More and more anti-vaxxers are dying of COVID, including one who called people who got the vaccine “idiots.”

Former half-term Governor of Alaska and failed 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has been busy playing Santa Claus in Alabama to a pair of anti-gay congressmen with money from her political action committee Sarah PAC.

Dan Innis’ husband persuaded him to run for the U.S. House.

It didn’t matter that Innis, a former business school dean, faced an aggressive Democratic incumbent, GOP colleagues who oppose his right to marry, and history - no Republican ever has been openly gay when first elected to Congress.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Four of the 17 Republican presidential candidates have pledged to support a federal constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union between one man and one woman, an anti-same-sex marriage group said Tuesday.

DES MOINES, Iowa (CNN) -- The biggest elephant wasn't in the room -- so Ted Cruz stood center stage, taking punches from his opponents and the moderators.

Republicans won a nine-seat majority in the U.S. House in the mid-term elections, and Democrats retained the Senate.

Eight GOP presidential hopefuls are scheduled to take part in this weekend's hate group-sponsored "Free to Believe Nationwide Broadcast," which promises to push for "religious liberty." The broadcast, which will go out to over 160 churches in 50 states, will air on Saturday, January 16.

WASHINGTON - Illinois Rep. Aaron Schock, a rising Republican star already facing an ethics inquiry, has spent taxpayer and campaign funds on flights aboard private planes owned by some of his key donors, The Associated Press has found. There also have been other expensive travel and entertainment charges, including for a massage company and music concerts.

LOS ANGELES -- Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler is asking Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to stop using the power ballad "Dream On" at campaign events.

MARICOPA, Ariz. (AP) - A member of the Ak-Chin Indian Community in a same-sex marriage is suing the tribe to recognize the union.

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) - Former U.S. Sen. Alan Simpson is starring in a same-sex marriage commercial in Wyoming and other western states.

An Alabama gay rights group and local realtors have accused Rep. Mike Rogers of making homophobic groups while speaking to a realtors group in Montgomery on Jan. 23.

Marco Rubio emerged unscathed. Ben Carson defended his integrity. Donald Trump flashed his dominant personality. And Jeb Bush avoided disaster.

WASHINGTON (AP) - For Scott Walker, it wasn't one thing that led to the demise of his presidential campaign. It was just about everything.

The commission meeting of Sept. 22 has been rescheduled for Sept. 21 at 6:30 p.m. in the Commission Chambers, 2020 Wilton Drive.

Famed Las Vegas bookie Jimmy Vaccaro isn't putting his money on anti-gay candidates Ted Cruz, Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal and Rick Santorum to win the 2015 GOP nomination for president.

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum's campaign schedule is on hold, according to the director of his South Carolina campaign.

Republican presidential contender Ben Carson has maintained a business relationship with a close friend convicted of defrauding insurance companies and testified on his behalf, even as the candidate has called for such crimes to be punished harshly.

WASHINGTON -- Republican presidential contenders let fly with some inaccuracies when they badmouthed the Obama administration on health care, military readiness and pay for construction workers in their latest debate.

WASHINGTON -- Ben Carson pitched a tax plan with numbers that didn't add up. Donald Trump boasted that he's paying his own way in the campaign, but he isn't. Chris Christie accused the government of stealing Social Security money that it has actually borrowed - and has been paying back with interest.

On the same night when Donald Trump hosted Saturday Night Live, one of the show’s alums was in South Florida performing a stand-up routine in front of a packed house.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (CNN) -- As Donald Trump and Ted Cruz battled for evangelical voters across Iowa Sunday, Cruz's star surrogate, Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson, made a forceful case to voters that the Texas senator could restore the U.S. to biblical principles and called gay marriage "evil" and "wicked."

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Court of Appeals affirmed a ruling that a Portland bar owner must pay about $400,000 in damages to patrons he told to stay away.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Ben Carson's new campaign chairman, retired Major Gen. Robert F. Dees, says it's time for the U.S. to reevaluate military policies like letting women serve in combat positions and allowing openly gay troops to serve.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Ben Carson said Sunday Muslims seeking public office must first renounce some central tenets of Islam. Otherwise, Carson said, "Why in fact would you take that chance?"

Retired neurosurgeon and 2016 GOP presidential hopeful Ben Carson continued his history of public anti-LGBT statements last week when he suggested re-implementing "Don't Ask Don't Tell" and slammed President Barack Obama's policy to allow transgender service members to to serve openly in the military, NBC News reports.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Ben Carson says homosexuality is a choice because many people "go into prison straight -- and when they come out, they're gay."

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- For the first time in months, Ben Carson on Tuesday was on top in a newly-released national poll.

But not all candidates came out on top

Potential 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is a staunch supporter of LGBT rights. But according to audio Tuncovered by the Washington Free Beacon, this may have not always been the case.