Indiana University Comes Out in Favor of Gay Marriage

Among Indiana's higher-education institutions, the move is unprecedented to join Freedom Indiana, a bipartisan collective of business and organizational leaders, in the plan to thwart the passage of an amendment banning gay marriage statewide.
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Councilman Zach Adamson’s Wedding Bells Will Ring out a Political Statement

City-county councilman Zach Adamson and partner Christian Mosburg flew to Washington D.C. today, only partly by choice: The two can’t tie the knot in their home state, so they’re going where same-sex marriages are legally recognized.
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The New Hoosier Farmer: Is Kind of a Big Deal

Having a 20,000-acre spread, one of the largest farms in one of the nation’s most productive farm states, buys some clout.
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu Illuminates Clowes Hall

His words were perhaps revelatory on the subject of inclusion—by God and by fellow humans—of all people, regardless of race, socio-economic status, religion, and even sexual orientation.

The Weirdest Result of Hoosier Woman's Anthony Weiner Scandal

The fallout from one Indiana resident's newly publicized relationship with the beleaguered politico has reached a bizarre level.

Gov. Pence: Staffers Shouldn't Have Deleted Facebook Comments

Facebook users who disagreed with Pence's position on same-sex marriage angrily assailed him with their own original posts via that social-media channel.
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Postscript: Marilyn Schultz Opens Her Hate Mail

In her records, she found a single manila folder containing a dozen unopened letters, postmarked nearly 40 years earlier, that she had long forgotten. ... “Women of my generation were told to go to college and get your ‘MRS’ degree. It’s hard [for young people] to understand how radical it was to think a woman could be a doctor, a lawyer, or a legislator.'"
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What I Know: Coby Palmer

Best known as one of Indy's top florists, he helped bring the city's LGBT festival out of the closet.

Indiana Sen. Donnelly Comes Out in Favor of Gay Marriage

Previously both a fiscal and social conservative, Donnelly now expresses the belief that supporting same-sex marriage is "the right thing to do."
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Learning Curve: A Range of Hoosiers Weigh In on Glenda Ritz

With all the noise surrounding new Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz, will her agenda of slowing down reforms advance? Or is her voice—and those of her supporters—bound to get drowned out?