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Faith groups react to the Boy Scouts vote to drop the ban on gay Scouts
Thursday, May 23, 2013
8:08pm

Within moments of the announcement that, by a 61% margin, the Boy Scouts of America would be dropping its ban on gay scouts, denominations and faith groups offered their reactions.

Backers of marriage equality will take their cause to Oregon ballot in 2014
02/11/13

Backers of gay marriage say they will take their fight to Oregon’s 2014 ballot, setting up a high-profile political contest on the emotional issue in a state that voted less than a decade ago to constitutionally ban same-sex marriage.

Indiana School Community Calls For Gay-Free Prom As Media Sugarcoats Homophobia
02/11/13

It’s still a bit early for prom season, but students, parents, and faculty at Sullivan High School in Indiana are already calling for a prom that bans gays from attending.

Will and Dan Neville-Rehbehn are baking up a storm to pay for surrogacy
02/11/13

First comes love. Then comes marriage. Then comes an online bake sale to pay for an egg donor, a surrogate and in vitro fertilization.

Gay rights mostly out of reach in central, eastern Europe
02/11/13

Ania and Yga have been inseparable for the last 17 years, living together as a couple in the Polish capital Warsaw but their love is seen as second class in this deeply Roman Catholic country.

A Doubly Trying Tax Season for Same-Sex Couples
02/11/13

FOR Colette Hayward and Margaret Selby, the problem is this: Maryland recognizes their 2009 marriage, but the federal government does not. The ramifications are maddeningly complex, no more so than when they deal with the Internal Revenue Service.

OPINION: In Bed With the President of Ghana?
02/11/13

WHEN my husband-to-be and I met the Ghanaian politician John Dramani Mahama at a friend’s wedding near Accra eight years ago, I liked him immediately. I kept up with his fortunes mostly through mutual friends, and I was happy to learn in 2009 that he had been elected his nation’s vice president.

Anti-gay group targets National Cathedral over gay marriage
02/11/13

An organization started by religious right figure Ralph Reed is circulating an online petition demanding that the federal government halt all “current or future” funds for the Washington National Cathedral because of its recent decision to perform same-sex weddings.

Illinois marriage equality bill could move to House
02/11/13

It's shaping up to be a big week ahead for those who support the push for same sex marriage in Illinois. While supporters wait for a vote in Springfield, they turned their focus to what they call an anti-gay message coming from religious leaders in Chicago.

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