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Fox News chose to ignore the historic passage of marriage equality in Rhode Island, Delaware, and Minnesota, opting instead to promote a handful of asinine horror stories about same-sex marriage.   Fox News viewers are likely unaware that three states – Rhode Island, Delaware, and Minnesota -voted to legalize same-sex marriage over the past three weeks. That’s because Fox News spent a total of one minute covering the stories, according to an Equality Matters analysis : While CNN and MSNBC both covered the developments, Fox News made only three mentions of the passage of marriage equality in Rhode Island, entirely ignoring the new law in Delaware.

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Fox News ignored President Obama’s explicit demand for accountability in the wake of news that the Internal Revenue Service applied extra scrutiny to conservative groups. The network’s omission gave it cover to accuse Obama of not taking the IRS’s actions seriously and to call for a special prosecutor. Obama first addressed the IRS controversy during a May 13 joint  press conference  with British Prime Minister David Cameron, where he condemned the IRS’s behavior with the caveat, “If, in fact, IRS personnel engaged in the kind of practices that had been reported,” then “that’s outrageous and there’s no place for it.

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The National Rifle Association’s Connecticut lobbyist said the state’s new gun laws are “a real shame” and “a disservice to what happened and the children” who were killed in the December 14 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. On April 4, Connecticut Gov

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Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) is the latest Democratic Senator to offer his full support for marriage equality: It is generally accepted in American law and U.S.

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Just moments after claiming to “understand the torture” experienced by transgender people, Fox News’ Megyn Kelly mocked a transgender inmate’s attempt to acquire medically necessary gender reassignment treatment while in prison. During the April 4 edition of America Live , Kelly hosted Fox News legal analyst Mercedes Colwin and former prosecutor Tom Kenniff to discuss a Massachusetts transgender inmate who has successfully sued the state in order to acquire gender reassignment surgery while in prison

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Fox News’ Steve Doocy suggested that Obama look to Texas as a model for economic growth, ignoring the fact that the state’s high job growth doesn’t translate to economic success for many Texans. Texas’ economic problems include a median wage below the national average, one of the largest minimum wage workforces in the country, and the highest rate of adults without health insurance. Fox Suggests Nation Could “Learn From The Lone Star State” On Growth Fox’s Steve Doocy: Texas Has “Certainly” Hit On The Recipe For Success In Economic Recovery

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Fox News’ on-screen text misleadingly identified Rev. Luis Leon as the “Obama pastor” after President Obama attended worship services at Leon’s St. John’s Church, contradicting Fox’s own reporting

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During an appearance on NBC’s Meet The Press Sunday morning, Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) admitted that a Republican presidential candidate who supports marriage equality is “inevitable” and that such a candidate would receive widespread support from across the political spectrum. While Flake’s statement is reflective of rapidly shifting U.S.

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Dr. Benjamin Carson, who has come under heavy criticism in recent days for comparing marriage equality supporters to advocates of bestiality and pedophilia, wrote in his  2012 book  that marriage equality “is a slippery slope with a disastrous ending, as witnessed in the dramatic fall of the Roman Empire.” In a March 26  appearance  on Fox News (where he has recently become a regular fixture), Carson said, “Marriage is between a man and a woman. No group, be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality, it doesn’t matter what they are.

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Rush Limbaugh attacked the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps, as the “buy beer … with a government credit card” despite prohibitions on the purchase of alcohol with program funds

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