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Dr. Ben Carson raised eyebrows from commentators both left and right with his recent comments on homosexuality, but his exploratory committee insists that the criticism won’t derail Carson from telling the truth and that America is desperate for real leadership.

Fearing future legal battles, the owners of a successful Christian bakery in Indianapolis who declined to bake wedding cakes for same-sex couples have decided to shut down their business.

Dr. Ben Carson, former pediatric neurosurgeon and author of “You Have a Brain,” said that he would no longer be talking about gay rights on Wednesday’s “Sean Hannity Show.” Carson discussed the controversy over his comments in an interview on

The Alabama Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the state’s probate judges to stop issuing marriage licenses to gay couples, saying a previous federal ruling that gay-marriage bans violate the U.S. Constitution does not preclude them from following state law, which defines marriage as between a man and a woman.

The importance of having strong, competent leaders fighting for Texas is never more apparent than when the will of Texans and the rule of law are under assault. That was clearly evident last week when a judge in Travis County declared our state’s same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional, despite the will of more than three-quarters of Texans who voted for the amendment. Two days later, another judge in Travis County in a separate case directed the Travis County Clerk to issue a marriage license to a Democrat-Party-connected same-sex couple.

HBO’s “Real Time” host Bill Maher argued that President Obama couldn’t reveal his position on gay marriage because “he was already black and he didn’t want to give Bill O’Reilly a heart attack” on Friday. During his closing, which largely

Two convicted murderers serving life-terms are set to marry in the UK’s first gay marriage behind bars. Both were jailed after targeting and killing gay men. Mikhail Ivan Gallatinov, 40, was jailed in 1997 for the “cold blooded” murder of 28-year-old gay

The first gay marriage in Texas history happened in Austin on Thursday afternoon. Sarah Goodfriend and Suzanne Bryant, both of Austin, went to the Travis County Clerk immediately after obtaining a court order in their favor, obtained a license, and were married. Texas

Legalising gay marriage has cost the Conservative Party thousands of votes, a study by the Evangelical Alliance has found. A recent poll by the Alliance saw support for the Conservatives drop amongst evangelicals from 40 percent down to 28 percent. The

The mainstream media are reporting the “standoff” over gay marriage in Alabama as if the state’s Chief Justice, Roy Moore, is the reincarnation of (Democrat) George Wallace, standing in the schoolhouse door, defying the federal government over desegregation. The meme suits the gay rights movement perfectly, as activists have long likened the struggle for marriage to the struggle against Jim Crow anti-miscegenation laws. Yet Moore is simply following the Constitution, not defying it.

In a contentious 25-minute interview with Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore on Thursday, CNN “New Day” co-host Chris Cuomo discussed Moore’s refusal to adhere to a federal judge’s ruling on same-sex marriages. Cuomo and Moore disagreed on whether or

If there is no way to keep government honest, then it is incumbent upon us to keep it weak. Right now, the U.S. has the worst of both worlds: Strong, yet too often dishonest, government.

President Obama is engaging in Washington’s favorite parlor game: predicting the outcome of Supreme Court cases. He expects the Court to endorse same-sex marriage this summer.

Barack Obama’s former adviser that says the president was lying about his position on gay marriage until he changed his public stance in 2012.

Barack Obama lied about his opposition to gay marriage, according to David Axelrod’s new memoir. The revelation is reported by Time magazine’s Zeke Miller as: “Axelrod: Obama Misled Nation When He Opposed Gay Marriage In 2008.” But that headline could just as easily have read: “Obama Misled Nation About His Faith,” since Obama claimed his opposition to gay marriage was based on his religious views.

The U.S. Supreme Court took a pass on preventing a lower court judge from allowing gay marriage in Alabama, a move that court watchers feel is an indication that the court will approve gay marriage nationwide later this year.

The Dean of Marquette University has told conservative professor John McAdams that the university has begun the process of revoking his tenure and firing him.

The Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) announced Monday that the owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa bakery must pay a lesbian couple up to $150,000 for refusing to sell them a wedding cake.

Alabama’s probate judges who do not believe in same-sex marriages are waiting to see what will happen after a Mobile judge ruled on January 23 that Alabama’s constitutional and statutory ban on gay marriages violated the U.S. Constitution.

President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address tonight was a very “colorful” speech one, to say the least. Like all of the other members of Congress, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) attended the SOTU, but she did not go alone. Wasserman Schultz

As a backdrop for his marriage proposal to his boyfriend, Vito Cammissano, NFL defensive end Michael Sam chose Saint Peter’s Square in Vatican City.

If the Court does uphold same-sex marriage as a constitutional right, it will mark a stunning transformation of marriage in less than seven years. In 2008, voters in California, easily one of the most liberal states, passed Proposition 8, which made traditional marriage the only form of marriage recognized in the state, overturning an earlier ruling by the state’s courts. Rather than make their case again to the voters, gay marriage advocates took to the courts, dominated by liberal judges.

Friday, after the news broke that the Supreme Court will hear four cases this summer of state bans to ultimately decide if gay marriage is a constitutional right, Bloomberg Television’s “With All Due Respect” host Mark Halperin said that the

Tiffany & Co. is reportedly the next business to feature a same-sex couple as part of its latest advertising campaign.

On January 6, same-sex marriage became official and recognized legally in the state of Florida.

In one fell swoop, a Florida state judge in Miami-Dade County lifted her own stay that had temporarily halted LGBT marriage in her county, and then immediately proceeded to perform a marriage ceremony for the four plaintiffs in the case she had heard.

U.S. campaigners against surrogate motherhood have told Breitbart News they are not at all surprised by the controversy swirling around two gay millionaires who became the first LGBT men to have their names entered on the birth certificate of children born from gestational surrogacy.

TLC announced back in December that it would be airing a special in January, titled My Husband’s Not Gay, that would follow married Mormon men who describe themselves as heterosexual despite being attracted to men.

“I played Barack Obama’s inauguration even though I didn’t vote for him,” said Kid Rock, whose legal name is Robert Ritchie. “I didn’t agree with his policies, but there was an exciting sense of change in the air.” However, he said, “that promise hasn’t been fulfilled, the country is more divided than ever.”

National Public Radio aired a remarkable interview on Sunday’s Weekend Edition with Allan Edwards, a Presbyterian pastor who is gay, yet lives a heterosexual life. The conversation between NPR’s Renee Montaigne and Edwards–and his wife–sheds light on an often overlooked constituency in the debate over gay marriage.

With the legal privilege of gay marriage comes the need to break those ties, and Florida has now racked up its first gay divorce, reports say. One of the Sunshine State’s judges—who helped with a case that ruled a ban on gay marriage