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Republicans pledge to change tone, not positions
With an eye on the White House in 2016, Republicans spent this week in Hollywood mapping a path to a resurgence — determining how to streamline the primary process and close their deficit with Democrats among key voter blocs such as single women and...
Tags: Defense of Marriage Act, Barack Obama, Social Issues, Minority Groups, Parties and Movements
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Mormonism and the discussion of a woman's place
The newer, smaller and more centrally organized a religion is, the less prone it is to reformed versions breaking away. It also helps if the religion's followers form an insular group, to one extent or another, away from the tug of societal trends....
Tags: Religious Events, Religion and Belief, Christianity, Roman Catholicism, Minority Groups
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California courts familiar with gay parent issues
SAN FRANCISCO -- When the California Supreme Court struck down a same-sex marriage ban in 2008, the majority ruling reflected a series of decisions the court had already reached in disputes involving gay parents. Gay rights lawyers said this week...
Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Twins, Gays and Lesbians, Social Issues, Kamala D. Harris
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California, late to the gay marriage altar
California finds itself in an unaccustomed place these days: behind the curve. Another state, Rhode Island, and two more countries, France and New Zealand, were just added to the steadily growing list of places where same-sex marriage will receive full...
Tags: Social Issues, Minority Groups, Voting, Elections, Washington, DC
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GOP rejects gay marriage, asks Supreme Court to uphold Prop. 8
Republican leaders unanimously approved a resolution Friday urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold Proposition 8, the measure under court review that forbids same-sex marriage in California. The Republican National Committee “affirms its...
Tags: Defense of Marriage Act, Ron Paul, Barack Obama, Social Issues, Family
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Three justices' concern over gay parenting surprises experts
WASHINGTON — During last week's Supreme Court arguments on gay marriage, Justice Antonin Scalia asserted that "there's considerable disagreement" among experts over whether "raising a child in a single-sex family is harmful or not." Two other...
Tags: Trials, Social Issues, Minority Groups, Research, Family
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The Second City mainstage cast on its 101st revue, 'Let Them Eat Chaos'
For RedEyeAs hard as we try, we can't always control how we—collectively and as individuals—are perceived or what our path through the world will be. Those twists and turns form the through-line of The Second City's 101st mainstage revue, "Let Them...Tags: Defense of Marriage Act, Personal Weapon Control, Bleep (euphemism), Travel Alerts, Same-Sex Marriage
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Seeking marriage equality
Between now and July, the Supreme Court is expected to rule on two cases dealing with same-sex marriage: one testing the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8, the other involving the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage for federal...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Defense of Marriage Act, Social Issues, Minority Groups, Family
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Momentous decisions
Pity the Supremes. Not Diana Ross, Florence Ballard and Mary Wilson but Alito, Breyer, Roberts, Thomas, Sotomayor, Ginsburg, Kagan, Kennedy and Scalia. After two days of testimony last week on two separate issues of gay rights -- or as we should think of...Tags: The Supremes (music group), Crime, Law and Justice, Defense of Marriage Act, Trials, Human Rights
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McManus: SCOTUS-induced chaos on gay marriage?
If the Supreme Court decides the two gay marriage cases it heard last week the way most court watchers believe it will, expect legal and political chaos. The court seems ready to strike down the federal Defense of Marriage Act, while ruling quite...
Tags: Defense of Marriage Act, Social Issues, Parties and Movements, Minority Groups, Social Security
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Letters: Gay marriage vs. the alternatives
Re "Court looks split on gay marriage," March 27, and "Justices seem to side with gay couples," March 28 I write not as a former U.S. Supreme Court clerk (Justice Charles Whittaker and Chief Justice Earl Warren) to express my views about the legal...
Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Gays and Lesbians, Family, Same-Sex Marriage, Marriage
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Fear of gay-marriage backlash far-fetched
Even U.S. Supreme Court justices care what people think about them, experts say. In their current same-sex marriage cases they fear a big public backlash if they overreach. But history shows such fears to be greatly exaggerated when a controversial...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, The Supremes (music group), Defense of Marriage Act, Gallup, Inc., Internal Revenue Service
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Original site for Proposition 8 (California, 2010) topic gallery.