GOP Adds Anti-Gay Marriage Plank to Platform
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Republican activists sharpened their party&#39;s opposition to gay marriage Wednesday only hours after Vice President Cheney defended such unions.
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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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WASHINGTON - The House emphatically rejected a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage Thursday, the latest in a string of conservative pet causes advanced by Republican leaders in the run-up to Election Day.    The vote was 227-186, 49 votes shy of the two-thirds needed for approval of an amendment that President Bush backed but the Senate had previously scuttled...
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Proponents of same-sex marriage have introduced a ballot measure that would require heterosexual couples to have a child within three years or have their marriages annulled
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OTTAWA (CP) - The federal government's contentious gay marriage bill has begun what's sure to be a very bumpy ride through the House of Commons.
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The House joined the Senate Thursday in refusing to approve a constitutional amendment to bar gay marriage, described by supporters as a vital protection for traditional families but denounced by foes as a divisive pre-election ploy to inflame prejudice.
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Republicans are finding that a hard-line stance on immigration resonates with a wide swath of voters.
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Washington -- The House&#39;s only openly gay Republican denounced his party Thursday for voting on a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage in an emotional and often personal debate that sent the measure to its legislative grave.
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Members of the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church are urging Fred Thompson to support their stance on homosexuality Â a position on which they say the Republican presidential candidate once "saw eye to eye" with them.
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WASHINGTON _ A group of Christian Democrats seeking to compete against Republicans for the vote of religious Americans have started a new Web site meant to serve as a forum for like thinkers and a political tool to raise money and volunteers for Democratic candidates who share their values.
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The Republican-controlled House emphatically defeated a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage Thursday, the latest in a string of conservative pet causes pushed to a vote by GOP leaders in the run-up to Election Day.
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FREDERICTON (CP) - The Liberal government will defiantly push ahead with plans to introduce a same-sex marriage bill next week in the face of increasingly vocal opposition from critics outside and inside the party.
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WASHINGTON Sept. 30, 2004 - The House emphatically rejected a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage Thursday, the latest in a string of conservative pet causes advanced by Republican leaders in the run-up to Election Day.
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Sponsors of a proposal to ban gay marriage in Florida said Thursday they have gathered enough signatures to put the measure before voters next year.
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QUEBEC (CP) - The Conservative party will launch a national advertising campaign this week, targeting Canadian ethnic groups with the party's stand against gay marriage.
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Republicans crafting the party's  platform backed a proposed constitutional amendment banning gay  marriage on Wednesday in a sharp contrast to plans to put the  party's more moderate face on display at next week's  convention.
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WASHINGTON - The House, in an emotionally and politically charged debate six weeks before the election, voted Thursday to protect the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance from further court challenges.    The legislation, promoted by GOP conservatives, would prevent federal courts, including the Supreme Court, from hearing cases challenging the words "under God," a part of the pledge for the past 50 years...