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Mark Warner goes to Facebook to announce support for gay marriage

Business, economics, jobs – that’s Mark Warner’s wheelhouse. On Monday, the Virginia Democrat stepped outside his wheelhouse to take a rare stand on a social issue, and not just any social issue, but the social issue – gay marriage.


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Gay marriage debate hits close to home

Kenneth L. Miller is a 46-year-old Amish Mennonite minister accused of aiding and abetting a woman who was involved in a custody battle with her former civil-union partner


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Chris Marston: The politics of Chick-fil-A

I have not eaten at Chick-Fil-A in over 6 months. It is not because I disagree with their corporately shared religious and social beliefs


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Chris Graham: I’d eat at Chick-fil-A again

I’d eat at Chick-fil-A again, calories and gastrointestinal challenges be damned. Here’s how I go back: Chick-fil-A issues a statement telling us that it won’t give any more money to anti-LGBT groups


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Chris Graham: The last Chick-fil-A sandwich

Chick-fil-A makes a damn good chicken sandwich. What is good to the taste buds might be hard to stomach considering the hateful comments from company president Dan Cathy, who in a radio interview this week said the U.S. is “inviting God’s judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say we know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage”


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Chris Graham: Out of the closet, and back in

“Yeah, sure, why not?” This was the typically noncommital response of my friend Eli to the question of questions at a family and friends gathering over the weekend


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Goode: Romney ‘father of homosexual marriages’

Former Fifth District Congressman Virgil Goode blasted presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney as “the father of homosexual marriages”


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Obama: ‘I think same-sex couples should be able to get married’

In an interview with ABC News on Wednesday, President Obama said that he has “concluded that for me personally, it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married.”


Focus | A move toward equity

Kaine proposes employee-benefits policy change Story by Chris Graham freepress2@ntelos.net The Kaine administration, in a sort of last act as its final days count down, has proposed a change in state policy that would allow state employees to choose between covering a spouse or an “otherwise qualfied adult” on their employee plus one health-care policies. [...]