Gay Marriage Issue Motivates Conservatives
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WASHINGTON - Gay marriage is emerging as a big enough issue in several states to influence races both for Congress and the presidency.    Ballot initiatives on banning same-sex marriages are expected to propel social conservatives to the polls in 11 states, including four presidential battlegrounds: Arkansas, Ohio, Michigan and Oregon...
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Gay marriage opponents launched a petition drive Monday in hopes of persuading lawmakers to amend the state constitution to include a definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
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Christian conservatives, traditionally a reliable Republican constituency, aren't necessarily a GOP gimme this time around. There is an undercurrent of concern that some evangelicals, unhappy that the GOP-led Congress and President Bush haven't paid more attention to gay marriage and other "values" issues, may stay home on Election Day or even vote Democratic.
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Former Massachusetts Gov.  Mitt Romney, who is seeking the Republican presidential  nomination, sought to solidify support among social  conservatives on Friday, pledging to work against abortion, gay  marriage and embryonic stem cell research if he is elected.
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President George W. Bush will not actively seek to ban gay marriage in the United States during his second term in office -- a stance certain to anger the social conservatives who helped re-elect him.
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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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Conservatives concerned about inconsistencies in Republican Mitt Romney's record on gay marriage and abortion said Tuesday the Massachusetts governor has some explaining to do. For now, at least, the potential presidential candidate isn't talking.
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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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WASHINGTON - The Republican-controlled House moved toward certain defeat of a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage Thursday, the latest in a string of conservative pet causes pushed to a vote in the run-up to Election Day.   "God created Adam and Eve, He didn't create Adam and Steve," said Rep...
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US Vice President Dick Cheney has come under fire from some conservative groups for publicly outlining his position on gay marriage -- a stance which differs markedly from that of President George W. Bush.
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Republican leaders are pushing for a constitutional ban on gay marriage in the GOP platform, opening a new point of contention between social conservatives and outnumbered but vocal factions fighting to give the party's statement of principles a more moderate tone.
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The Christian conservative leader is still mulling a GOP endorsement. But his influence may not be what it once was
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Mike Huckabeeâs candidacy threatens to drive a wedge between the leaders of the conservative Christian  movement and their base.
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Religious conservatives have triumphed in their bitter ideological struggle within the US Republican party and imposed tough stands against abortion, gay marriage and stem-cell research.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 6 -- A panel of rabbis opened the way Wednesday to allow same-sex commitment ceremonies and the ordination of gays within Conservative Judaism, which occupies a difficult middle ground between orthodoxy and liberalism in American Judaism.
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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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"Protection of marriage" is now the watchword for many activists fighting to prevent gays and lesbians from marrying. Some conservatives, however, say marriage in America began unraveling long before the latest gay-rights push and are pleading for a fresh, soul-searching look at the institution.