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After their son was killed in battle in Afghanistan, Lori and Jeff Wilfahrt crisscrossed their home state of Minnesota. They spoke at churches, schools, book clubs. They spoke of Cpl. Andrew Wilfahrt's love of country and the Constitution. They spoke, too, of grief. They are a mother and father who utterly miss their son, a soldier who was openly gay. On Tuesday, November 6, the Wilfahrts entered their polling station in Rosemount to vote against a state constitutional amendment defining marriage as solely between a man and woman. Both parents wondered: Had their boy died protecting homophobes who would deny him rights back home?
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Should David Petraeus -- or anyone, for that matter -- lose his job over marital infidelity? Four experts weigh in.
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