SAN FRANCISCO Gay marriage: Did issue help re-elect Bush?
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Washington -- San Francisco did not vote for President Bush, but the pictures of wedded gay and lesbian couples streaming from its City Hall last February may have helped return him to the White House.
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Gay marriage is emerging as a big enough issue in several states to influence races both for Congress and the presidency.
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By huge margins, voters favor restrictions on marriage. Gay-rights activists are promising court challenges. Alison Wood holds her daughter, Hanna Wood-Krusell, 5, as she votes in Rockport, Mass.
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There&#39;s no doubt that Sen. John Kerry could have found a better way to respond to questions about gay marriage and homosexuality than he did Wednesday night in his debate with President Bush.
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THE RACE: The race for the Republican presidential nomination in California
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Marking the anniversary of his decision to sanction same-sex marriages, Mayor Gavin Newsom on Saturday urged gay couples to back politicians who support gay marriage, saying it is time "to hold our elected officials accountable."
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Senate supporters of a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage said Monday they intend to press for passage in the new Congress, brushing aside mixed signals from the White House on the issue's importance at the start of President Bush's second term.
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg staked out a compromise position in the gay-marriage debate: He would publicly support gay marriage, but challenge a court decision allowing it.
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After a coast-to-coast airing from family rooms to polling places, the debate over same-sex marriage returns to San Francisco, the site of an exuberant but short-lived gay wedding march.
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Four more years of George W. Bush is a daunting prospect for many gay Americans, who see a president increasingly beholden to an evangelical Christian base bent on resisting gay equality.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 5 - A California appeals court upheld on Thursday the state's ban on same-sex marriage, reversing a lower court's judgment against a voter-approved law defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman.
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With a beautiful and brainy wife at his side, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom exuded a glamorous image that drew comparisons to the Kennedy family and perhaps helped insulate him when he bucked California law by granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
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An important ally when George W. Bush first won the presidency, the Christian Coalition of America says it's poised again to help a conservative win the White House. Whether it can back up that pledge is an open question.
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On the eve of the Republican convention, some GOP gay rights supporters frustrated by their party platform's hardline stance against same-sex unions say they are torn over whether to back President Bush in this fall's election.
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If George W. Bush believes that the evangelists who did not vote in 2000 could win him this year's election, for John Kerry the 'Sex and the City' women could carry him into the White House.
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Refusing to wade into the debate over gay marriage in Massachusetts, the US Supreme Court yesterday rejected a bid to overturn a landmark court ruling legalizing gay marriage in the Bay State.
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AUSTIN, Texas - Just a few miles from George W. Bush's former office at the state Capitol, a panel of religious experts weighed a question with relevance to many people of faith: How would Jesus vote?    It's a complex topic that can't be boiled down to simple political terms, said religious leaders who attended a Texas Faith Network conference in Austin on Tuesday...