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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attorney General Loretta Lynch says the government will make federal marriage benefits available to same-sex couples following a Supreme Court decision last month that legalized same-sex marriage. She says the Justice Department will work to make sure that all federal benefits will be available equally to married couples across the country.

It's impossible to overestimate the damage that will be done to our constitutional republic if Justice Anthony Kennedy imposes homosexual marriage on the entire nation in blatant defiance of the express will of the people. The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide the issue of whether states can be compelled, against the will of the people and their elected representatives, to accept sodomy-based marriage. Voters in 31 states went to the polls to enshrine natural marriage in their state constitutions. The legislatures in another 13 states passed laws expressly forbidding recognition of homosexual marriages. While legislatures in a small...

Chairman of the Democrat National Committee Howard Dean is supporting Charles Merrill and his same-sex partner Kevin Boyle in their civil disobedience against paying Federal Income Tax because they cannot have the same tax benefits as heterosexual married couples. But unless the two gay activists mention Dean's support and remarks in their statements and press releases, the mainstream news media aren't interested in letting Americans know about the Democrat leadership's position on the issue of gay and lesbian marriage. According to the two gay activists, the momentum for the same-sex marriage tax protest started with a page six article in...