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NOM President Brian Brown insists Minnesotans will approve a gay marriage ban amendment at the polls next year. Brian Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), strongly believes Minnesota voters will approve a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as a heterosexual union, thereby banning gay and lesbian couples from the institution. Lawmakers approved the amendment on Saturday and sent it to voters for their approval in 2012. The Washington-based group has been at the forefront of the marriage debate since backing California's 2008 voter-approved gay marriage ban, Proposition 8, which overturned a state Supreme Court ruling that legalized the institution in the state. In remarks to NPR, Brown suggested a recent Star Tribune Minnesota Poll which found a majority (55%) of Minnesotans opposed to the amendment was biased. ?People doing polls want to get the results they're getting,? Brown said. ?In Minnesota, they'll do what 31 other states have done ? vote

MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - The Republican-led Minnesota legislature approved late Saturday putting a state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage to voters in November 2012.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Fifty-three percent of Americans support making gay marriage legal, a Gallup poll showed on Friday, a marked reversal from just a year ago when an equal majority opposed same-sex matrimony.

Log Cabin Republicans leader R. Clarke Cooper defends Republicans on gay marriage . During a segment on MSNBC's Hardball, R. Clarke Cooper, executive director of gay GOP group Log Cabin Republicans, insisted Republicans are coming around on gay marriage despite the findings of a Gallup poll suggesting otherwise. The poll released on Friday found that a majority (53%) of Americans support the legalization of gay marriage. Seven out of ten people under the age of 35 supported gay marriage, but 60% of Americans over 55 objected to the institution. The poll's authors noted another divide: ?Republicans in particular seem fixed in their opinions; there was no change at all in their support level this year, while independents' and Democrats' support jumped by double-digit margins.? According to Gallu?p, 28% of Republicans support gay marriage. Cooper tried to dress things up a bit, saying young people in the party were moving toward greater acceptance of gay rights in general. ?Anecdotally, j

A Gallup poll released Friday shows a narrow majority of Americans support giving gay and lesbian couples the right to marry. A Gallup poll released Friday shows a narrow majority of Americans support giving gay and lesbian couples the right to marry. Fifty-three percent of respondents said they support the legalization of gay marriage, while forty-five percent disagree, and two percent don't know. Friday's poll was the polling group's first in 15 years to find opponents of the institution in the minority. Gallup's survey finds a 9-point increase in support for gay marriage in its polling since last year. ?This most recent poll reaffirms that Americans have been listening and, in Lincoln's words, 'thinking anew' or, as President Obama would put it 'evolving.',? Evan Wolfson, president of Freedom to Marry, said in a statement. ?As they've heard the stories of loving and committed couples harmed by the denial of marriage and the safety-net it brings, their hearts have opened and minds ha

Miss New York Claire Buffie is the latest celebrity to join the HRC's New Yorkers for Marriage Equality campaign. Miss New York Claire Buffie is the latest celebrity to join the Human Rights Campaign's (HRC) New Yorkers for Marriage Equality campaign. ?I believe that everyone, including my sister Sarah, deserves the right to marry the one they love,? Buffie says in her 30-second video ad released Friday. ?That's why I'm a New Yorker for marriage equality.? ?I competed in Miss America 2010 on an LGBT rights platform because this is a fundamental fight for fairness,? she adds. (The video is embedded in the right panel of this page.) The 24-year-old beauty queen is the first to use the Miss America platform to champion gay rights. She's also an executive board member of the gay rights group Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). Buffie is among the growing number of celebrities and prominent politicians to record a video for the campaign that began last year. Five gay

More than two-thirds of Afghan men say the killing of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden is good news for their war-torn nation but opinions are split over the terror network's future, a poll shows.

Former House speaker Newt Gingrich became the first major Republican candidate to formally throw his hat into the ring for the 2012 White House race, aiming to oust President Barack Obama.

Potential Republican White House contender Jon Huntsman on Saturday told Americans worried about Beijing's rise that the United States remains "the envy of the world."

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama turned on Saturday from national elation over the killing of America's most wanted foe to face the threat that high gasoline prices and unemployment pose to his own 2012 re-election hopes.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than half of Americans say the U.S. economy is in a recession or a depression despite official data that show a moderate recovery, according to a poll released on Thursday.

PORTSMOUTH, NEW HAMPSHIRE (Reuters) - Real estate magnate and television personality Donald Trump kept his presidential tease tour rolling on Wednesday with a high profile trip to New Hampshire.

DES MOINES (Reuters) - Representative Ron Paul took the first step toward a longshot campaign for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday, hoping to expand his support beyond a fervent group of loyalists.

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez on Monday announced a big increase in minimum wages and pensions in an attempt to compensate for rising living costs ahead of next year's presidential election.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, unable to break out of a crowded Republican field, said on Monday he will not run for U.S. president in 2012 and suggested he did not have the "fire in the belly" for a race.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, unable to break out of a crowded Republican field, said on Monday he will not run for U.S. president in 2012 and suggested he did not have the "fire in the belly" for a race.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Mike Huckabee is riding high in the polls, but he could be running out of time to make up his mind on a run for his party's 2012 presidential nomination.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Mike Huckabee is riding high in the polls, but he could be running out of time to make up his mind on a run for his party's 2012 presidential nomination.

MADISON, Wisconsin (Reuters) - Conservative Sarah Palin returned to the U.S. political arena on Saturday after several months absence with a feisty speech attacking both the establishment Republican Party and Democratic President Barack Obama and proclaiming "the 2012 elections begin here."

US President Barack Obama is set to try and wrest control of Washington's fevered debate over the economy and bulging deficit, sure to be a dominant theme of his 2012 reelection bid.