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 121.0 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 1000.0 Consistent cultural standards are needed
Arla Ford Raising emotionally healthy, well-adjusted children requires relentless commitment to providing love, acceptance and security, along with the discipline of limits and responsibility. The parental tasks that contribute to well-regulated chil...
4.4K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 166.0 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 159.0 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 266.0 Kidnapped girl returns after 18 years
PLACERVILLE, Calif. A man suspected of snatching an 11-year-old girl and hiding her for nearly two decades in his backyard faced a Friday court appearance, as the woman s family reunited with their daughter and met the two children fathered by her ...
8.3K - Aug. 28, 2009; scored 143.0 Jakes counsels patience in economic 'sorrows'
CHARLESTON, W.Va . (AP) As the economy continues to grind away at jobs, homes and lifetimes' of savings, Bishop Thomas D. Jakes looks back from his position as one of America's most successful preachers and re-members his own hard times. T.D. Jake...
7.1K - Aug. 15, 2009; scored 121.0 Must guys be guys?
Who knew the now-infamous C Street House could serve as the set for Sex and the City ? The titillating tales just keep flowing from the congressional house of Christian fellowship. First there was resident Nevada Sen. John Ensign s revelation about ...
3.2K - Jul. 30, 2009; scored 121.0 Finally, a bipartisan topic: Sex scandals
Gene Lyons, Columnist With respect to Gov. Mark Sanford, it s probably always a mistake for a Puritan to visit Latin America. A handsome cardiologist s son, he married money, went into real estate, then politics. Like many South Carolina aristocrats,...
4.2K - Jul. 7, 2009; scored 184.0 Stocks and the single girl
In the late 70s, it was hard to pick up a magazine that didn t have a story about testing your sexual IQ - or your boyfriend s. And for a while it seemed that one best-selling book after another was a sexual textbook. The Hite Report and Masters a...
3.2K - Jun. 24, 2009; scored 236.0 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 361.0 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 121.0 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 201.0 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 143.0 Phelps ready to return to pool after suspension
BALTIMORE Michael Phelps heard all the jokes, dealt with all the criticism, read all the tabloid reports about his supposed party-boy lifestyle. Now, it s time to get even, in the one place where he has the last word. The pool. After resisting the ...
6.7K - May. 6, 2009; scored 121.0 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 301.0 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 256.0 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 410.0 Court declares gay marriage ban unconstitutional
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The Iowa Supreme Court says the state's same-sex marriage ban violates the constitutional rights of gay and lesbian couples, making it the third state where gay marriage is legal. In a unanimous ruling issued today, the court ...
0.9K - Apr. 3, 2009; scored 161.0 Vermont gay marriage bill in hands of state House
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - A bill that would legalize same-sex marriage in Vermont is in the hands of state House lawmakers. Last month the state Senate overwhelmingly approved similar legislation. It's expected the bill will pass the House during the vo...
0.8K - Apr. 2, 2009; scored 143.0 | 
