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President Obama's Stance On Same-Sex Marriage Boosts Mental Health

Mary Barber, M.D. | Posted 05.30.2012

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For young people who are beginning to realize that they are gay or lesbian, the president's statement carries a hopeful message for the future: You can expect to be able to share a life with someone, to marry and raise a family, if you so choose.

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Farrakhan: Obama First President To Sanction What Scriptures Forbid

The Huffington Post | Danielle Cadet | Posted 05.29.2012

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Minister Louis Farrakhan recently responded to President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage calling him "the first president that sanctioned what the...

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PHOTOS: 8 Legendary Same-Sex Couples

Rodger Streitmatter | Posted 05.26.2012

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When I came up with the book title 'Outlaw Marriages' , my title was totally edgy. But then the tide started to turn against me.

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This Evolution Won't Be Televised

Jason Stanford | Posted 05.26.2012

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The arc of history is long and bends toward progress, but it usually starts in a bad place. Former congressman Chris Bell knows this, because he went through his own reevaluation on gay marriage.

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WATCH: 6 Reasons Why You Should Be Cool With Gay Marriage

Bryan Safi | Posted 05.26.2012

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And as the old saying goes, "If 50 Cent is doing it, shouldn't we all be?" So for all of you out there who still aren't convinced, here are my six reasons why you should be cool with gay marriage. I'm looking at you, Manny Pacquaio.

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Words Matter

Rev. Gilbert H. Caldwell | Posted 05.26.2012

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I joined the struggle for LGBT equality because of the shared experience of injustice. No immediate member of my family is LGBT, and my sexual orientation is heterosexual, but if I claimed to embrace the words of Dr. King, I must live and act out the values of those words.

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NAACP, Marriage Equality, Obama, And Voting Rights: The Perfect Storm

Rev. Dr. Nancy Wilson | Posted 05.26.2012

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Voting rights are LGBT rights! Elder rights are LGBT rights! Economic rights are LGBT rights! The perfect storm of officials and movements coming together to support the American dream of equality is here.

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President Obama Says 'No' To Holy Terrorism

Rev. Mel White | Posted 05.25.2012

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I celebrate the fact that for whatever personal and political reasons, our president's support for marriage equality reaffirms his belief that we are not a Christian nation, that in this democracy the Constitution trumps biblical law.

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I Don't Want To Get Married

Robin Schwartz | Posted 05.24.2012

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I have decided I don't need a contract to declare or define my relationship. I understand and respect that others see it as more than that, but right now I am not interested. But I deserve the right to make that choice for myself and not have someone else make it for me.

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Good News For Gay Marriage

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 05.24.2012

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In a dramatic shift, Maryland voters overwhelmingly would vote to uphold a law allowing same-sex marriage, according to a survey released Thursday by ...

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Whiplash And Backlash

Wayne Besen | Posted 05.24.2012

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There has been much talk about a potential backlash against President Barack Obama for his endorsement of gay marriage. But we also can't discount the possibility of what I call "whiplash" -- which is the president's support causing many people to fundamentally rethink this issue.

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Obama Campaign Courts Voters On Gay Rights

HuffingtonPost.com | Sabrina Siddiqui | Posted 05.23.2012

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President Barack Obama's reelection campaign will not ignore Republican voters as it conducts a national outreach effort targeting the lesbian, gay, b...

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Poll: Blacks Shifting Quickly On Gay Marriage

The Huffington Post | Gene Demby | Posted 05.23.2012

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The expected backlash among blacks to President Obama’s endorsement of same-sex marriage has yet to materialize. And a new Washington Post-ABC surve...

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WATCH: Colin Powell Shows Support For Gay Marriage

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 05.23.2012

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Former Secretary of State Colin Powell became the latest public official to back gay marriage on Wednesday. "I have no problem with it," he said on...

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Obama 'Revolves,' Romney 'Devolves': Now the Rest of the Campaign Begins!

Peter D. Rosenstein | Posted 05.22.2012

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This is an important election and the American people will give voice to their vision of the future. Marriage equality will be but a sidebar, a small part of the panoply of issues that will foretell how American's want their nation to look in the next 50 years.

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Obama And Gay Marriage: A Lesson For All Progressives And The Obama Campaign

Michelangelo Signorile | Posted 05.23.2012

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We were told by the Democratic strategists and the campaign pollsters, the Democratic establishment, that coming out for marriage equality would be harmful to the president. But the opposite has happened.

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Homophobic North Carolina Pastor: 'Forty Years Ago [Gays] Would've Hung...From A White Oak Tree'

Posted 05.22.2012

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Footage of a homophobic sermon given by the North Carolina pastor who called for gays and lesbians to put in an electrified pen and ultimately killed ...

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Evangelicals and the Wrong Side of History

Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou | Posted 05.20.2012

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As pundits and politicians have courted conservative evangelical leaders, they have forgotten that evangelicals tend to be on the wrong side of history.

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Anti-Gay Lawmaker Won't Apologize

The Huffington Post | John Celock | Posted 05.21.2012

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The Mississippi state lawmaker who cited a Bible passage on Facebook calling for gay men to be "put to death" has taken to the social networking site ...

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The First Gay President?

Akilah Bolden-Monifa | Posted 05.18.2012

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President Obama helped move marriage equality forward, and his courageous statement will go down in history. "It is important for me to go ahead and a...

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How Obama's Announcement Changes The Gay Marriage Debate

AP | CLARKE CANFIELD | Posted 05.18.2012

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PORTLAND, Maine — President Barack Obama's support for gay marriage has emboldened activists and politicians on both sides of the issue, setting...

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Teacher Writes Being Gay Just Like Being A Murderer On Facebook

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 05.18.2012

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Jack Conkling, a Prairie Hills Middle School social studies teacher and Buhler High School assistant women's basketball coach in Buhler, Kan., is unde...

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For Gays, It's Still The Economy, Stupid

R. Clarke Cooper | Posted 05.18.2012

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The ancient Romans mastered the art of appeasing a restless populace through spectacle. With the president's announcement regarding marriage, Americans are seeing panem et circenses, "bread and circuses," in action, when what we really need are jobs.

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It Is Now Symbolically Necessary To Reelect Obama

Justin Huang | Posted 05.18.2012

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A terrified gay teenager in middle America has just been told by the president that he or she has just as much a right to love and marry. And that teenager doesn't care about your intellectual meanderings of politicking. All that teenager knows is that it just got better.

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Black Ministers Come Out On Obama's Stance On Marriage

Irene Monroe | Posted 05.17.2012

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LGBTQ activists of African descent have pondered what would be the catalyst to rally those African-American Christian ministers to support same-sex marriage and engage the black community in a nationwide discussion. The answer arrived in President Obama.

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