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A Kentucky clerk who spent five days in jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples has filed for re-election. Kim Davis filed for re-election last week, according to documents on the Secretary of State’s website. She had announced in November she planned to seek a second term. Davis caused an international uproar when she stopped issuing marriage licenses in 2015 after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down laws banning same-sex unions. …

The recent decision by a California judge to strike down Proposition 8 is the definition of an activist liberal judicial system. Marriage HAS ALWAYS been between people of opposite genders until we decided to suddenly reinvent it in the last decade or so. ‘Tis a silly thing to pretend that defining marriage as between a man and a woman is suddenly ‘unconstitutional’. What hogwash, poppycock and sheer idiocy. The will, and common sense, of the people is now constantly overturned by liberal judges who now throw anything out that isn’t marching along with the “progressive” agenda. By this definition of...

Lansing couples a step closer to being legally wed Lansing City Clerk Chris Swope had to leave the country in 2004 to legally marry his partner Brad Rakowski. After a federal judge’s ruling Wednesday overturned California’s same-sex marriage ban, Swope is one step closer to having his marriage recognized by his own country. “It was a great ruling,” Swope said. “I was a little bit surprised but overall happy and pleased with it.” Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker’s ruling to overturn Proposition 8, the state’s ban on same-sex marriage passed by 52 percent of voters in 2008, has legitimate...

Yes, yes, I know. I am most likely going to be blasted for riding the fence on this one. I am a conservative Republican. I believe in lower taxes, securing our borders, and protecting our country and our Constitutional rights. I support our troops and take pride in the foundation America was built. I own guns, and I know how to aim…accurately. I want our country to thrive, I want our economic hardships to cease. I want my kids to enjoy a solid future and not owe the government for the entirety of their lives. I want Reagan to be...