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Cheryl Chumley is online opinion editor, commentary writer and host of the “Bold and Blunt” podcast for The Washington Times, and a frequent media guest and public speaker. She is the author of several books, the latest titled, “Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom,” and “Socialists Don’t Sleep: Christians Must Rise or America Will Fall.” Email her at cchumley@washingtontimes.com.

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This undated photo provided by Cari Searcy, Searcy sits with partner Kimberly McKean, right, and their 8-year-old son Khaya at their home in Mobile, Ala. Searcy and McKean filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday seeking to force the state to recognize their out-of-state marriage so they can both be legal parents to their 8-year-old son. The suit contends that Alabama's ban on same-sex marriage and refusal to recognize such marriages from other states violates the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Cari Searcy)

Hallmark’s new Mother’s Day offerings: Cards that speak to lesbian love

Hallmark has branched out a bit with its Mother's Day offerings, bringing on a new batch of greetings aimed directly at the lesbian crowd and the two-mom market.

May 8, 2014

A Chick-fil-A fast-food restaurant in Atlanta is seen here on July 19, 2012. (Associated Press) **FILE**

New York gays with taste for Chick-fil-A face quandary: To eat or not to eat?

Chick-fil-A is expanding with gusto into the New York City market, and that leaves gays and gay activists in the area facing quite a quandary that pits their principles — their opposition to CEO Dan Cathy's publicly expressed biblically based views of homosexuality — against their tastebuds.

May 8, 2014

Israel rescue teams save 70 U.S. tourists stranded in desert downpour

For dozens of U.S. tourists stranded in an unusually heavy rainfall in the Negev desert, it was Israel to the rescue.

May 8, 2014

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Michele Bachmann votes no on ‘radical feminist’ museum near National Mall

Rep. Michele Bachmann was only one of two female congressional members — the other was Rep. Vicky Hartzler — to vote no on a proposal to build a new women's history museum near the National Mall.

May 8, 2014

Michelle Obama’s hashtag help sign for Nigerian girls irks Twitter critics

First lady Michelle Obama unveiled a new weapon in the White House's effort to secure the release of more than 200 girls kidnapped by terrorists in Nigeria — a Twitter hashtag and a photograph of herself holding a sign and wearing a sad face.

May 8, 2014

** FILE ** This Feb. 20, 2011, file photo shows freshman at the University of Montana, from left, Jake Coburn, Stephanie Ralls and Claire Dal Nogare, visiting a statue of Jesus Christ at Whitefish Mountain Resort Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011, in Whitefish, Mont. An atheist group has filed a lawsuit demanding the removal of this mountaintop Jesus statue on federal land in northwestern Montana after the U.S. Forest Service reversed itself amid an outcry and said the statue could stay. (AP Photo/Missoulian, Linda Thompson, File)

Jesus statue on Montana ski hill sparks state fight with atheists

Montana's attorney general is digging in and says the state will not back down in a fight with atheists that's winding through the courts over a 6-foot-tall Jesus statue that has stood at the Whitefish Mountain Resort for decades.

May 8, 2014

** FILE ** In this Dec. 17, 2013 file photo, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Ted Cruz releases 76-item list of ‘lawless’ Obama actions

Sen. Ted Cruz released a list that details 76 different ways President Obama and his administration have committed "lawless" actions: "The Legal Limit Report No. 4: The Obama Administration's Abuse of Power."

May 8, 2014

** FILE ** The University of Connecticut's new mascot, Jonathan XIV, a 3-month-old Siberian Husky, is introduced at a UConn Board of Trustees meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, in Storrs, Conn. (AP Photo/Pat Eaton-Robb)

UConn sorority suspended for making pledges act ‘like animals,’ ‘like bacon’

A sorority at UConn, Kappa Kappa Gamma, was given notice of suspension over hazing incidents that included vast amounts of alcohol and what campus administrators deemed was the humiliating treatment of pledges.

May 8, 2014

Less than 3 percent of the U.S. adult population says they are gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender, says a new federal survey of nearly 34,000 people. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi)

HUD sets sights on uncovering housing discrimination against LGBTs

The Department of Housing and Urban Development announced it will research whether members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community are being discriminated against when seeking to rent apartments.

May 7, 2014

** FILE ** U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm speaks at a news conference in a park next to federal court, Monday, April 28, 2014, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The Staten Island Republican was arrested earlier in the day and pleaded not guilty to a 20-count federal indictment that includes charges of mail fraud, wire fraud and tax fraud. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Indicted Rep. Michael Grimm: I’m ‘one of the luckiest members of Congress’

New York Rep. Michael Grimm may be facing federal indictment — but he's feeling lucky.

