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News Round-Up: February 22, 2016

Duck Dynasty reality star Phil Robertson

Some news stories you may have missed:

• GOP White House hopeful Ted Cruz thinks anti-gay Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson would make a great U.N. Ambassador due to the “joy” he speaks. Really? Joy?

• Democratic Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, who is not up for reelection until 2018, announces she has breast cancer.

• Ted Cruz fired his campaign’s social media guy, Rick Tyler, for posting a false report that Marco Rubio had mocked the bible.

• The latest “dump” of emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shows she took an early, tough stance against anti-gay laws in Africa.

• South Carolina is reporting lots of absentee ballots – like 20,000 – coming in ahead of the Democratic primary.

• New Kids On The Block and CBS’ Blue Bloods star Donnie Wahlberg endorses Marco Rubio, who has promised to repeal same-sex marriage. Did I mention Donnie’s bandmate Jonathan Knight is gay and married? #Awkward

New Kids On The Block’s Jonathan Knight (L) and Donnie Wahlberg (R)
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Missouri: Sen. Claire McCaskill supports marriage equality

This past weekend, Sen. Claire McCaskill expressed her full support for marriage equality:

“I have come to the conclusion that our government should not limit the right to marry based on who you love,” McCaskill wrote on Tumblr. “While churches should never be required to conduct marriages outside of their religious beliefs, neither should the government tell people who they have a right to marry.”

McCaskill joins a number of other prominent Democrats who have endorsed same-sex marriage; just last Monday, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said she supported gay marriage, fueling speculation she would run for president in 2016.

McCaskill’s announcement comes two days before the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments in the first of two cases on gay marriage.