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Aren't the Supremes ready for their close-up?
Unless you waited in line for five days to get one of the coveted audience seats at the Supreme Court, you probably experienced this week's oral arguments on same-sex marriage as something of a Ken Burns film. Websites and TV broadcasters played audio of...
Tags: The Supremes (music group), Ken Burns, 60 Minutes (tv program), Gays and Lesbians, John Roberts
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Is gay marriage a gateway issue for political activism?
This week, as the Supreme Court took up two historic cases pertaining to same-sex marriage, it's been an exciting time to be a college student. Huge numbers of young people on Facebook and Twitter continue to post pictures and status updates in support of...
Tags: Students, Gay Rights, The Pennsylvania State University, Human Rights Campaign, Civil Rights
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Harford County residents glad to hear of new pope
Around 2 p.m. Wednesday, the bell at Saint Margaret Parish in Bel Air pealed as word quickly spread from faithful observers in St. Peter's Square in Rome throughout the world that white smoke was pouring from the chimney at the Vatican, the formal...
Tags: Francis I, Christianity, Religious Leaders, Italy, The Pope
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Let's be grown-ups on gay marriage and assault weapons
Given the lack of interest in Congress in protecting children from guns, it was nice to hear a grown-up in Washington speak on behalf of kids, any kids — in this case, the nearly 40,000 kids who live with same-sex parents in California. "They want...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, U.S. Congress, Justice System, Weaponry, Family
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Did Dr. Ben Carson go too far in Fox comments on same-sex marriage?
The Baltimore SunI have been tracking the dance Johns Hopkins nuerosurgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson has been doing with Fox News since his appearance last month at The National Prayer Breakfast. You can see my concerns about the relationship here. But Tuesday night, Dr....Tags: Marriage, Sean Hannity, Benjamin Solomon Carson, Sr., North America, Fox News Channel (tv network)
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New pope is inspiring signal to jaded U.S. Catholics
Be still, my somewhat jaded American Catholic heart: A Jesuit? A Jesuit from Argentina who, as archbishop then cardinal, eschewed the chauffeur-driven limousine for the public buses of Buenos Aires? A Jesuit devoted to social justice and to helping the...
Tags: Francis I, AIDS, Christianity, Physical Fitness and Exercise, The Pope
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The case against capital punishment
The Maryland Senate's vote today to repeal the death penalty was a milestone in an effort to remove from the law a sentence that puts vengeance above justice, fails to deter crime and provides for the families of victims not the closure they crave but...
Tags: Crime Victims, Prince George's County, Annapolis, Baltimore County, Justice System
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The wisdom of Dan Quayle
Almost exactly 20 years ago, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead wrote a controversial essay for The Atlantic titled "Dan Quayle Was Right." In case you forgot (or never knew), let me fill you in on what Mr. Quayle was right about. There once was a popular sitcom...
Tags: Marriage, Brookings Institution, Aaron Sorkin, Culture, The Newsroom (tv program)
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CPAC unwise to snub Christie, gays
What can you do with a man like Chris Christie? The answer, according to many within the conservative movement: Throw him overboard. And while we're at it, let's toss the gays over the side too. The popular governor of New Jersey has certainly angered...
Tags: Culture, Parties and Movements, Personal Weapon Control, Barack Obama, Interior Policy
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Speed limits soon in rearview mirror
How easy to forget ("Higher speed limit law moves forward," March 21). Do some of you old timers remember the fuss we made when the speed limit on Interstate 95 was changed to 65 miles per hour? Now, 70 miles per hour is almost normal. So it will be...Tags: Feminism
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Will the court duck marriage equality altogether?
Regardless of whether the Supreme Court is ready to declare a constitutional right to gay marriage, it has the responsibility to fully recognize the decisions Maryland and eight other states, plus the District of Columbia, have made to allow same-sex...Tags: Marriage, Laws, Proposition 8 (California, 2010), U.S. Congress, Barack Obama
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The false analogy between abortion and gay marriage
If the tenor of their questions is any indication, the justices on the U.S. Supreme Court appeared evenly divided in the challenge to California's law banning gay marriage, with Justice Anthony Kennedy, predictably, in the middle. But rather than deciding...
Tags: Marriage, Laws, Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Abortion
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