ANNAPOLIS – Same-sex marriage opponents counted African-American voters among their allies leading up to November’s election, expecting them to help overturn legislation allowing same-sex couples to marry in Maryland. Polls in the months prior to November’s referendum on same-sex marriage seemed to back them up, with African-Americans showing less support than whites. But as the […]
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Group of Catholics Petitions Bishops, Urges Less Political Involvement and More Work With the Poor
A handful of Christians from the Baltimore region stood in the rain to hand a petition of 25,000 signatures to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Tuesday morning, protesting the bishops’ recent political involvement and what they say is a lack of focus on the poor. The petition reads: “The election results prove that the […]
