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Massachusetts Goes After DOMA

  BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley says a federal law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman interferes with her state’s right to regulate the institution. Coakley’s office filed a lawsuit in July challenging the federal Defense of Marriage Act. In papers filed late Thursday, Coakley asks […]

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Holy Revelation!

In my ongoing effort to reveal faith for what it is, which is "a belief in something for which there is no proof", I post the latest issue of THIS WEEK IN HOLY CRIMES from JoeMyGod… Over the last seven days… Pennsylvania: Father James Shimsky busted in cocaine buy. Michigan: Pastor Russel Schaller charged with

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Prop 8 Trial Inundated With Briefs

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The federal challenge to California’s same-sex marriage ban is attracting nationwide attention in the form of "friend of the court" briefs. Groups and individuals supporting and opposed to gay marriage submitted a flurry of opinions on the subject Wednesday, the deadline Chief U.S. Judge Vaughn R. Walker had set for the

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VIDEO: McCain VS McCain…Again

John McCain certainly proved he has ZERO integrity during his recent Presidential run, when he literally flip flopped on virtually every position he’d ever held, just to attempt to gain the nomination. Look at McCain’s REAL history and you’ll see he wasn’t a very good soldier in the first place, yet was labeled a war

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Hawaii Civil Unions Stall

  HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii lawmakers declined to vote Friday on a bill that would have allowed same-sex civil unions, effectively doing away with the measure. State House leaders said a narrow majority of representatives would have voted for civil unions, but they decided to indefinitely postpone a decision on whether to grant gay and

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