Jennifer Roback Morse, an economist, rejects the notion that increasing support for homosexual marriage among young people means that its legalization is somehow inevitable.

A recent Pew survey found that 70 percent of those in the millennial generation (ages 18 to 33) favor same-sex marriage. But the same poll shows that 65 percent of young evangelicals oppose same-sex marriage.

Freshwater taught for 20 years before the school board accused him of teaching Christian beliefs in class during discussions of evolution and homosexuality.

DOMA does not forbid states from approving same-sex “marriage,” but it prevents the federal government from recognizing those unions.

In the early 1960s no one in Americus, Ga., would have guessed that 10 miles up the road in Plains a peanut farmer was destined to become president of the United States. Nor would they have cared.