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Should faith and politics mix? Bill O'Reilly asks these reverends

Patrice Peck
The political pundit recently discussed the topic with two black reverends on his show "TheO' Reilly Factor."
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U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at a campaign rally at Doolittle Park on October 24, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Obama is on a 48-hour campaign tour of battleground states, including Colorado, Florida and Iowa. (Photo by John Gurzinski/Getty Images)

Obama backs gay marriage initiatives in 3 states

David Crary, Associate Press National Writer
(AP) - President Barack Obama on Thursday threw his support behind ballot measures in Maine, Maryland and Washington state that would legalize same-sex marriage...
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Rebecca Jones, of North Hampton, Mass., center, and Veronica Thoms, of Pelham, NY right, celebrate the legalization of same-sex marriage in New York State outside the Stonewall Inn on Christopher St, Friday, June 24, 2011, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Study: Black LGBT no longer invisible

Sharon Lettman-Hicks
OPINION - Black LGBT people are here and they’re here to stay. However, nothing is more important for full equality than being out, particularly if you’re Black and gay...
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Angela McCaskill, chief diversity officer at Gallaudet University, using sign language and speaking through an interpreter, addresses a news conference on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012 in Annapolis, Md., about being put on leave from her job after signing a petition to put Maryland’s same-sex marriage law on the ballot for voters to decide. She is asking to be reinstated to her position. (AP Photo/Brian Witte)

Diversity officer who signed anti-gay marriage petition on hot seat

Ugonna Okpalaoka
theGRIO REPORT - Gallaudet University has announced that it would like its chief diversity officer to return to her post, after she was put on leave for signing a petition to reverse Maryland's same-sex marriage law...
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Minnesota Lynx WNBA basketball star and Olympic gold medalist Seimone Augustus talks about her relationship and engagement to LaTaya Varner, left, during an interview with The Associated Press in Minneapolis. With a wedding scheduled for May and a crucial vote in November that threatens to ban gay marriage in Minnesota, the intensely private Augustus is speaking out. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

WNBA star fights anti-gay marriage amendment

John Krawczynski, Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Seimone Augustus has always preferred to stay out of the public eye even as her basketball career has taken her to the heights of an Olympic gold medal and a WNBA championship...
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In this March 8, 2012 file phoo, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia speaks at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn.  (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)

Scalia says abortion, 'homosexual sodomy' are easy cases

Mark Sherman, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - Justice Antonin Scalia says his method of interpreting the Constitution makes some of the most hotly disputed issues that come before the Supreme Court among the easiest to resolve...
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Media plays boogeyman with black church vote

Michael Arceneaux
OPINION - In the age of the two-year presidential election cycle coupled with online media and 24-hour news, it is clear that substantive information continues to be cast aside in favor of the spectacle...
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Black pastors waver on Obama, reject Romney

Rachel Zoll, Associated Press
(AP) - Some black clergy see no good presidential choice between a Mormon candidate and one who supports gay marriage, so they are telling their flocks to stay home on Election Day...
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Rev Jesse Jackson attends the official launch party of BritWeek at a private residence in Hancock Park 2012 on April 24, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

Rev. Jesse Jackson would marry same-sex couple if asked

Melissa Noel
theGRIO REPORT - During last week's Democratic National Convention Jackson told conservative outlet Human Events that he sees 'no problem' with gay marriage...
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Washington Police and FBI agents gather outside the Family Research Council in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012, after security guard at the lobbying group was been shot in the arm. A police spokeswoman says the shooting happened Wednesday morning at the Family Research Council. Police say one person has been taken into custody. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Civil rights group 'rhetoric' blamed for shooting

Ben Nuckols and Eric Tucker, Associated PRess
WASHINGTON (AP) - Though the shooting was swiftly condemned by groups across the ideological spectrum, it tapped into deep divisions over cultural issues like gay marriage...
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