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By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsCOLORADO SPRINGS (April 24) -- Jim Daly is certain there is "a right way and a wrong way" to live one's life, and it's all about Jesus Christ and a literal reading of the Bible. But the new leader of the evangelical ministry Focus on the Family isn't going to get in your face if you disagree. At a time when the conservative movement is dominated by raucous tea party demonstrations for lower taxes and smaller government, Daly seems oddly disconnected. "Don't know much about it, to be honest with you," he said, even though a recent poll showed that many tea party supporters are social ...
Gay-Marriage Backers Lose Bid for Spot on Calif. Ballot
By Scott Martelle - AOL NewsLOS ANGELES (April 12) -- Gay-rights advocates' push to qualify a November ballot initiative legalizing same-sex marriage in California has fallen short, as it failed to gather the 700,000 petition signatures required by today's deadline. The group Restore Equality 2010 had sought to repeal California's controversial Proposition 8, which voters approved in November 2008 in response to a California Supreme Court ruling that gays and lesbians have the right to marry under the state constitution. Proposition 8 changed the state constitution to define marriage as only between a man and a ...
Testimony Ends in California Same-Sex Marriage Case
By David Sessions - Politics DailyTestimony in the legal challenge to California's Proposition 8 ended Wednesday with attorneys for the gay couples who are plaintiffs in the case expressing confidence the judge will rule in their favor, the Los Angeles Times reports. Defenders of Proposition 8 -- a ballot measure passed by voters in November 2008 that limited marriage to opposite-sex couples -- conceded that they may have to wait for a higher court to uphold the state's ban on gay marriage. Vaughn Walker, the judge in the case, is a Republican with libertarian views who is expected to favor the challengers. He could rule as ...
$2.6 Trillion Worth of Disasters
By Zubin Jelveh - AOL News(Dec. 31) – If you've sipped at all from the certifiable torrent of retrospectives that have appeared in the past few weeks, you've been reminded why the 2000s were a period we'd all surely like to forget. This was a decade the started with a recession, terrorist attacks and two wars, then ended with a more severe recession, a thwarted terrorist attack – and the same two wars. In between, we endured disasters that killed thousands and cost billions, watched the Internet wreak its transformative havoc and witnessed the coarsening of both our popular culture and our politics. ...
Opinion: A Practical Guide to the Next Decade
By David Fagin - AOL News(Dec. 31) – So, we've said our goodbyes to the first decade of the 21st century. One that fell far short of almost everyone's predictions. Instead of peace, prosperity and flying cars, we have two wars, a global economy in tatters and cars that not only can't fly, but can't run on wind power, either. Perhaps the main reason we've failed to achieve these goals is that we set our sights too high. However, we never quit. So, in keeping with our interminable spirit, I've put together a list of things we'd all like to see happen in the next 10 years, along with a list of what we can more ...
Wedding Bells Ring Out for Mexico City's Gays
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailySuddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, Mexico City has become the gay capital of the Americas. It happened on Monday night, when the capital's assembly voted to legalize same-sex marriage, making the city the first in Latin America to do so and propelling it to the vanguard of gay trailblazers in the Western Hemisphere. It was a stunning vote by any measure. This happened in the heart of Latin America where homosexuality is an abomination and "maricón" and "pata" are among the most odious words you can hurl at anyone. This is the land of machismo where swishy boys are condemned to mockery and ...
Same-Sex Marriage Bill Clears New Jersey Senate Committee
By David Sessions - Politics DailyIn a meeting that lasted over six hours and ran late Monday night, the judiciary committee of the New Jersey state senate narrowly approved a bill that would grant same-sex couples the right to marry, PolitickerNJ reports. The bill cleared the committee, 7-6, and will now be deliberated in the full senate beginning on Thursday. The bill's passage is far from certain as the vote is expected to be close and will likely not follow partisan lines. Two Democrats on the judiciary committee voted against the measure and one Republican supported it. ...
Opinion: New Approach Needed to Advance Gay Rights
By not in system - AOL News(Dec. 3) - In the immediate aftermath of the passage of California's Proposition 8 last fall -- where voters amended the state's constitution to recognize only marriages between one man and one woman -- there was a lot of finger-pointing in the gay community, but no bloodletting. Leaders of all the major gay organizations kept their jobs, including the leader of the one organization dedicated to promoting gay marriage and the head of the leading gay rights group in the Golden State. Well, Patrick Sammon, head of Log Cabin Republicans, did announce his retirement, but he was resigning for ...
Did Texas' Same-Sex Amendment Accidently Outlaw Marriage?
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyIn approving an amendment to its constitution prohibiting gay marriage four years ago, Texas may have inadvertently outlawed all marriages in the state. And that could have implications for next year's race for attorney general. The controversy stems from two snippets of phrasing voters opted to add to the state's constitution in 2005. The first was: "Marriage in this state shall consist only of the union of one man and one woman." It's the second provision, though -- "This state or a political subdivision of this state may not create or recognize any legal status identical or similar to ...
Surprised About New Hampshire? Don't Be, Just Ask Iowa
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyWelcome New Hampshire, newest member of an exclusive -- six and counting -- group of states to recognize same-sex marriages! But what's this? Conservative Connecticut and New Hampshire have their laws done and heading to the presses while liberal California's views are being summed up by a pageant contestant with a fondness for "opposite marriage" only? Bonnie asks us, has the country gone topsy-turvy? ...
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