May 7, 2014

Nude ‘Virgin Mother’ statue with blood-red flesh sparks outrage on Long Island

A nude bronze statue of a pregnant woman that stands 33-feet high has Long Island villagers up in arms, even though the artist claims the structure is a rendering of "The Virgin Mother."

May 7, 2014

** FILE ** In this Dec. 17, 2013, file photo, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

U.C. professor orders ‘Ted Cruz-supporting tea [expletive]’ from class, student says

A University of California Santa Barbara student has just come forward and said her professor of black studies made it more than clear on opening day of class: No Ted Cruz-type supporters allowed.

May 7, 2014

Washington Nationals manager Matt Williams walks back to the dugout after removing pitcher Gio Gonzalez from the mound in the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies, Sunday, May 4, 2014, in Philadelphia. The Phillies won 1-0. (AP Photo/Laurence Kesterson)

Nats skipper Matt Williams gives real-time radio relay of hit-and-run accident

Washington Nationals manager Matt Williams was in the middle of giving his weekly interview on a local sports radio show — apparently, while he was driving — when he was struck from behind by another vehicle.

May 7, 2014

**FILE** Hikers walk on new steps at a viewing area at Yosemite National Park in California on Oct. 20, 2008. (Associated Press)

Feds can’t charge fees to hikers in national parks, judge rules

The U.S. Forest Service was wrong for charging fees to four park visitors who wanted to hike publicly owned land in Southern California but not use the park facilities, a U.S. District Court Judge has ruled.

May 7, 2014

** FILE ** In this May 8, 2013, file photo, Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., questions a witness during the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's hearing on Benghazi on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Trey Gowdy threatened with harm; Capitol Police kick off ‘active, open investigation’

Capitol Hill police are investigating emailed threats to Rep. Trey Gowdy, the South Carolina congressman tabbed to head a special panel to probe the White House's response to the Benghazi terrorist attacks.

May 7, 2014

FILE - In this July 11, 2001, file photo, Monica Lewinsky arrives for a special screening of &quot;The Score&quot; in New York. Lewinsky says there's no question her boss, Bill Clinton, &quot;took advantage&quot; of her when he was president. But if there was any abuse in their affair, she says, it came afterward, when Clinton's inner circle tried to discredit her and his opponents used her as a pawn. The former White House intern, now 40, writes about her life in the next issue of Vanity Fair magazine, out in May 2014. In released excerpts, she says she's perhaps the first Internet scapegoat and wants to speak out on behalf of other victims of online humiliation.(AP Photo/Darla Khazei, File)

Lynne Cheney: Hillary Clinton prodded Monica Lewinsky essay to light

Lynne Cheney said it's more likely than not that Hillary Clinton herself was the prodding force behind Monica Lewinsky telling her side of the Bill Clinton affair in a penned Vanity Fair essay.

May 7, 2014

FILE - In this March 26, 2014, file photo, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell answers questions during a news conference at the NFL football annual meeting in Orlando, Fla. Goodell told a gathering of Associated Press Sports Editors on Thursday, April 24, 2014, that a vote is uncertain on the proposal to add two teams to the postseason. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

NFL Roger Goodell’s ‘#AskCommish’ Q&A takes turn to the comical

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell's good intentions no doubt ran awry this week, after he took to Twitter to address serious fan questions via a proffered "#AskCommish" handle -- and found that many weren't quite so somber as he would have liked.

May 7, 2014

** FILE ** Women dressed as a revolutionary Zacapoaztla Indian soldiers dance during a re-enactment of the battle of Puebla between the Zacapoaztlas Indians and French army at the Cinco de Mayo celebrations, in Mexico City, Monday May 5, 2014. Cinco de Mayo commemorates the victory of an ill-equipped Mexican army over French troops in Puebla on May 5, 1862. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

MSNBC faces Hispanic fire for on-air ‘abominable’ Cinco de Mayo stunt

MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts was forced to issue a quick apology for an on-air Cinco de Mayo segment that featured a sombrero-wearing, tequila-swilling correspondent — a stunt seen by at least one Hispanic group as downright discriminatory.

May 7, 2014

Gina McCarthy (Associated Press)

Fed investigator accuses EPA top dogs of running ‘rogue enforcement’ unit

The inspector general for the Environmental Protection Agency is due to testify before a House oversight committee on Wednesday and tell congressional members: The EPA has gone rogue and has been operating a secret enforcement unit.

May 7, 2014

FBI agent arrested in Pakistan for weapons charge at airport

An FBI agent who tried to board a Pakistan International Airlines flight in Karachi was detained by airport police and taken to court, accused of violating the country's anti-terrorism laws.

May 7, 2014