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This is from the aftermath, the post show wrap-up last night after the Logo network’s forum, the human rights campaign and the Democrat candidates. This is comedian and actor Alec Mapa giving his analysis of the performances last night of the Democrat presidential candidates. Click Here to listen to "Super Fabulous Analysis"

Two rebukes repeatedly leveled at Christians from today’s champions of “tolerance” are becoming wearisome when trying to apply scriptural admonition to the practice of homosexuality. First is the idea that calling it sin always means that believers hate homosexuals. The second is the feeling that Christians who hold to biblical truth are not in the twenty first century.

Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards each defended their opposition to gay marriage last night at the first-ever candidate's forum dedicated to gay and lesbian issues. ...they support civil unions that give broad rights to same-sex couples, but stopped short of endorsing marriage - a top priority for gay-rights activists.

LOS ANGELES — The leading Democratic presidential candidates all but apologized for their failure to support same-sex marriage before a largely gay and lesbian television audience Thursday night. The Los Angeles forum, organized by the Human Rights Campaign and the gay-themed cable network LOGO, marked the newfound political confidence of a community being swept into the mainstream by a swift, generational change in American views. The debate's panelists, who included the president of the HRC, a Washington Post editorial writer and the lesbian rock star Melissa Etheridge, took for granted the candidates' support for a sweeping package of federal rights...

<p>From NBC's Chris Donovan Melissa Etheridge, scheduled to be a panelist at tomorrow's Democratic presidential forum on GLBT issues, is no stranger to the political world.</p>

Mushroom cloud: U.S. intelligence officials tell us there is no evidence indicating North Korea conducted a nuclear test earlier this month. Gay debate: Based on his past comments, it seems certain that Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry will move to lift the military's ban on open homosexuals, if he becomes commander in chief. Beslan lessons: A special-operations source has provided us with a quick appraisal of what went wrong, militarywise, in the Beslan, Russia, school hostage bloodbath. For one, Russian's premiere counterterrorism unit, Alfa, did not arrive on the scene until less than a hour before an explosion touched...