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News10 new results for marriage
 
Child Marriage On Rise As Global Crises Increase, New Study Says
Huffington Post
Though her father wanted to marry her off at age 13, her mother and a group of advocates intervened, Humaiya told The Huffington Post. She says she knows she's lucky -- as of International Women's Day Friday, 13.5 million girls have been married before ...
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Illinois GOP Gay Marriage Backers Could Lose Their Jobs After Party Anger ...
Huffington Post
The state Republican Party's central committee will meet Saturday to consider firing chairman Pat Brady, largely because he spoke out in favor of a bill to end Illinois' ban on gay marriage. And the only Republican state senator to vote in favor of ...
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Among Catholics, increasing support for same-sex marriage
MSNBC
According to a new national Quinnipiac Poll released Friday, the number of American Catholics backing same-sex marriage has increased over the last few months. The poll's results were announced just days before the College of Cardinals will meet in ...
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MSNBC
Republicans and gay marriage: The times have changed
Washington Post (blog)
The poll finds that a plurality of Americans supports same sex marriage, 47-43. But dig into the internals and you find that the groups that increasingly make up the main pillars of the Democratic coalition support it in much larger numbers. Hispanics ...
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Illinois Republican chairman under fire for pro-gay marriage stance
Chicago Tribune
Brady, who has served as chairman for almost four years, illustrated the long-standing strains within the state GOP between its socially moderate and conservative wings in January when he backed legislation to legalize gay marriage in Illinois. The ...
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Bill Clinton: Defense Of Marriage Act That I Signed Is Unconstitutional
NPR (blog)
Times were different in 1996 when he signed the Defense of Marriage Act into law, former President Bill Clinton writes in today's Washington Post. "In no state in the union was same-sex marriage recognized, much less available as a legal right, but ...
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NPR (blog)
Michael Jordan marriage: He and Yvette Prieto take another step
Los Angeles Times
Michael Jordan once gave up basketball and then came back. Now, he's coming back to married life too. The NBA legend and his fiancee, Yvette Prieto, went to the Palm Beach County, Fla., courthouse Thursday to apply for a marriage license, according to ...
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Why Bill Clinton Signed the Defense of Marriage Act
New Yorker (blog)
It is extremely rare for former Presidents to admit mistakes made in office, and rarer still for one to disavow a major piece of legislation. That's partly why Bill Clinton's op-ed in the Washington Post calling the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act—a law ...
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New Yorker (blog)
A Defining Moment for Marriage and Self-Government
Heritage.org
What was once an important debate over the legal status of marriage has emerged as a critical national issue, the resolution of which will shape the future of our society and the course of constitutional government in the United States. Family is and ...
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An Elimination of Marriage Act
Huffington Post (blog)
Government should not be in the marriage business. Although it absorbed much older secular marriage codes, marriage is a religious concept. It legitimizes sex between a man and a woman, essential for procreation which some churches see as the primary ...
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Blogs5 new results for marriage
 
A Majority of Young Republicans Support Gay Marriage | Mother ...
By Tim Murphy
Supporters of gay marriage may not be welcome at CPAC, but they're making huge strides everywhere else. On Thursday, Jan van Lohuizen and Joel Benenson, top campaign pollsters respectively for Presidents George W. Bush and Barack ...
Political Mojo | Mother Jones
QUINNIPIAC POLL ON GAY MARRIAGE - Catholic League ...
By admin
The media are ecstatic: Catholics are pro-gay marriage. Indeed, Peter A. Brown, the assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, says, "Catholic voters are leading American voters toward support for same-sex marriage.
Catholic League
Majority of U.S. Catholics back gay marriage, pollsays | Strange ...
By Joel Connelly
Majority of U.S. Catholics back gay marriage, pollsays.
Strange Bedfellows -- Politics News
Anti-LGBT activist: 'How do two guys consummate their marriage ...
By Arturo Garcia
The head of an anti-LGBT rights group shared his disgust over the thought of two gay men consummating their marriage with conservative radio host Janet Mefferd on Thursday. "If you want to just think of how wrong homosexual so-called ...
The Raw Story
Health Benefits of Marriage Mostly Apply to Those Already Healthy ...
By Health Editor
The health benefits of marriage seem to fade when you need them most, according to a large new study. Although marriage does seem to benefit those who are in good health, it provides less protection against death as health declines, the ...
Health News / Tips & Trends /...

Web2 new results for marriage
 
Study: Pro-Marriage Lawmakers Get Reelected Way More Often ...
As more states consider votes over marriage equality, it might be helpful to look back at what it does to reelection prospects.
www.advocate.com/.../study-pro-marriage-lawmakers-get-reel...
Pro-marriage is pro-life | The Daily Caller
Why people who oppose abortion should oppose gay marriage as well.
dailycaller.com/2013/03/07/pro-marriage-is-pro-life/


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