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Massachusetts Goes After DOMA

  BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley says a federal law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman interferes with her state’s right to regulate the institution. Coakley’s office filed a lawsuit in July challenging the federal Defense of Marriage Act. In papers filed late Thursday, Coakley asks

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Holy Revelation!

In my ongoing effort to reveal faith for what it is, which is "a belief in something for which there is no proof", I post the latest issue of THIS WEEK IN HOLY CRIMES from JoeMyGod… Over the last seven days… Pennsylvania: Father James Shimsky busted in cocaine buy. Michigan: Pastor Russel Schaller charged with

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Prop 8 Trial Inundated With Briefs

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The federal challenge to California’s same-sex marriage ban is attracting nationwide attention in the form of "friend of the court" briefs. Groups and individuals supporting and opposed to gay marriage submitted a flurry of opinions on the subject Wednesday, the deadline Chief U.S. Judge Vaughn R. Walker had set for the

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