheran does not represent all
For the past week headlines in print and electronic media to the effect of Lutherans approve gay clergy or Lutherans endorse gay marriage have caused no small confusion. Having served our area as a Lutheran pastor since 2001, I think that a brief...
2.1K - Sep. 1, 2009; scored 157.0 Study finds widening generation gap in U.S.
WASHINGTON - From cell phones and texting to religion and manners, younger and older Americans see the world differently, creating the largest generation gap since the tumultuous years of the 1960s and the culture clashes over Vietnam, civil rights a...
4.7K - Jun. 29, 2009; scored 99.0 Rick Warren tells breakaway Episcopalians to love all
BEDFORD, Texas (AP) Christians must show love to all people, even if they don t support their values, evangelical megachurch pastor Rick Warren said Tuesday to breakaway Episcopalians and other Anglicans splitting from their national church over ga...
4.3K - Jun. 27, 2009; scored 199.0 Gay support ebbs
Rep. Barney Frank, the first member of Congress to be re-elected after coming out, is right in telling gays not to abandon the president. As Frank put it, The notion that if someone doesn t agree with you 100 percent, then you shouldn t be supportiv...
2.9K - Jun. 25, 2009; scored 189.0 Passport rules change for gay couples
BOSTON (AP) - Gay couples traveling overseas can now show passports that feature their married names, letting them take advantage of a little-noticed revision to State Department regulations that critics had feared would undermine the federal Defense...
4.3K - Jun. 20, 2009; scored 346.0 Obama extends benefits for gay federal workers
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama, whose gay and lesbian supporters have grown frustrated with his slow movement on their priorities, is extending benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees but stopping short of a guarantee of full health i...
3.0K - Jun. 17, 2009; scored 223.0 Truth from beauty
It's an odd day when Donald Trump becomes your hero. But that's the new light I see him in, standing beside Miss California as she withstood the worst kind of public incivility, just for giving an honest answer to a question about a fundamental insti...
3.0K - May. 19, 2009; scored 249.0 AP sources: Obama considering six for high court
WASHINGTON (AP) - Focusing on specific candidates for the nation's highest court, President Barack Obama is considering a diverse list dominated by women and Hispanics. The six names confirmed as being under review by Obama include three judges, two ...
5.8K - May. 14, 2009; scored 157.0 No marriage license for Russian lesbians
MOSCOW (AP) - Supporters considered it a historic moment: two radiant women applied for a marriage license in a Moscow government office, claiming to be the first same-sex female couple to try to marry in Russia. But a flustered-looking official deni...
0.7K - May. 12, 2009; scored 157.0 Kemp's warning
I've taken showers, Jack Kemp loved to say, with the kind of people most Republicans have never met. By the time Kemp died this month at 73, he was no longer a force in the Republican Party, but the warning contained in his joke resonates more than...
3.3K - May. 11, 2009; scored 99.0 Lynch tells NH: I'll make 'the best decision I can'
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - The legalization of gay marriage in New Hampshire hinges on the next move of Gov. John Lynch, who remains uncommitted but has said he believes the word marriage should be reserved for the union of a man and a woman. I'm going t...
1.1K - May. 7, 2009; scored 215.0 Iowa is third state to legalizes gay nuptials
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The only gay couple who were legally wed in Iowa are looking forward to getting some company. Iowa county clerks were to begin processing same-sex marriage applications today, following the Iowa Supreme Court's ruling on April...
1.2K - Apr. 27, 2009; scored 228.0 Decade-long battle to allow gay marriage in Conn. will end with governor's expected signature
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - A decade-long battle for marriage equality in Connecticut ended when the General Assembly voted to update the state's marriage laws to conform with a landmark court ruling allowing gay and lesbian couples to tie the knot. It fe...
1.2K - Apr. 23, 2009; scored 637.0 Oregon gay rights backers eye 2012 marriage vote
SALEM - Despite recent victories on same-sex marriage in Vermont and Iowa, gay rights backers are taking a go-slow approach in trying to overturn Oregon's 2004 constitutional ban on gay marriage. Basic Rights Oregon said Thursday it will wait until 2...
3.4K - Apr. 10, 2009; scored 1000.0 | 
