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GOP House Speaker John Boehner said radio talkshow host Rush Limbaugh’s calling a student a ’slut’ was ’inappropriate’ for defending government-mandated birth-control for health insurers; President Obama called the Georgetown student.

Charlie Morgan, a member of the New Hampshire National Guard with terminal cancer, traveled to Capitol Hill on Thursday to urge House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act.

A citizens’ group has accused Speaker of the House John Boehner of breaking the law in his zeal to defend an anti-gay law from 1996 in federal court. But a spokesperson for Boehner says that the group is politically motivated.

The Speaker of the House, John Boehner, refused to allow one of his constituents into the Speaker’s Washington, D.C. office. The constituent was a gay military veteran named Sean Watkins.

House Speaker John Boehner says the House counsel will defend the federal ban on gay marriage, now that the Obama administration won’t.