Politics

Wednesday night on "The Rachel Maddow Show," host Rachel Maddow recounted the back and forth verbal sparring between the justices of the Supreme Court at Wednesday's oral arguments about the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the 1996 federal law that defined marriage as being between a man and a woman. Maddow found much to praise in the performance of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who Maddow congratulated on "winning the day" with her insightful arguments on marriage equality.

A former Republican candidate for Agricultural commissioner in Alabama, who once waved a rifle in a campaign ad about "thugs and criminals," said on Thursday that he had been a victim of "conspiracies" after his second shoplifting arrest in six months.

The founder of an organization which advocates for the rights AIDS patients says that a proposed Kansas law which allows HIV people to be quarantined would essentially give cover to religious officials who might want to discriminate against LGBT people.

Looking confused and discouraged on Wednesday's episode of "The 700 Club," televangelist and former Republican presidential candidate Pat Robertson agreed with others who say the issue of marriage equality is not actually about marriage, and suggested the whole noise is just LGBT people who want to flaunt "their way of doing sex" in public.

After attending oral arguments about the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) at the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin came to the conclusion that the federal government's ban on same sex marriage "is in trouble."

If one Nevada lawmaker has his way, visitors to Sin City will soon be able to bet on the next presidential election.

Former Republican National Committee (RNC) chair Michael Steele vented his frustrations toward his successor and former "right hand," Reince Priebus, in a lengthy radio interview on Tuesday, accusing Priebus of feigning innocence over the group's budget issues.

The outraged hosts of Fox News' morning show on Wednesday said that public schools should just "take the religion as it is, celebrate it and move on" after one Alabama school canceled all Easter-themed events.

Former Sen. Larry Pressler (R-SD), a Vietnam veteran who served in Congress for more than two decades, said Tuesday on Current TV that the movement for marriage equality is much like the movement for racial equality, and confidently declared that the Republican Party is now in the process of making the right to marry "the new conservative position."

A Missouri lawmaker said Tuesday she supported protecting LGBT people from discrimination because of her Republican beliefs, not in spite of them.

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on Tuesday concluded that permitting same sex marriage would effectively legalize pedophilia.