Today's Features
President Obama became the first chief executive to host a White House ceremony celebrating "gay pride" Monday, telling several hundred homosexual guests in the East Room that America still has what he called "old attitudes" about homosexuality but that they have "an ally and a champion" in the Oval Office.
A fact check on President Obama's main messages of Wednesday night's forum reveal a president eager to make his case to the public -- but sometimes glossing over the thorny details of how to achieve reform.
The battle for the definition of marriage continues to be hot even after the California Supreme Court affirmed the Prop 8 victory. In a new effort, two attorneys have filed a federal challenge to the same-sex marriage ban in California, claiming that it violates the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution.
No genetic earmark distinguishing homosexuals from heterosexuals has ever been identified. From an evolutionary perspective, genetically determined homosexuality would have become extinct long ago because of reduced reproduction.
Legalizing same-sex marriage is the only way to achieve full equality for gay and lesbian couples, the New York State Bar Association's policy-making body has concluded, abandoning a menu of legislative options it offered only four years ago.
In China, Christians have a choice: Join a government-approved church-which is constantly monitored by the authorities-or join an underground church. This idea is moving to the west: in Britain, the government has begun sticking its nose in church business, telling churches what to do.