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Maine Churches Passing Plate for Gay-Marriage Fight

Rob Quinn — Fri, 25 May 2012 05:05:00 CDT

Up to 200 churches in Maine plan to pass a collection plate on Father's Day to raise funds to fight gay marriage. The state is holding a referendum on legalizing same-sex marriage in November, and the Protect Marriage Maine political action committee is stepping up efforts to raise funds and...

Powell Endorses Gay Marriage, But Not Obama

Rob Quinn — Thu, 24 May 2012 01:20:14 CDT

Colin Powell has come out in favor of same-sex marriage. "I have no problem with it," he told CNN . "In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me...

Charlotte Looking Like Worse and Worse DNC Pick

Mary Papenfuss — Thu, 24 May 2012 01:00:00 CDT

The Democratic National Convention could be meeting on enemy territory come September. The state that flipped for Barack Obama last election, making him the first Democratic presidential candidate to win the state in more than 30 years, is increasingly at odds with the White House. North Carolina just banned gay...

X-Men to Have Comics' First Gay Wedding

Kevin Spak — Tue, 22 May 2012 13:23:05 CDT

First the president embraced gay marriage, and now some perhaps even more powerful people are doing so: The X-Men. In next month's Astonishing X-Men #51 , Canadian X-Man Northstar will tie the knot with longtime boyfriend Kyle Jinadu, Marvel announced today, with a preview in Rolling Stone . Northstar, aka Jean-Paul Beaubier,...

Pastor: Let's Put 'Queers' in Pens Until They Die

Kevin Spak — Mon, 21 May 2012 14:16:19 CDT

North Carolina pastor Charles Worley has an, er, unorthodox suggestion for how to spread God's love to gay people. "Build a great, big, large fence—150 or 100 miles long—put all the lesbians in there. Do the same thing for the queers and the homosexuals, and have that fence...

NAACP Endorses Gay Marriage

Mark Russell — Sun, 20 May 2012 06:23:20 CDT

The NAACP's board endorsed same-sex marriage last night, reports the New York Times, with only two of the group's 64 board members voting against the resolution in what's being seen as a resounding statement of principle, and simultaneous endorsement of President Obama's move to support gay marriage . "The mission of...

Obama Traps Himself With Gay-Marriage 'Contradiction'

John Johnson — Fri, 18 May 2012 11:37:05 CDT

Charles Krauthammer sees a "howling contradiction" in President Obama's new position on gay marriage. It's one thing to have "empathy" for the cause, he writes in the Washington Post , to feel badly for gay friends and acquaintances who can't legally marry. It's quite another to call it the next logical...

Bristol: Stop Bullying Me, Internet

Kevin Spak — Tue, 15 May 2012 10:40:45 CDT

Bristol Palin just learned the hard way that darkness can lurk in Internet comment threads. It seems Palin's post criticizing President Obama's gay-marriage stance upset more than a few people, and they let her know it in no uncertain terms. In a new blog post , spotted by the New York...

Obama Isn't Our 1st Gay President

Kate Schwartz — Tue, 15 May 2012 10:22:24 CDT

Tina Brown would like you to think that our 44th commander in chief is the "First Gay President." Jim Loewen would like you to know that title actually belongs to our country's 15th leader, James Buchanan. After taking a moment to smack Newsweek for the "cheap sensationalism" of its buzzy...