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Littwin: If the latest Trump Jr.-Russia story is not quite a...

This may be, as the kids say, when everything just got real, even as the Trump-Russia story grows increasingly unreal. On three consecutive days, The...

Catholic group drops child programs as civil unions take effect in...

This past spring, debate in Colorado over a same-sex civil unions bill raised questions about citizen equality, child and family protections, religious freedom and anti-gay bigotry. News coming out of Illinois, where a civil unions bill that passed in the fall is now taking effect, resurfaces those same issues. Catholic Charities of Rockford, a city just northwest of Chicago, announced it would no longer provide its state-funded foster care and adoption services. Organization representatives said they would not place children with unmarried couples and that the law now exposed them to litigation for that stand.

Senate OKs Second-Parent Adoption Bill

The Colorado Senate today gave a preliminary OK today to HB 1330, a bill that would allow second-parent adoption. The Rocky Mountain News has...

Gay Parents Exist, Legal Rights or Not

Barbara Lavender knows gay couples can provide supportive, loving homes for their children. She also knows these families are even more stable when both...

Gay Couples Could Adopt Under New Bill

A new bill introduced in the state House of Representatives would allow gay and other unmarried couples to adopt children together. More after the...