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    Published: 02/4/10

    The (Prayer) Breakfast Club: Obama Does the Lion's Den Again

    By  David Gibson
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    President Obama's address at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday was a given -- the chief executive has been the main speaker since the event began in 1953. But rarely has so much been riding on what in recent years has seemed like a feel-good function for conservative Christians and a chance ...

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    Published: 02/3/10

    Actors Re-enact California Gay Marriage Trial for YouTube

    By  Christopher Weber

    The U.S. Supreme Court blocked video coverage of the trial challenging California's gay marriage ban, but two Los Angeles filmmakers have found a clever way to publicize the proceedings. They've hired actors to re-enact all the arguments and testimony of the trial. In the days after the high court ...

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    Published: 02/2/10

    Top Brass Calls for Repeal of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'

    By  Patricia Murphy
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    Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs Chairman Mike Mullen told members of the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday that they both personally support the repeal of the law banning gays from serving openly in the U.S. military. They then detailed the Pentagon's plans to prepare for ...

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    Published: 02/1/10

    Gayle Haggard: Devoted or Delusional?

    By  Helena Andrews
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    Watching Gayle Haggard, the devoted wife of former evangelist mega star and admitted sexual immoralist Ted Haggard, on ABC's The View this morning I couldn't help but think one thing, Man this lady's got some guts! Or as we might put it around here at WomanUp, some serious big girl panties. There ...

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    Published: 02/1/10

    Senators Clash Over Don't Ask, Don't Tell as Top Pentagon Brass Calls for Repeal

    By  Patricia Murphy
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    Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs Chairman Mike Mullen told members of the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday that they both personally support the repeal of the law banning gays from serving openly in the U.S. military. They then detailed the Pentagon's plans to prepare for ...

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    Published: 02/1/10

    The Super Bowl as Culture-War Battleground

    By  Jeffrey Weiss
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    So here's American culture in 2010: A controversy about whether TV ads shown during the Super Bowl are "fair." Is that an argument that anybody really wants to start? The ads in question are about abortion -- starring just-former college football star Tim Tebow -- and gay dating -- for a company ...

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    Published: 02/1/10

    Tim Tebow and ManCrunch: 2 Hot-Potato Super Bowl Ads

    By  Ria Misra
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    It's a week before kickoff, and two television ads already are causing controversy over what's appropriate to show during the Super Bowl: one ad because it will be aired, the other because it won't. CBS rejected a commercial on Friday for gay dating Web site, ManCrunch, saying it didn't meet ...

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    Published: 01/31/10

    Scott Brown Says Talk of Running for President 'Silly' but 'Humbling'

    By  Bruce Drake
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    It doesn't take long in today's relentless news cycles for a hot new political property to be immediately mentioned as a presidential candidate, but Massachusetts' Senator-elect Scott Brown said Sunday that talk of a race by him in 2012 was "silly" although "extremely humbling." Before taping an ...

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    Published: 01/28/10

    Obama to Democrats: Don't Run for the Hills

    By  Jill Lawrence
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    The country was maybe expecting a chastened president? A chief executive bowed and ready to change course amid 10 percent unemployment, the devastating loss of Ted Kennedy's Senate seat in Massachusetts, and the limbo status of his top priority -- health reform -- after a full year of ...

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    Published: 01/19/10

    Anti-Gay Ugandan Pol Wants to Attend Major Washington Prayer Breakfast

    By  David Gibson

    Guess who's coming to breakfast? The breakfast in question would be the high-profile National Prayer Breakfast set for Feb. 4 at the Washington Hilton ballroom. And the guessing game concerns David Bahati, the Ugandan MP with close ties to the conservative Christian politicos who sponsor the annual ...

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