Same-Sex Marriage

Here's an idea for the Boy Scouts: Stage the next national jamboree at Chick-fil-A. The two outfits seem to be on the same backward page when it comes to equal rights for gays. Disappointing to me, since I'm an Eagle......

Just when we thought Election 2012 was going to be all about the economy, along comes President Obama to reignite the Culture Wars. His declaration that gays should be legally allowed to marry is politically risky, potentially alienating large segments......

Oprah’s former personal chef and "Top Chef Masters" competitor Art Smith married his longtime partner in Washington last weekend in a production so grand, it should have been directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Two Baltimore culinary figures were among...

Charlie Crist the Independent U.S. Senate Candidate issued a position paper on gay rights earlier this week that contradicted the record of Charlie Crist the Republican Florida Governor. When Crist ran for governor as a Republican in 2006, he supported......

A Florida appeals court struck down the state's ban on gay adoptions earlier this week, a landmark decision that is another step on the long road to equality for gays. A few thoughts: 1) It's about time, because the state's......

With Conservative Party officials evidently unsold on an endorsement of Plandome Manor Mayor Barbara Donno for state Senate, following their interview with her on Thursday, she has released a lettter sent to Roger Bogsted, the third party's Nassau...

The big state political news today is that Gov. Paterson, through a memorandum issued by his counsel David Nocenti, has ordered all state agencies to recognize same-sex marriages performed in jurisdictions (Canada, Massachusetts, soon California) where...

by Jim Tankersley A leading evangelical Christian group is telling supporters that a "cultural earthquake" rocked California earlier this month, which threatens "to permanently alter marriage and families in America." Focus on the Family Action, the...

Gov. David Paterson???s move to have state agencies honor out-of-state same-sex marriages casts a sudden spotlight on the issue five months before a make-or-break election that decides if Republicans keep their Senate majority. And as impassioned as...

by Rona Marech When it became known in late 1976 that the Plains Baptist Church had a 12-year-old policy on its books that excluded "blacks and other civil rights agitators" from worshiping there, its most prominent member - soon-to-be-president Jimmy.......

by Katie Fretland A new study shows Republicans have grown more critical of the state of American morality, Gallup reports. In a May poll, 51 percent reported that present moral conditions are "poor." This shows an increase of 15 percent......

A new Quinnipiac poll suggests a division of opinion on gay marriage: NYS voters support 53-40 Paterson's ordering state agencies to recognize out of state same-sex marriages, but they also believe 55-30 that the question should have been resolved by........