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    Gay marriage is all about love. The love of same-sex couples is just as real, strong and committed as that of married heterosexual men and women. Prohibiting same-sex marriage devalues and denigrates the love of lesbian and gay partners. It signifies our continuing second class legal status; to have separate laws for gay and straight people is a form of sexual apartheid.
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    Public support for gay marriage is double the support secured by the Tories in last week’s local elections. If Cameron wants to win back lost votes, he should fast-track legislation for equal marriage rights.

    As Obama joins a global trend towards gay marriage, the UK should too -

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    President Barack Obama formally welcomed the British prime minister and his wife to the US yesterday with full military honours, including a 19-gun salute, followed by a celebrity-studded dinner Chip Somodevilla

    President Barack Obama formally welcomed the British prime minister and his wife to the US yesterday with full military honours, including a 19-gun salute, followed by a celebrity-studded dinner
    Chip Somodevilla

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    Michelle Obama and Samantha Cameron attend mini-Olympics US first lady Michelle Obama and the prime minister’s wife Samantha Cameron attend a mini-Olympics event for children at American University’s Bender Arena in Washington

    Michelle Obama and Samantha Cameron attend mini-Olympics

    US first lady Michelle Obama and the prime minister’s wife Samantha Cameron attend a mini-Olympics event for children at American University’s Bender Arena in Washington

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    How Fox News is helping Barack Obama's re-election bid

    Jonathan Freedland writes for Comment is Free:

    By any normal standards, Obama should be extremely vulnerable. Not only is the economy in bad shape, he has proved to be a much more hesitant, less commanding White House presence than his supporters longed for. And yet, most surveys put him comfortably ahead of his would-be rivals. That’s not a positive judgment on the president – whose approval rating stands at a meagre 44% – but an indictment of the dire quality of a Republican field almost comically packed with the scandal-plagued, gaffe-prone and downright flaky. And the finger of blame for this state of affairs points squarely at the studios of Fox News.

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