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Reason #72,831 why all couples in love should be afforded the right to marry:

Police were called when Roger Gorley refused to leave the bedside of his sick partner, Allen, in a Missouri hospital on Tuesday — cops sided with Allen's family because he and Roger were unmarried.

The cops put Roger in handcuffs, escorted him off the hospital grounds, and even issued a restraining order against him — all because he wanted to be near the man he's been in a civil union with for five years.

Roger and Allen even filled out paperwork legally allowing them to make medical decisions for one another, but none of those documents mattered when Allen's family and the hospital forced Roger to leave.

After being dragged from his lover's bed, Roger sadly admitted:

Tags: civil union, gay, gay gay gay, gay marriage, handcuffs, health, homophobia, hospital, legal matters, missouri, roger gorley, sad sad, same sex marriage

Ugh.

Missouri Rep. Todd Akin, who is not a medical doctor nor a woman, went on the Jaco Report on Sunday to give his very inneresting and ridiculous thoughts on rape and pregnancy.

Whilst discussing the controversial topic of abortion on the St. Louis broadcast, Akin claimed:

"First of all, from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare. If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."

First of all, what constitutes as a "legitimate rape?" Secondly, according to statistics from Journal of American Obstetrics and Gynecology, over 30,000 pregnancies result from rape every year and is something that occurs with "significant frequency."

Apparently, Mr. Akin hasn't read any

Tags: abortion, backpedaling, congressman, jaco report, legitimate rape, missouri, rape, todd akin

Smart move!

In support of a woman's right to choose and Barack Obama's new policy for contraceptive insurance coverage, Missouri's Governor Jay Nixon has vetoed a bill which would have only expanded religious and moral exemptions from insurance policies.

In an explanation that Republican critics call "silly" and "phony," Nixon said:

Tags: abortion, barack obama, bill, birth control, governor, missouri, outrage, republican, selfish, veto

At a Missouri high school, Linda was a senior and prom was approaching… and she was considering not going!

She suffered from cerebral palsy but loved Missouri Football, so her family thought, who better to take her to prom than wide receiver T.J. Moe and quarterback Corbin Berkstresser?

Tags: cerebral palsy, dancing, football, high school, linda, missouri, players, prom, quarterback, school, wide receiver

For one woman who felt like she was taken advantage of by Girls Gone Wild, justice has been served — in the form of a $5.8 million paycheck!

Tamara Favazza sued the maker of the classy Girls Gone Wild Sorority Orgy DVD series in 2010. She claimed that her breasts were shown in one of the installments without her permission because someone lifted her shirt at a St. Louis bar in 2005.

She initially lost

Tags: girls gone wild, joe francis, justice, lawsuit, millions, missouri, permission, st. louis, wild sorority orgy

There's a lot of pressure on you now, North Carolina!

Back in 2009, Obama correctly picked North Carolina to win the NCAA Championship — and this year he has picked them again!

He has North Carolina beating Kentucky, the overall No. 1 seed, in the title game. Ohio State and Missouri are his other Final Four selections.

Do U think he's right??

Who do U have winning the whole thing??

Good luck, Obama! We'll find out soon!

[Image via Wenn.]

Tags: beating, champion, championship, election, game, kentucky, luck, missouri, ncaa, north carolina, obama, ohio, pressure

Get ready, get set, get sick!

Flu season has finally arrived and according to sources, it's pretty late this year! In fact, health officials have deemed this February start the LATEST in 25 years!

People usually start getting under the weather with flu symptoms starting in December or January, but

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