Sunday News columnist Gil Smart on Bristol Palin's interview with Fox News' Greta van Susteren.  In the interview, Palin tells Van Susteren that abstinence just "isn't realistic" and that premarital sex is now more commonly accepted among "kids her age."...

State Sen. Mike Brubaker's marriage amendment bill is dead — at least for now.The controversial bill that calls for an amendment to the state's constitution defining marriage as being between a man and a woman was tabled indefinitely by the state Senate Tuesday, before that b......

The state Senate is poised to vote today on a proposed amendment to the state Constitution that would exclusively define marriage as a union between a man and a woman.The Senate Appropriations Committee, chaired by Republican state Sen. Gibson Armstrong of Refton, passed the proposed amend......

The state Senate Appropriations Committee hosted a contentious meeting Tuesday morning as advocates and opponents fought over a proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriages.The amendment, authored by Sen. Michael W. Brubaker, a Lititz-area Republican, recognizes only man-woman unions ......

The week after state Sen. Mike Brubaker introduced legislation to limit marriage in Pennsylvania to unions of one man and one woman, he spoke to elementary school students about the importance of tolerance and acceptance of differences.Some might see irony there, but Brubaker doesn't....

Last month, the highest court in the Presbyterian Church (USA) reaffirmed the church's stance that clergy and candidates for clergy cannot have sex unless they are in a heterosexual marriage.Local Presbyterian clergy generally agreed that the court's ruling — the latest ......

People began to realize something was wrong in the 1980s, when gay men all over the nation started coming home to die.Some described the disease as a new kind of plague, while others went as far as to claim it was a punishment from God.Almost 30 years later, AIDS has claimed more th......

It seemed like the perfect life. Dad was a member of his neighborhood United Church of Christ clergy, and mom was a teacher in her local school district.The wholesome image was shattered, however, when their daughter told them she was a lesbian, causing them to begin questioning their fait......

There was more than a little schadenfreude on this side of the fence because Haggard had spouted the usual fundamentalist line on homosexuality. A movie called “Jesus Camp” caught him saying, “We don’t have to debate about what we should think about homosexual activity. It’s written in the Bible.” B...

That makes sense, I suppose, though I wouldn’t have pegged Rep. Scott Boyd, chief sponsor of the bill to amend the Pennsylvania Constitution, as the type of guy to head up this particular parade. But I suppose that if you’ve been elected to office in Lancaster County, you need to remember which side...

It’s important to remember that marriage is, in its basic form, a legal commitment two people make. Many choose to mark that legality with a religious ceremony, but marriage is not a religious contract in and of itself. If it were then shouldn’t these opponents of same sex marriages be just as outra...

So there's this gay couple that lives in the neighborhood. Well, I don't really know for a fact that they're gay; it's not like I've ever asked them, or seen them embracing in the street or anything. It's just that ... ah ...

Never mind.

Anyway. I often see them out walking their two l...

Michael Geer, an Elizabethtown resident and president of the Pennsylvania Family Institute, called the ruling "very troubling'' and predicted "the institution of marriage has the great potential of being undermined.''

On the other hand, Laura Montgomery Rutt of the Alliance for Tolerance ...