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The President comes out for same-sex marraige in the wake of the passage of the nasty Amendment One in North Carolina. Our first social media President sets a retweet record. Is Bristol Palin the face of the new millennial generation or are Malia and Sasha Obama more likely to influence? These stories and more are "evolving" - and they're what people are talking about online this week. 
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Randy Roberts Potts, the gay grandson of preacher Oral Roberts, draws an interesting parallel between the death yesterday of children's book author Maurice Sendak (a gay man, who lived with his partner for 50 years) and the passing of the anti-gay marriage ban, Amendment One, in North Carolina.
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You probably already knew this. But we thought maybe this election year would be different. Especially since Mitt Romney recently hired an openly gay foreign-policy spokesman. One week later, the gay spokesman has resigned "in the wake of a full-court press by anti-gay conserveratives."
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In following up two major stories that have have generated huge online conversations this month - birth control availability and gay rights, a New York Times/CBS News poll finds majority support for both and strong lean to keep social issues out of this year's presidential race.
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In a nod to a dramatic shift in public opinion, Barack Obama on Wednesday became the first sitting president to announce his support for same-sex marriage.
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Vice President Joe Biden gave a nod to same-sex marriage on "Meet the Press" last Sunday and credited the TV show "Will & Grace" for changing public opinion. Said Biden, "I think 'Will & Grace' probably did more to educate the American public than almost anybody's ever done so far." Stars of the show (which went off the eair in 2006), Eric McCormack (Will) and Debra Messing (Grace) both took to Twitter to tweet their approval. Guess the Veep still watches the reruns.
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Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich are aligned with one of the most prominent groups fighting against same-sex marriage - the National Organization for Marriage (NOM). Last week an internal memo revelaed the group's plans to pit blacks against gays, manipulate Hispanic voters by making the exclusion of gay people from marriage “a key badge of Latino identity," and paint President Obama as a "social radical."
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